<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Community Food & Agriculture Coalition's</span><a href="https://www.farmlinkmontana.org/farmer-field-days-2018/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Farmer Field Days</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will continue with its second field day of the season next </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday, June 20</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Red Hen Farm & Orchard</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span id="gmail-m_-4021875258860383698gmail-docs-internal-guid-643904f1-f51e-ddec-8150-a770e89ac8f2" style="font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><b>While registration for this workshop is currently closed, you can email our <a href="mailto:sophie.frank@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">2018 Field Day Coordinator</a> to add your name to the wait list.</b></span></span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img src="cid:ii_jhtnfyeq0_163b30c4739b6d76" class="gmail-m_-4021875258860383698gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_-4021875258860383698gmail-a6T gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" height="341" width="454" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><br><br><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-weight:300;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:18px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)">Small Fruit Production & Using Urban Resources<br></span></span></h4><h5 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-weight:500;line-height:12px;color:rgb(191,191,191);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">RED HEN FARM & ORCHARD, MISSOULA</h5><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;ma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