It is May 1, and welcome to the Great Lakes Vegetable Producer’s Network, a live weekly roundtable discussion during the growing-season for commercial vegetable producers in the Great Lakes and Midwest region. We broadcast live via Zoom at 12:30 ET/11:30 CT every Wednesday from the first week of May to the first week of September.Topics will include things of interest to small and large growers, organic and conventional. To join the live audience, subscribe and get the login at glveg.net/listen. You can also get the Zoom smartphone apps there.If you have a vegetable production issue that you would like discussed, simply email it, along with your phone number, to [email protected] format we’re running with will be a 30 minute interview and discussion with some experts from the region, on topics that seem relevant for the week or month. Then, we’ll open it up for another 15 or 20 minutes for some live audience participation with the hosts and guests of the week.This coming week, MAY 6: WEATHERING THE COVID-19 CONTENT STORMWe will interview Amanda Byler, a Family Nurse Practitioner who works with migrant worker communities at Great Lakes Bay Health Centers, and Annalisa Hultberg, University of Minnesota Extension Educator for on-farm food safety, about farm family, farm worker, and customer safety as we enter our production season during a global pandemic.Music: Gypsy Dance, Topher Mohr and Alex Elena, Youtube Audio Library.

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