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2026 Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening

You're invited to the 11th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening on Feb 11, 2026 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST (online)

Join us for the 11th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening. A collaboration between OSU Dry Farming Program and the Dry Farming Institute nonprofit. We gather to give updates on our collaborative projects; share successes, failures, lessons learned; plan for the next growing season; and discuss the future of the Dry Farming Collaborative.

This year's presentations will include:

  • Clara Nicholls, UC Berkeley Professor, will present on Agroecological Approaches to Drought Adaptation

  • Fabrizia Lanza, Sicilian cultural food expert, and Vincenzo Pisa, Sicilian farmer, present on: Why and how to dry farm tomatoes in the middle of Sicily: soil; management, varieties, and sustainability

  • Anthony Reyes, Oxbow Farm, Carnation, WA, provides insights from dry farmed summer cover-cropping trials, as well as dry farm tomato and winter squash production.

  • Matt Davis and Lucas Nebert present OSU Dry Farming Program Research updates on dry farm production of tomatoes, cowpea, and sorghum in Corvallis, Oregon

  • Amy Garrett shares exciting updates and developments from the Dry Farming Institute

Focus group discussions will include:

  • Dry farmed cut flowers collaborative research opportunities

  • Dry farmed seed saving, breeding and adaptation

  • Dry farm tomato production principles and practices

  • Farmer-led dry farming research hubs discussion

  • Dry farmed fruit trees and other perennials

  • Western Arid Growers Network meetup

 

Please RSVP to let us know if you can attend this virtual meeting. Even if you cannot attend, please complete the registration process, and we will provide you with all meeting materials including the meeting recording, future opportunities to connect with meeting participants, and more ways to get involved with the Dry Farming Collaborative.

 

This will be our 11th annual winter meeting where we gather to give updates on our collaborative projects; share successes, failures, lessons learned; plan for the next growing season; and discuss the future of the Dry Farming Collaborative.

Free to attend, register with link or email [email protected]

https://extension.oregonstate.edu/smallfarms/events/11th-annual-dry-farm...

 

Past Events

10th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening: Archive of the program and links to the presentations from the meeting on February 5, 2025.

9th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening: Archive of the program and links to the presentations from the meeting on February 7, 2024.

8th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening: Archive of the program and links to the presentations from the meeting on February 8, 2023.

7th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Convening: Archive of the program and links to the presentations from the meeting on February 8, 2022.

6th Annual Dry Farming Collaborative Winter Meeting: Archive of the program, speaker bios, and presentations from the meeting on February 25, 2021

Virtual Adaptive Ag Water Symposium: 3 Presentations recorded on November 6, 2020 - As Oregon and other western states deal with drier growing seasons and higher wildfire risks, it is critical to increase our knowledge of how to grow more food with less water, design for enhanced water retention and infiltration, understand the future of water law in Oregon, as well as how to protect farms and crops using green fire breaks.

2020 Dry Farming Project Virtual Field Tours - The 2020 Dry Farm Project field tours were held on Wednesday mornings in August and September of 2020 There were nine field tours featuring different elements of the five core projects; Tomatoes, Corn Breeding, Soil Management, Solar Co-location with Dry-Farmed Vegetables, and Variety Trials.