2025 Vegetable Production Certificate Course

This vegetable production course is designed to benefit beginner vegetable producers who have 0-3 years of vegetable growing experience or no formal training in agriculture. The participants will learn answers to the basic questions about farm business planning, planning and preparing for vegetable farm, warm and cool-season vegetable production techniques, season extension, identification of biotic and abiotic issues, and marketing.

• The course consists of seven online modules, each of which include a self-paced video, supplemental material, and a short quiz.
• The slides presented in the video are also provided in a downloaded PDF file for note-taking and future reference.
• The supplemental materials are great addition to your personal reference library and valuable resources for all farmers.
• The module quizzes are designed to test your knowledge of the key points within the specific module.
• Each module is expected to take you approximately one hour to complete, although this varies by user.

After passing the post-test associated with all seven core modules, participants will be able to achieve the certificate of completion. Registration deadline: January 20, 2025

Please contact the course coordinator, Shuresh Ghimire (Shuresh.Ghimire@uconn.edu, 860-870-6933) with any questions about this course.