<div dir="ltr"><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"><span id="gmail-m_7206207847651851312gmail-m_1313160006135619171gmail-m_6635890367824888165gmail-docs-internal-guid-17345e2e-f5c4-61be-dd76-fa97dd143be8" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The Community Food & Agriculture Coalition will host it's third </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(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 Day</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">of the season</span> 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, July 18</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">Foothill Farm</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"> in St. Ignatius, MT.</span></p><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"><br></span></p><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"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span id="gmail-m_7206207847651851312gmail-m_-4660389303532550244gmail-m_-2320105324187555325gmail-docs-internal-guid-643904f1-f51e-ddec-8150-a770e89ac8f2" style="font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Registration for this workshop is full, but you can <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDQVdSV9P5zl9ZBUGlR9EAUCYtwv-n42HMjxL2WXEogQGnsA/viewform" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">join our wait list</a> </span></span>to be notified if space opens up.<br></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"><div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_jjg33wvv0_16485a6dc5638e30" width="480" height="321" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><br></div><br></div></div><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)">Irrigation Systems on a Diversified Farm<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">FOOTHILL FARM  ||  ST. IGNATIUS, MT<br></h5><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"></font></p><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"><font size="2"><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, JULY 18</span></span>  ||<span> </span><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;">4-6 PM</span></span>  || POTLUCK TO FOLLOW</font></h5></font><b style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="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"><font size="2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At our July Field Day, farmer Julie Pavlock will talk about the different irrigation approaches utilized throughout the diverse systems at Foothill Farm and how she worked with  local NRCS agents to design for both water-efficiency and quality production. <span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">NRCS agent Austin Allen, who helped design Foothill Farm's irrigation systems, will provide technical details about the design. </span><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Foothill Farm is a certified organic, multi-generational family farm in the Mission Valley focusing on fresh vegetables for wholesale, seed garlic, and grass-fed beef. There are 70 acres, which include hay fields, pasture, 3 hoop houses, a propagation greenhouse, and 6 acres of vegetables. The farm also hosts chickens, milk cows, work horses, and honey bees. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></font></span></font></b><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(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><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(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our field days are geared toward people who are just at the beginning of their farm exploration—farm hands, interns, folks thinking about starting a farm in the near future, and those wh</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">o are currently</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> in the startup process. Of course, established farmers and ranchers are welcome too!</span></p><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(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><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(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information and to register for future Field Days, visit the</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(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;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:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Farm Link Events Page</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><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(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><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(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">---</span></p><p 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(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sophie Frank</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p 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(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p 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(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:small">Beginning Farmer & Rancher Program Intern</div><span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:small">Community Food & Agriculture Coalition</span><br style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.farmlinkmontana.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small">www.farmlinkmontana.org</a><div class="gmail-yj6qo" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div class="gmail-adL" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><br></div></div>