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Saskatchewan Greenhouse Growers AssociationBox 68, Middle Lake, SK S0K 2X0Phone: 306-367-2012 Fax: 306-367-2403Email: [email protected] Website: www.saskgreenhouses.com

I have heard it said that change is the only constant. 2018 will be no exception. There will be new lead-ership in the provincial govern-ment, cannabis will be legal – sort of – and if Amazon’s new store is any indication the entire retail landscape is in for a quantum shift.

The pending legalization of mari-juana alias cannabis is having a big impact on the greenhouse indus-try. Many of you have no doubt re-ceived trade magazines full of ads directed at this new billion dollar segment of our industry. Accord-ing to published information the average grower should harvest 120 grams of cannabis per square foot. According to a CBC report

SGGA President’s Message Fred Gittings

Ontario is considering pricing rec-reational Marijuana at $10 /gram. The times they are a-changing.

Among the new initiatives the SGGA is undertaking this year is a more direct dialog with the provincial government. One of the SGGA’s mandates is to be a voice for the industry to groups such as the Ministry of Agriculture whose actions can have an effect on the health of the greenhouse industry. Issues that could affect the industry include a carbon tax on our heating bills and govern-ment funding that enables the Association to conduct seminars and workshops for its members. Several board members met with Minister Stewart and members of his staff in Saskatoon to brief him on our concerns and bring the im-portance of our industry to his at-tention. This work is ongoing and hopefully will be of benefit to the members of the SGGA.

In closing I hope everyone has a successful spring season and a happy new year.

SGGA Board of Directors .................. 2

Membership benefits ...................... 3

Newsletter Advertising Rates .......... 3

Meet the 2017-18 SGGA Board ........ 4

Cultivate18 ...................................... 5

Using Birds and Bees to Increase

Greenhouse Profit ........................6-8

Meet an SGGA Director .................. 10

On Farm Food Safety ................11-12

2017 SGTC Conference .............13-15

SAVE THE DATES2018 Saskatchewan Green Trades

Conference & Tradeshow will be held

November 8th, 9th & 10th, 2018at the Saskatoon Inn

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Fred GittiNGsPresidentGrandora GardensBox 159, Grandora, SK S0K 1V0ph: [email protected]

GAiL MederNACH Vice President Gail’s GreenhouseBox 118, Cudworth, SK S0K 1B0ph: [email protected]

CHris BuHLerBoard of DirectorFloating GardensBox 580, Osler, SK S0K 3V0ph: [email protected]

MArj HAuBriCH Board of DirectorDreams and Wishes GreenhouseBox 207, Hodgeville, SK S0H 2B0ph: 306-667-2461fax: [email protected]

Louise d. FiLArCzuk Board of DirectorBox 243, Ituna, SK S0A 1N0ph: [email protected]

HeAtHer drYsdALe Board of DirectorCity of Saskatoon Parks Greenhouse1101 Avenue P NorthSaskatoon, SK S7L 7K6ph: [email protected]

SGGA 2017/18 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

sPeNCer MAH Board of DirectorCentral Botanical Growers Ltd.310 Valley RoadPO Box 114, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3J6ph: [email protected]

toM WriGHtAssociate DirectorAllied Trade RepresentativeProfessional Gardener Co. Ltd.Box 15, Beatty, SK S0J 0C0ph: 306-752-4150fax: [email protected]

GLeN sWeetMAN Ministry of AgricultureGreenhouse & Nursery Specialist3085 Albert Street Regina, SK S4S 0B1ph: 306-787-6606fax: [email protected]

jACkie BANtLe Education AdvisorUniversity of Saskatchewan51 Campus Dr. Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8ph: [email protected]

GueNette BAutz Managing DirectorBox 68, Middle Lake, SK S0K 2X0ph: 306-367-2012fax: [email protected]

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Membership Benefits:

On your behalf the SGGA is pleased to represent the greenhouse industry, addressing topics important to your business at the industry and government level. Your membership is important and entitles you

to share your opinion and concerns with the board.

