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Hoop House Production Featured on New NCAT Radio Show

NCAT/ATTRA
July 15, 2009
By Holly Michels

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Tune in this Thursday, July 16 at 11 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) to hear the National Center for Appropriate Technology�s new Sustainable Agriculture Spotlight, a weekly Internet radio show on the Green Talk Network. This week�s Sustainable Agriculture Spotlight will show small scale farmers how hoop houses can extend the growing season. The program will cover the uses and benefits of hoop houses; different structure types; how to manage crops, fertility, pests and weeds; and the economics and marketing of hoop house crops.

Host Jeff Birkby, outreach director for NCAT�s ATTRA � National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service project, will be joined by NCAT horticulture specialists Tammy Hinman and Andy Pressman. Hinman holds a Bachelor�s degree from Colorado State University in horticulture food crops and entomology and a Master's degree in food system studies from Antioch University. Pressman has a Master�s in sustainable systems from Slippery Rock University. He is a certified permaculture designer. Hinman and Pressman both have market farming experience as well as experience building and growing in hoop houses.

The radio show will be heard live on Thursdays at 11 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) from July through early October. Archived files of each show will also be available on the ATTRA Web site at www.attra.ncat.org/radioshow2009.

The Green Talk Network is part of VoiceAmerica(TM), the world's largest live Internet talk radio network with more than 200 radio show hosts and six genre-based channels. The Green Talk Network, the newest channel on VoiceAmerica(TM), launched in January 2009 and features environmental activists, business leaders and trend setters discussing how to create a more sustainable future.

For more information or to listen to the show, visit www.attra.ncat.org/radioshow2009.

Since 1976 NCAT, with its headquarters in Butte, Mont., has provided training, publications, Web sites, personalized technical assistance and telephone helplines to address issues ranging from housing and economics to environmental quality. NCAT has offices in Butte, Mont.; Davis, Calif.; Des Moines, Iowa; Fayetteville, Ark.; and Shavertown, Pa. ATTRA National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and is funded under a grant from the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service. It provides information and other technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, extension agents, educators and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States.

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