Events Happening at the Farm
Sept 16, 2017 1:30pm-3:30pm
Heat and Water Stress The Sustainable Roundtable
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Now is a good time to think about how you might do things differently if, as it seems, the weather is likely to remain the same for a time. I think it will take a re-evaluation of the home garden to take better advantage of the timing, placement, and choice of plants to better suit different weather conditions. We need to think about natural weather conditions and use them to our best advantage – shade trees and buildings; putting in pea or beans trellising and taking advantage of the shade; planting shade loving plants in the shade of taller plants; getting plants well-established while the weather is cooler. Install some rain barrels to handle hand watering. Develop a list of summer vegetables that can manage with little water. Most greens crops will not germinate if the soil is already hot. Some varieties of strawberries will not bear when it is too hot. Consider planting yourself a double row of strawberries on the shady side of your raspberry trellising. Use a light coloured mulch (fresh roadside chips) to cover the soil and keep it cool. Water at night.
Bring a notebook and your drawing of your garden.
Come be apart of the conversation.
No registration required.
The Sustainable Roundtable is a farm initiative to build up a community of members to share their knowlege and learn from each other.
Heat and Water Stress The Sustainable Roundtable
Check out Facebook for the event
Now is a good time to think about how you might do things differently if, as it seems, the weather is likely to remain the same for a time. I think it will take a re-evaluation of the home garden to take better advantage of the timing, placement, and choice of plants to better suit different weather conditions. We need to think about natural weather conditions and use them to our best advantage – shade trees and buildings; putting in pea or beans trellising and taking advantage of the shade; planting shade loving plants in the shade of taller plants; getting plants well-established while the weather is cooler. Install some rain barrels to handle hand watering. Develop a list of summer vegetables that can manage with little water. Most greens crops will not germinate if the soil is already hot. Some varieties of strawberries will not bear when it is too hot. Consider planting yourself a double row of strawberries on the shady side of your raspberry trellising. Use a light coloured mulch (fresh roadside chips) to cover the soil and keep it cool. Water at night.
Bring a notebook and your drawing of your garden.
Come be apart of the conversation.
No registration required.
The Sustainable Roundtable is a farm initiative to build up a community of members to share their knowlege and learn from each other.
September 30, 2017 from 1:30pm-3:30pm
Garlic - The Sustainable Roundtable
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We will hold another Garlic Lovers Round Table this fall before planting time. It was thoroughly useful and entertaining last fall. Besides learning about cleaning and preparing garlic for storage, we talked about saving for fall planting, Tips for planting garlic, what to do with the surplus, trying other varieties, etc. Where do we go from here?
Bring a notebook and your drawing of your garden.
Come be apart of the conversation.
No registration required.
The Sustainable Roundtable is a farm initiative to build up a community of members to share their knowlege and learn from each other.
Garlic - The Sustainable Roundtable
Check out our Facebook event
We will hold another Garlic Lovers Round Table this fall before planting time. It was thoroughly useful and entertaining last fall. Besides learning about cleaning and preparing garlic for storage, we talked about saving for fall planting, Tips for planting garlic, what to do with the surplus, trying other varieties, etc. Where do we go from here?
Bring a notebook and your drawing of your garden.
Come be apart of the conversation.
No registration required.
The Sustainable Roundtable is a farm initiative to build up a community of members to share their knowlege and learn from each other.
October 21, 2017 from 1:30pm-3:30pm
Pollinators - The Sustainable Roundtable
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Bees do like it hot, but there isn’t a lot of available food when the weather is continuously hot like we are having. Things we can be thinking about for them is to make sure that you have flowering plants available and watered and also that you put out shallow containers of water near the hives. It is helpful to bees in stressful situations to let bi-annual herbs and flowers go to seed. Cucubits blossoms of all kinds are very welcome. Especially the bumble bees like to bumble around inside the yellow blossoms. The honeybees have spent almost a month now hanging out in our 50 foot Little Leaf Linden Tree. The entire tree buzzes away from morning to night. The ants carry the nectar around which drips over the leaves and everything else. I have read that it does not make great honey, but it is sweet and the bees seem to like it and I don’t think there is anything much we can do about it.
Bring a notebook and your drawing of your garden.
Come be apart of the conversation.
No registration required.
The Sustainable Roundtable is a farm initiative to build up a community of members to share their knowlege and learn from each other.
Pollinators - The Sustainable Roundtable
Check out the Facebook event
Bees do like it hot, but there isn’t a lot of available food when the weather is continuously hot like we are having. Things we can be thinking about for them is to make sure that you have flowering plants available and watered and also that you put out shallow containers of water near the hives. It is helpful to bees in stressful situations to let bi-annual herbs and flowers go to seed. Cucubits blossoms of all kinds are very welcome. Especially the bumble bees like to bumble around inside the yellow blossoms. The honeybees have spent almost a month now hanging out in our 50 foot Little Leaf Linden Tree. The entire tree buzzes away from morning to night. The ants carry the nectar around which drips over the leaves and everything else. I have read that it does not make great honey, but it is sweet and the bees seem to like it and I don’t think there is anything much we can do about it.
Bring a notebook and your drawing of your garden.
Come be apart of the conversation.
No registration required.
The Sustainable Roundtable is a farm initiative to build up a community of members to share their knowlege and learn from each other.
Our next event is on June 24, 2017 from 1:30pm-3:30pm. What can the solstice do for you and your garden? The plants go to seed around the solstice. Learn how to plant with the seasons and the solstice! Facebook event
Bring a notebook and your drawing of your garden.
Come be apart of the conversation.
No registration required.
The Sustainable Roundtable is a farm initiative to build up a community of members to share their knowledge and learn from each other.
Bring a notebook and your drawing of your garden.
Come be apart of the conversation.
No registration required.
The Sustainable Roundtable is a farm initiative to build up a community of members to share their knowledge and learn from each other.
Our next event is April 15, 2017 from 1:30pm-3:30pm with special guest Rose McCulley From J&R Farm
Check on our Facebook page for all our Roundtable events.
Check on our Facebook page for all our Roundtable events.