• Access to Tag Discount Program

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• Scholarship Funding

• Copy of Greenhouse Canada magazine

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• Member Discount to Annual Conference and other association programs

• Industry Updates and Networking Opportunities

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Check out the new SGGA website:

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Meet your elected

2017-2018 SGGA

board!LeFt – rouNd to – riGHt:

Jackie, Marj, Heather, Fred, Gail, Louise, Spencer and Chris

(missing Glen and Tom)

In January, directors met with the Honourable Lyle Stewart to discuss important industry topics includ-ing cannabis production, carbon tax and human re-sources.

LeFt to riGHt: Gail Medernach (sGGA Vice-Chair), Honourable Lyle stewart (sask Minister of Agriculture), Chris Buhler (sGGA director) and Marj Haubrich (sGGA director)

The board also had the privilege of meeting with Penny McCall, Executive Director of Crops and Irrigation Branch to discuss the services and support available to the industry through the Sask Ministry of Agriculture.

LeFt to riGHt: Penny McCall (executive director or Crops and irrigation Branch, Ministry of sask Ag), Gail Medernach (sGGA

Vice- Chair), Honourable Lyle stewart (sask Minister of Agriculture), Guenette Bautz (sGGA Managing director), Chris Buhler (sGGA

director) and Marj Haubrich (sGGA director)

Thank You to the Government of Sask for their continued support of the Saskatchewan Greenhouse Industry.


Government LiaisonThe Government of Saskatchewan offers a number of programs that are available to the Greenhouse Industry including: Agriculture Development Fund (ADF), Agriculture Demonstration of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT), Industry Organizational Development Fund (IODF) and Saskatchewan Agri-Value Initiative (SAVI). These programs are designed to support the growth and success of the agriculture industry. In addition a Provincial Greenhouse Specialist is available to assist individual growers and the industry. This Specialist can provide information on new technologies, provide up-to-date production and best management practices and assist in troubleshooting specific greenhouse production issues.

Our Greenhouse Specialist: Glen sweetman Government of Saskatchewan Provincial Specialist, Greenhouse & Nursery Crops Crops and Irrigation Branch, Ministry of Agriculture 125-3085 Albert Street, Regina, SK CANADA S4S 0B1 [email protected] 306-787-6606

Are you interested in attending Cultivate18 in Columbus ohio, usA?

The SGGA would like to connect our members with other members that are planning to attend to create a group travel experience. If you are considering attending, please email the office

[email protected] and we will connect you with other members interested in traveling to attend.

More information on this event can be found by visiting http://cultivate18.org/

Saturday, July 14 - Tuesday, July 17, 2018 saturday, july 14: Professional Development Sessions, Tours, and Workshops (Trade show is closed)

sunday, july 15: Trade show opens; Professional Development Sessions; Morning Jolt! Keynote Block Party

Monday, july 16: Trade show; Professional Development Sessions State of the Industry Keynote Unplugged

tuesday, july 17: Trade Show; Professional Development Sessions

trAde sHoW sCHeduLe Sunday, July 15 | 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday, July 16 | 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 17 | 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.


By Jackie Bantle

Helping your customers feed and house the bees, butterflies and birds in their garden can help your bottom line as a greenhouse grower and/or garden centre.

Bees

With news reports that bees are in danger and songbirds are on the decline, many people are looking for ways to help solve this prob-lem. You can help be a part of the solution, as a greenhouse grower or retail garden centre, by educat-ing yourself, your customers and providing the best resources to your customers.

In general, bees, butterflies and birds love colorful gardens filled with pollen producing flowers and seeds. Bees are especially attract-ed to blue, violet, purple, white and yellow. Bees prefer single flowers or flat flowers rather than double flowered, puffy blooms. Some of the newer flowers avail-able are pollenless and while this may be attractive to some custom-

ers, they provide no food for bees. Heirloom plants tend to have rich amounts of pollen in their flowers.

There are over 800 different spe-cies of bees in Canada. Different bee species have different tongue lengths which require a variety of flower shapes for bees to feed upon. The list of plants that you can grow and sell to gardeners to help feed and attract bees is ex-tensive.

