MARCH
Saturday, March 7: Maple & Other Tree Tapping - Basics and sales opportunities
Part 1: 10 am - Noon. Jack Caffrey Center.
Learn about local $$$ making opportunities & the Basics of tree tapping and making maple syrup- Break (Lunch On Your Own)
Part 2: 1 pm - 3 pm . Berwind, WV - Hands On Tree Tapping with T & T Organics—Agricultural Producers from right here in McDowell County, working with EDGE (www.edge-us.org)

Saturday, March 14: Green House production - Fruits and Vegetables - T &T Organics
Part 1: 10 am - Noon. Jack Caffrey Center. Learn about local $$$ making opportunities and support for getting your own greenhouse through the USDA NRCS program. Part 2: 1 pm - 3 pm . Berwind WV -
Learn the Basics of Greenhouse & High Tunnel & Small Farm Production with 
T & T Organics— Agricultural Producers from McDowell County and EDGE (www.edge-us.org)

Saturday, March 28: Chicken Production: Is it right for ME and my land? - Pockerchickory farms
10 am - Noon. Learn the basics of meat chicken production, featuring local $$$ making & production opportunities. Jack Caffrey Center. SEEDH (www.seedh.co) & Pockerchickory Farms (www.pockerchicoryfarms.com)
with Mercer County native Dr. Crystal Cook Marshall

APRIL
Saturday, April 4: Meat Goat Production: Is it right for me and my land? - Pockerchickory Farms
10 am - Noon. $$$ making & production opportunities with live meat goat demo. Jack Caffrey Center. SEEDH (www.seedh.co) & Pockerchickory Farms (www.pockerchicoryfarms.com) with Mercer County native Dr. Crystal Cook Marshall

Tuesday, April 7: Beekeeping: Is it right for me? - Appalachian beekeeping Collective
6 pm - 8 pm - Mark Lilly from Appalachian Beekeeping Collective [working with coalminers to become beekeepers--www.appheadwaters.org] discusses beekeeping basics, $$$ making opportunities,and how to become a sponsored beekeeper for their collective.  Jack Caffrey Center.

MAY
​Saturday, May 2: FEATURE WORKSHOP!!!! ($2500 value— FREE!)
FIX poor soil & make land profitable with Michigan-based cattle & sheep operator Ben Bartlett

Part 1: 10 am - Noon. Fix soil and turn a profit whether in the mountains or in the hollers
through Holistic Management (www.holisticmangement.org), Jack Caffrey Center. 

Part 2: 1 pm - 3pm. Berwind WV.
Examine a mountain site up close & learn the signs to look for to grow your site’s
soil and profit! 

A GREAT day of learning for experienced livestock producers & new farmers.


Saturday, May 9: Growing Mountain Herbs & Products - Sprouting Farms
10 am - Noon . Learn about sales & production opportunities for growing mountain herbs on your land, in high tunnels, or in your backyard. Jack Caffrey Center. With Ruby Daniels of Sprouting Farms, Greenbrier County, WV (www.sproutingfarms.org)

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SEEDH RENTS GOATS!

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in Southern West Virginia, Southwestern Virginia, and
I-77 North Carolina.


BOOKING NOW for 2020!

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SEEDH SELLS! 
Get to know SEEDH's brands...

SEEDH WHOLESALE

SEEDH aggregates and sells wholesale to regional buyers. Currently, SEEDH has the following in production or pilot:
pastured turkeys
pastured chickens
meat goats
honey bees

SOUTHEAST SUGAR

Southeast Sugar is SEEDH's premier aggregation brand, focusing exclusively on value-added and other product with limited production.
Sell your product through Southeast Sugar!

HEROIC

SEEDH's Veteran Brand.
Sell your product through Heroic!
www.heroicproducts.net

 SEEDH STEWARDS!
SEEDH seeks to expand economic sectors identified for upgrowth!
Learn more below!

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Maple products

.SEEDH seeks to support maple product producers through aggregation, product processing, and sales
under a cohesive brand.
Producer members gain access to a range of necessary infrastructure, expertise, product development expertise, fair return, investment potential. and entrepreneurial and business services.
SEEDH partners for assessment of sector feasibility in maple production.

Grassfed livestock and
​pastured poultry

SEEDH stewards producers in heritage turkey and meat goat production. It is in its third year of piloting meat goats and began its pastured turkey pilot this year.

​Get in touch if you would like to be a SEEDH producer!

SEEDH supports grassfed livestock and pastured poultry producers through aggregation and sales. Producer members gain access to production expertise, necessary infrastructure, product development expertise, fair return, and entrepreneurial and business services.

Sustainable Spirits 
​from field to still!

SEEDH seeks to support sustainable spirit production through aggregation and sales of inputs and outputs under cohesive brands, product and input support and development, brand development, and necessary infrastructure.
Working with regional partners, SEEDH seeks to offers grain liquor producer support from the field to the still!

Become a SEEDH producer member!

SEEDH is now accepting producer members!

SEEDH functions in two major ways for the advantage of its producer members.
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• SEEDH aggregates essential goods, services, and infrastructure so the producer does not take on all these costs of operation alone.

• SEEDH aggregates essential business sales, logistics, essential services, inputs, and marketing so the producer does not have to take these on and can focus instead on producing the best product possible.

Examples of SEEDH's entrepreneurship and business services for its producer members include:

 Business basics (copying machine, computer center, meeting and conference rooms) coming soon in Kimball, WV.
Marketing
​Brokering
Product Development (value added services)
Raising capital
Grant writing
Group purchasing (pooled)
Reduced negotiated health insurance
Business Incubation
Reduced rate accounting
Mentorship of strong business plans
Ongoing education through essential partnerships

Adding additional product lines & services to SEEDH...

SEEDH focuses on sustainable sectors of scale. As the potential for scaling up and providing a living family wage strengthens for a product profile, SEEDH will engage in feasibility and research toward accepting a new product or range of products into its cooperative profile, replete with supporting producer members in that product line.

Kimball , WV
seedhcooperative@gmail.com

SEEDH (Southeast Economic and Education Development Hub Cooperative Corporation - pronounced "seed") supports land-based and creative industries entrepreneurship and upgrowth for the Southeast out of its base in Kimball, WV. Through its current chartered producers cooperative, SEEDH provides necessary agriculture, beverage, land-based, forest farming, food entrepreneurship, and arts and crafts business infrastructure for its producer business members from across the Southeast.

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