Small Equipment Demonstrations for Vegetable Farmers - Part II
May 15, 2012, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm at Tuckaway Farm, 59 Randall Road, Lee, NH
Presenters: Chris Hiller, Commercial Sales Representative and Adam Lemiuex, Tools Product Manager from Johnny's
Selected Seeds.
Cost: $5.00 per person, pay at the door.
Register: To RSVP, contact the NOFA-NH office at 224-5022 or Ray Conner at bof@nofanh.org
Hand tool demonstration for gardeners and commercial growers. Weeding, seeding, transplanting, cultivating and harvesting tools will be demonstrated and you'll get a chance to try some hands on practice as well as hammer in a few ground posts to show the beginning of setting up a high tunnel.
Holistic Orchard Intensive
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Maple Frost Farm
277 Holden Hill Road, Langdon, NH
NOFA-NH is delighted to have Michael Phillips, widely acclaimed author of The Apple Grower and The Holistic Orchard, discuss the key role fungal duff management and optimal nutrition plays for fruit trees and woodsy berries. We will meet in a homestead orchard in southwestern New Hampshire during the spring bloom period.
This is an excellent time to identify the insect and disease dynamics faced by New England growers. The core paradigm for this hands-on, day-long workshop centers on orchard health and the subtleties of a biodiverse ecosystem that make organic fruit-growing doable. Michael will share varietal and rootstock choices across the fruit spectrum – from apples to pears to peaches to cherries to berries – along with mulch and pruning instruction to manage them properly. A holistic spray schedule that supports system health is so very different from toxic thinking.
We’ll find plenty of time to address individual questions and then end with a rambunctious wassail sure to kindle those hopes of offering the “good fruit” to one’s own family and community. This is guaranteed to be an informative day for the diversified CSA grower as well as current and soon-to-be home orchardists.
Presenter: Organic Grower, Michael Phillips
Cost: $65.00 NOFA members/$75.00 Non-members. Beginner Organic Farmer Scholarships available. Limited to 40 participants.
Edible Forest Gardens: Growing a Food Paradise
Saturday, May 26, 2pm – 5pm, Followed by an optional potluck
Unitarian Universalist Church
274 Pleasant Street, Concord NH
Want to see permaculture plantings that work? Through images and discussion enjoy a thriving Edible Forest Garden that produces fruits, roots, shoots, greens, seeds, mulch, eggs, knowledge and fun. Come learn how to use the plants from this permaculture paradise in your own garden.
Jonathan Bates runs Food Forest Farm Permaculture Nursery. He’s been creating and working with rural and urban gardens for ten years, and inhabits an edible forest garden in Holyoke MA.
Register: Open to the public. Cost: sliding scale of $15-20. RSVPs required at meetup.com/GreaterSeacoastPermaculture
Sponsored by the Central NH & Greater Seacoast Permaculture Meetup Groups & NOFA-NH Permaculture designs human habitats and food growing systems by mimicking nature. It is a land use and community building movement offering a radical approach to food, urban renewal, water, energy and more.