Using the birds and the bees could increase your greenhouse profit

Fruit trees: apples, pears, honeysuckle, sour cherries, Saskatoon, pincherry, chokecherry, High bush cranberry, raspberry, plum

Flowering herbs: thyme, oregano, lavender, mint, catnip, rosemary, borage, chives

Vegetables: pumpkins, cucumbers, melons, peas, flowering broccoli and cabbage, tomatoes, squash

Cotoneaster, Lilacs, Willlow

Alyssum, Rudbeckia Candy tuff, Golden Rod

Joe Pye weed, Yarrow Campanula (Bellflower), Lamb’s Ears

Liatris, Monarda

Milkweed, Crocus Foxglove, Lily Verbena, Snapdragon

Coneflower, Sunflower Sea Holly, Chrysanthemum Dandelion, Larkspur

Monkshood, Columbine Fleabane Cosmos, Daisy, Dahlia

Bugle weed Globe thistle, native thistle Aster, Salvia

Hollyhock, Sedum Baby’s breath Queen Ann’s Lace

Plants to Attract Bees

ButterFLies

Like the bees, many people are concerned about the lack of but-terflies. One of the keys to encour-age and preserve butterflies and moths in the garden is to under-stand their life cycle and be able to correctly identify the adults as well as the instars or immature stages of the insect; which often appear as ugly caterpillars that one would like to eliminate. For example, the spiny elm caterpillar, which can


be a minor pest on willow and as-pen trees turns into the beautiful Mourning Cloak butterfly.

Displaying a ‘Wild About Butter-flies’ poster, available from Canadi-an Wildlife Services (http://cwf-fcf.org/en/resources/printed-materi-als/posters/butterflies_resource.html) is a good place to start ed-ucating your customers and get them excited about new plants possibilities.

Providing the opportunity for your customers to purchase a good insect identification book is not only a sales opportunity for you but it will assist your customers in identifying the ‘good bugs’ from the ‘bad bugs’ at home. Garden Bugs of Alberta by Ken Fry, Doug Macaulay and Dong Williamson; The Prairie Gardener’s Book of Bugs by Nora Bryan and Ruth Staal and Manitoba Butterflies: A Field Guide by Simone Hébert Allard are all excellent resource materials for the Prairie Gardener.

After you customer has purchased their insect identification book, you will be able to sell your cus-tomers the appropriate plants to attract those beautiful butterflies to their yard. specific plants that will attract butterflies include:• Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)• Azalea• Bee Balm (Monarda didyma and sp.)• Butterfly bush• Butterfly weed (Asclepias tu-

berosa)• Cardinal flowers (Lobelia

cardinalis)• Clematis• Columbine• Coral Bells (Heuchera sp.)• Delphinium• Dianthus• Foxglove (Digitalis sp.)• Fuchscia spp.• Lilac• Monarda (see Bee Balm)• Penstemon• Phlox• Salvia• Scarlet trumpet honeysuckle

(Lonicera sempervirens)• Snapdragon

• Speedwell (Veronica)• Spiderwort (Tradescantia)• Turk’s Cap Lily (Lilium superbum)

Plants to attract specific butterflies:• Anise Swallowtail (Papilio

zelicaon) Sweet Fennel, Lomatium, Citrus

• Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) - Parsley, Green Fennel, Dill and Rue.

• Cabbage Whites (Pieris rapae) -Cabbage, Radish, Mustard, Peppergrass, and related plants (The question here should be; do we WANT to attract cabbage butterflies to our yard??!)

• Checkered skipper (Pyrgus communis) Mallow, hollyhock

• Checkered white (Pontia protodice) Mustard family

• Clouded sulfur (Colias philodice) Alfalfa, clover

• Common Hairstreak (Hypolycaena philippus) Mallow family , hollyhock , rose and marsh mallows

• Monarch (Danaus plexippus) Milkweed sp.

• Mourning cloak (Nymphalis antiopa) Willow, aspen, cottonwood, elm

• Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) Thistle, hollyhock, sunflower

• Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) Nettle, false nettle, pellitory

• Two-tailed Swallowtail (Papilio multicaudata) Green ash, chokecherry

• Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) Passifloras, pansy

• Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus) Willow, cottonwood, chokecherry

joe Pye weed and ornamental thistle attracts bees and butterflies


Nectar sources for Butterflies• Asclepias sp. (Milkweed, butter-

fly weed, etc.) for Swallowtails, Monarchs, Hairstreaks and more.

