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Check out the info below for Practical Farmers of Iowa's annual free High Tunnel Farminar. You can connect to it and other farminars at: http://www.practicalfarmers.org/farminar/ This year's features Paul and Alison Wiediger! Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 at 7 pm (Central) for our weekly free online learning from farmers!* Adobe Connect Mobile available for use with your iPad, tablet, or smart phone! Download Adobe Connect Mobile in the App Store. * Production in high tunnels: Salad greens, microgreens and more with Paul and Alison Wiediger and Sara Hanson *Hear how to grow higher quality salad greens and microgreens in a season-extending high tunnel. * - Paul and Alison Wiediger operate Au Naturel Farm in Smiths Grove, Ky., and grow a wide array of vegetables from May through October, many types of leaf lettuces and gourmet salad greens from October through June, and raise free-range eggs all year. - Sara Hanson, of Prairie Sky Farm, is a beginning farmer near Wesley, Iowa. She recently installed a high tunnel and started growing produce for local grocers and wholesale markets in her north-central Iowa community. FREE "Farminar" from Practical Farmers of Iowa of the 2012 fall series. This web-based seminar is a 90-minute, interactive, online learning opportunity offered by Practical Farmers of Iowa. If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html