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Dragonfly Swarms, Mother Earth News, and Heritage Harvest Festival
Dragonfly photo courtesy Staunton News Leader Swarms of dragonflies are popping up in Virginia Leanna Smith, in the Staunton News Leader reported that meteorologists in Ohio had spotted something...
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Hear Chris Smith In Defense of Okra at Heritage Harvest Festival
Chris Smith, author of The Whole Okra I’m a big fan of Chris Smith and his work. I reviewed his book The Whole Okra on this site and I want to tell you that you can hear him speak at the Heritage...
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Potato Research, Mother Earth News Fair PA and Heritage Harvest Festival
Crates of potatoes in our root cellar.Photo Nina Gentle Potato Research on Harvest and Storage Last week I mentioned that while researching potato yield figures, I found an interesting publication, The...
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Saving watermelon seed, rainy day reading, Heritage Harvest Festival
Scooping watermelon seed.Photo Pam Dawling I wrote recently about saving tomato seed, and here I’ll write about extracting watermelon seed. We grow Crimson Sweet Virginia Select, which we sell to...
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Washing tomato seeds, Heritage Harvest Festival, Organic Broadcaster
Wet Roma tomato seeds set to dry with a fan.Photo Pam Dawling Last week I wrote about saving tomato seeds and eating the tomatoes too. We left the extracted tomato seed in a bucket to ferment for three...
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Heritage Harvest Festival, Carolina Farm Stewardship Assoc Conference,...
After a couple of summer months off from speaking at events, I am gearing up for the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, near Charlottesville. This two day festival has a day of ticketed...
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Saving watermelon seed, rainy day reading, Heritage Harvest Festival
Scooping watermelon seed.Photo Pam Dawling I wrote recently about saving tomato seed, and here I’ll write about extracting watermelon seed. We grow Crimson Sweet Virginia Select, which we sell to...
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Washing tomato seeds, Heritage Harvest Festival, Organic Broadcaster
Wet Roma tomato seeds set to dry with a fan.Photo Pam Dawling Last week I wrote about saving tomato seeds and eating the tomatoes too. We left the extracted tomato seed in a bucket to ferment for three...
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Heritage Harvest Festival, Carolina Farm Stewardship Assoc Conference,...
After a couple of summer months off from speaking at events, I am gearing up for the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, near Charlottesville. This two day festival has a day of ticketed...
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Upcoming events, Growing for Market article, Organic Broadcaster
Harvesting Zephyr yellow squash.Photo Brittany Lewis Starting with what’s being harvested now – squash and zucchini are coming in nicely. The hoophouse Gentry yellow squash (chosen for being...
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Late carrot sowing, plenty of corn and okra, spotty tomatoes.
Newly emerged carrots with indicator beets. Photo Kathryn Simmons We finally got our big planting of fall carrots sown. Much later than I’ve ever sown carrots before. Our goal is early August, so we...
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Heritage Harvest Festival soon! meanwhile in the garden . . .
A demonstration at Monticello.Photo by Monticello The Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia, is coming right up. Friday September 9 and the main day Saturday September...
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Feeding the Soil Slideshow, Hoophouse Crop Rotations, Growing for Market...
Tall sweet pepper plants in our hoophouse in early October. Photo Pam Dawling First a photo of a couple of sweet pepper plants in our hoophouse. They are looking a bit “back-end-ish”, but are still...
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Lettuce slideshow, Mother Earth News Fair, FaceBook Live, Top summer...
We drove home seven hours from the Pennsylvania Mother Earth News Fair yesterday through the rain. The remnants of Hurricane Florence. We were among the lucky people. Earlier forecasts for Florence had...
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Garden Planning, Winter Harvests and Speaking Events
Garden Planning Field Manual Photo VABF ‘Tis the season – after the relaxation of the holidays – time for garden planning. Inventory your seeds left from last year, peruse the catalogs and prepare your...
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Komatsuna: Asian greens for September, plus Chinese Kitchen Garden book
Komatsuna Asian green.Photo Fothergill Seeds Komatsuna is a large, upright, hardy, leafy green, also known as mustard spinach (so is Pak Choy!), and Summer Fest (a popular hybrid). It’s available in...
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Saving watermelon seed, rainy day reading, Heritage Harvest Festival
Scooping watermelon seed.Photo Pam Dawling I wrote recently about saving tomato seed, and here I’ll write about extracting watermelon seed. We grow Crimson Sweet Virginia Select, which we sell to...
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Washing tomato seeds, Heritage Harvest Festival, Organic Broadcaster
Wet Roma tomato seeds set to dry with a fan.Photo Pam Dawling Last week I wrote about saving tomato seeds and eating the tomatoes too. We left the extracted tomato seed in a bucket to ferment for three...
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Heritage Harvest Festival, Carolina Farm Stewardship Assoc Conference,...
After a couple of summer months off from speaking at events, I am gearing up for the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, near Charlottesville. This two day festival has a day of ticketed...
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Upcoming events, Growing for Market article, Organic Broadcaster
Harvesting Zephyr yellow squash.Photo Brittany Lewis Starting with what’s being harvested now – squash and zucchini are coming in nicely. The hoophouse Gentry yellow squash (chosen for being...
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