• Aster, Buddleja (Butterfly bush), Echinacea (Coneflower), Lilac, Marigold, Ornamental thistles, Sunflower, Sweet pea, Verbena, Zinnia

Butterflies are near sighted and are more attracted to stands of a particular color. Adult butterflies searching for nectar are particu-larly attracted to red, orange, yel-low, purple and pink blossoms, flat-topped flowers and short flower tubes. An area of plants which flower at the same time will be more appealing to butterflies than a lone plant with few flowers, ie. encourage your customers to buy multiples of butterfly attrac-tive flowers rather than just one or two plants.

Birds

Many gardeners are also bird lov-ers; especially song birds. Like all living creatures, birds need food. Food for birds can come from plants, fruit, seeds and insects. If you sell fruit trees at your green-house/garden centre, emphasize the importance of fruit trees like; small crabapples, Saskatoon ber-ry, high bush cranberry, haskap or blue honeysuckle, pincherry, mountain ash, chokecherry, dog-wood, hawthorn and hackberry as a food source for birds in your customer’s garden.

Flowers that will produce seed in the summer can be a food source for birds in the winter. Plants such as: coneflower, sunflower, sedums, daisies, zinnias, golden rod, aster, echinaceae, rudbeckia, coreop-sis, blazing star, native and non-native grasses that produce seed (ex. switchgrass, ‘Karl Foerster’, Indian grass, Little Blue Stem, Prai-rie Dropseed, Side Oats Gramma) all produce edible seed which is available during the winter.

Birds need a place to nest and live. If you are selling trees and shrubs, let your customers know which trees are good for homes for cer-tain birds. Robins, Cedar Wax-wings and Chipping Sparrows are some of the birds that will next in small trees like dense ornamental cedars, junipers and similar trees. Large spruce trees may attract crows and grackles and later Mer-lins to the abandoned crow nest. When trees become large enough, woodpeckers or nuthatches may excavate nest holes. These holes may be used later by Black-capped Chickadees.

If you are not interested in selling trees, then perhaps your green-house/garden centre could start carrying a variety of bird houses for your feathered friends. If you educate yourself on the correct bird house to attract certain birds, your customers will thank you by coming back to purchase the bird seed that you also decided to sell.

Did you know that one of the main killers of song birds is also a big friend of many gardeners? The family cat! Set up a box of bells at the check-out counter. Encour-age your customers to purchase a bell that can be tied around their cat’s neck to warn birds of the ap-proaching predator.

Whether it’s a bee, a butterfly or a bird, every living thing needs water. Complete your customer’s bee, bird and butterfly friendly garden by providing the perfect water source/bath for each crea-ture. Bees require a clean, shallow water source. ‘Rock islands’ in a bird bath where bees can land and sip water from the side work well


as long as water is refreshed daily.

Small birds prefer only about ½” of water while larger birds prefer 2” deep. Very shallow bird baths or even a small dish of water in the garden will also be inviting to but-terflies. Damp gravel or wet sand provides a mineral lick for butter-flies which can provide fluids and minerals.

Bird feeders are an excellent way to attract birds. Do some research and make sure you are supplying the correct bird seed for the bird you want to attract. Don’t waste your customer’s time and effort by selling them cheap birdseed that is full of filler seed that birds won’t eat. The filler only attracts rodents.

What about hummingbirds?Hummingbirds need nectar rich plants and water. The ruby-throat-ed hummingbird is the only one found regularly on the Prairies. Its arrival in spring coincides with the blooming of certain nectar-producing plants with which it has coevolved over the millennia. Nectar plants provide a high-ener-gy food source for these tiny crea-tures who can produce up to 200 wing strokes per second. Recom-mended plants for hummingbirds include: tubular flowers like nico-tiana and petunia, monarda/bee balm, red columbine, delphinium, hollyhock, butterfly bush, cardinal vine, lantana, phlox, coral bells, impatients, gladiolas, gaillardia, foxglove, canna lily, dahlia, lanta-

na, honeysuckle (vine and bush), begonia and fuschia. Provide hummingbird feeders for custom-ers to purchase. The feeders will help attract hummingbirds to the yard while the flowers will keep the hummingbirds coming back.

