{"id":7743,"date":"2021-12-21T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2023-06-21T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:35:49","slug":"dixit-wraps-up-2021-on-a-high-note-at-small-farm-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/dixit-wraps-up-2021-on-a-high-note-at-small-farm-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixit wraps up 2021 on a high note at Small Farm Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/uploadedImages\/_WEBSITES\/SANS\/News\/TGD-AsianPearTour-081421-3311.1.JPG\" alt=\"Dixit-Pear Day-2021-TD\" title=\"Dixit-Pear Day-2021-TD\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UMES Extension\u2019s Small Farm Conference culminated a productive year of providing extension services for&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Naveen Kumar Dixit<\/strong>.&nbsp; The assistant professor of horticulture and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/Extension\/\">UMES Extension<\/a>&nbsp;specialist is also a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sare.org\/\">Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education<\/a>&nbsp;fellow and the NE-SARE coordinator.&nbsp; As such, he \u201cpromotes different NE-SARE grants to faculty, students and farmers.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the conference last month, Dixit presented a SARE grant writing training session resulting in three farmers applying for its farmer grants relating to honeybees, strawberries, quinoa and exotic fruits.&nbsp; Participants, he said, learned how to design a&nbsp;research&nbsp;problem, prepare a budget and learn what purchases are allowed, or not allowed, from grant money.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGuiding our local farmers and learning from their innovative ideas is a unique opportunity to work together for a common goal to provide safe and healthy food to all,\u201d Dixit said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past year, Dixit conducted training sessions on cultivating apples, pears and Asian vegetables that included three online and in-person workshops in addition to a field day and online cooking class.&nbsp; He also worked with farmers who are military veterans over the course of four face-to-face educational events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will conduct multiple workshops online and face-to-face in the new year,\u201d Dixit said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visit these sites for more information on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/SANS\/Pages\/Agricultural-Production-and-the-Environment\/Horticulture-and-Fruits-Program\/\">UMES Extension\u2019s Horticulture and Fruit Program<\/a>&nbsp;and future U<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/SANS\/News-and-Events\/\">MES Extension events<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/SANS\/Events\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gail Stephens, agricultural communications and media associate, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UMES Extension,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gcstephens@umes.edu\">gcstephens@umes.edu<\/a>, 410-621-3850.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo by Todd Dudek, agricultural communications, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UMES Extension,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:tdudek@umes.edu\">tdudek@umes.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMES Extension\u2019s Small Farm Conference culminated a productive year of providing extension services for&nbsp;Dr. Naveen Kumar Dixit.&nbsp; The assistant professor of horticulture and&nbsp;UMES Extension&nbsp;specialist is also a&nbsp;Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education&nbsp;fellow and the NE-SARE coordinator.&nbsp; As such, he \u201cpromotes different NE-SARE grants to faculty, students and farmers.\u201d&nbsp; At the conference last month, Dixit presented a&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/dixit-wraps-up-2021-on-a-high-note-at-small-farm-conference\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Dixit wraps up 2021 on a high note at Small Farm Conference<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sans-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}