When you started your green-house operation, did you ever imagine that educating the pub-lic about the ‘birds and the bees’ could possibly increase your sales? Maybe this will just be the begin-ning of stepping outside the box to diversify your business and ex-pand your horizons.


LOUISE FILARCZUK

Meet an SGGA Director

Welcome fellow producers – I am Louise Filarczuk from Ituna Green-house in Ituna, which is 30 min-utes west of Melville. I am a sec-ond year member of your board. My greenhouse covers 4500 sq ft area over two separate houses providing bedding plants from A(allysum) to Z(zinnia) and numer-ous hanging pots to the local area. I am going into my fourth growing season but the greenhouse has been a staple in Ituna for eigh-teen years, before that as Lewko Greenhouse. I start in March end-ing in June. I have several ladies in town that help with transplanting in spring. I have had several work experience students from the lo-cal high school put in their hours needed for work career class. Spe-cial thing I do is bring several resi-

dents from the local nursing home out to play in the soil. These resi-dents all had flowers when they lived at home and this reminds them of their past life. I sell my products out of the greenhouse and at the Fort Qu’Appelle farm-ers market. This year I am looking to include succulents throughout the year, attending Yorkton farm-ers market and working with the green club at the school to look after the flowers throughout the town.

My husband Dennis and children Jonathan 14, Jodi 12 and Jeremy 8 all have their part to do. Besides the greenhouse I help my husband grain farm with his family and my mom and brothers who cattle and grain farm. I work part-time at the

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local nursing home in the kitchen. Winter months you will find me working at Mission Ridge Winter Park as a ski instructor. I volun-teer with the fire department as a firefighter, public education and training officer and medical first responder with our ambulance service. Coaching soccer and vol-leyball allows me to spend time with my kids and their friends. My boys are busy with hockey, foot-ball and snowboarding and my daughter with band and dance.

I wanted to join the board to learn more about the greenhouse in-dustry as before this I knew very little about flowers I did grow gar-den veggies for years before this.

Take advantage of the numerous training sessions and attend the Green Trade Conference in the fall to help to expand our industry. Get involved. Any questions, con-tact your board.


- Greenhouse Operators - Market Garden Owners

ON FARM FOOD SAFETY

Who should attend the workshop?

Is this workshop for you?

Overview of CanadaGAP®

What is Program Certification?

http://www.canadagap.ca

If you grow food products and sell to consumers or other growers who sell to consumers then this workshop is a must

for you. Learn what needs to be done to become certified and learn how to protect yourself and your customers.

CanadaGAP® is a food safety program for companies that produce, handle and broker fruits and vegetables. The program has received full Canadian Government Recognition, and is designed to help implement and maintain effective food safety procedures within fresh produce operations. Two manuals, one specific to greenhouse operations, the second for other fruit and vegetable operations, have been developed by the horticultural industry and reviewed for technical soundness by Canadian government officials. The manuals are designed for companies implementing Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) in their production, packing and storage operations,

and for repackers and wholesalers implementing Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and HACCP programs. The program is also designed for fresh produce brokers implementing best practices in supplier management and product traceability. The manuals are based on a rigorous hazard analysis applying the seven principles of the internationally-recognized HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) approach. The program is benchmarked to and officially recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). Audit and certification services for the program are delivered by accredited Certification Bodies.

Certification is the term used by CanadaGAP to describe the determination by a qualified authority that the supplier meets the standard and that its food safety program is being maintained on an ongoing basis. This involves having a third party auditor from the Certification Body visit the operation, review the food safety manual(s) and related records, interview the operator and staff, and assess the company’s conformance to the CanadaGAP Audit Checklist. Since the Audit Checklist covers all crop groupings, multi-crop operations may be able to cover their

entire production in one audit, depending on which activities are occurring at the time of the audit. Those who pass the audit are certified to the program. Certification indicates that the operation has a system of procedures to minimize the risk of contamination to product. The Certification Body certifies processes, not products. The auditor gathers evidence to attest to the ongoing maintenance of the food safety system, rather than simply gaining a snapshot at a given point in time.


Step 1: Fill out the participant registration form available on-line www.saskgreenhouses.com and send the completed form to the SGGA office. This registers you for the program and ensures that you are notified of upcoming workshops.

Step 2: Participate in the 3 hour workshop.

Step 3: Commence the implementation process.

Step 4: When ready and if desired prepare for full certification. Six months of growing time is required so that the auditor has six months of documentation to review. Should you choose never to become certified you still gain, because now you have good agriculture practices in place, your business is more productive and profitable, you could more easily transfer control to someone else and you will always know that you produce a consistent product of high quality.

How do I enroll in the Program?

Contact:

Financial Support available to producers:

Technical Advice: $1,500/producer, minimum 50% producer cost share

Equipment: $750/producer, minimum 50% producer cost share

ON FARM FOOD SAFETY http://www.canadagap.ca

SGGA - Saskatchewan Greenhouse Growers AssociationBox 68, Middle Lake, SK S0K 2X0Email: [email protected]: 306-367-2012 Fax: 306-367-2403

Eligible equipment approved:• Label maker

• OFFS compliant light fixtures/light bulb covers/shatter proof light bulbs (bulbs first time purchase only)

• OFFS related signs

• Window and Door Screens for pest control

• Sinks (with or without counter), taps, permanently fixed sanitizing lotion dispensers, pressure system pumps (if pumps non-existent and required to put in a hand washing station) for hand washing stations

• OFFS compliant wall paneling and counter covering (non-wood)

• On-farm food safety software (record keeping software)

• Rodent and insect traps and control devices, bird netting, electronic bird deterrent devices, and deer fencing for pest control – bait not eligible

• Electronic time/temperature measuring and recording devices for storage

• Water treatment equipment limited to strip readers, circulating pumps, pH meter, water chlorinator, sanitizer strength reading devices, moisture analyzer/water activity meter, and check valves for detergents and sanitizers

• Portable field toilets

• Chemical storage cabinet

• Luminometer hygiene devices

• Metal detector/metal detector test wands/ magnets/magnetic banks

• Light meter

• Scale/calibration devices for weighing or measuring chemicals and additives

Certified Producer Equipment: $2,000/producer, minimum 50% producer cost share


2017 Saskatchewan Green Trades Conference

Thank you to our

sponsors and

exhibitorsProfessional Gardener

Actagro

Stokes

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Cascades Containers

Paridon Horticulture Ltd

CPS Evergro

Van Noort Bulb

Jolly Farmer

Jeffries Nurseries

Hort Source

Early’s Farm and Garden

Health Canada Pesticide

Horta Craft

Dummen Orange

Ball Hort

Saskatchewan Polytechnic


• Supplemental Lighting Considerations: Strategies, Selection & Installation• From Box to Rooting Stage 4: Success with Unrooted Cuttings• Must have Greenhouse and Garden Centre Apps• Greenhouse Diagnostics Workshop: Symptoms of Cultural & Environmental Challenges

• Optimizing Microgreens Production• Pros & Cons of Various Hydroponic Systems

• Strategies to Improve Plant Retail Shelf Life• Expanding your Fertilizer Toolkit• Controlled-Environment Agriculture (CEA) technology-based approach toward food

production• Greenhouse Diagnostics Workshop: Symptoms of Cultural & Environmental Challenges

• Recent Advances in Greenhouse Pest Research• The Invasive Lily Beetle Biological Control Project in Canada• Digital and Online Tools for Pest Management in Greenhouses

• Pesticide Regulations in Saskatchewan

• Learning Opportunities To Help You Grow Your Business

• On Farm Food Safety Training

• Prairie Bee - The Evolution of Saskatchewan’s First Meadery

• One glug or two glugs

• Approaches to Manage Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus in commercial Greenhouses

• An Effective Sanitization Program is the key to Reducing or Eliminating Pests & Diseases

• Myth, Mysteries and Realities about Cannabis• Cannabis, current trends, issues and solutions

• Succulents: Leading the DIY Craze• Selling plants online

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Thank you to our speakers!


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