Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 07:12:44 -0400
From: Debbie Roos >
Subject: new website for pollinator garden
For those of you interested in pollinator conservation (and that should be anyone who likes to eat!), take a look at Cooperative Extension’s new website for the Chatham Mills “Pollinator Paradise” Demonstration Garden [...]
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:49:46 -0400
From: Debbie Roos
Subject: PYO strawberries!
Strawberry season has arrived and it’s looking to be a great year for berries! Chatham County has two pick-your-own strawberry farms that would welcome your business:
Jean’s Berry Patch in Apex – call for opening date (any day now!)
Oakley [...]
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:26:38 -0400
From: Kira Dirlik
Subject: Continuing Tree Saga
As I continue to observe the elms, I see that it is something entirely different from the dropping leaf skeletons going on. A different predator from the past two years. The leaves are slowly being completely [...]
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:29:41 -0400
From: Marina C Long
Subject: Re: Chatham Chatlist #3705
Subject: Mystery Noise. Reply to Lyn Hicks about mystery noise:
I don’t know if the crackling sound you hear is related to the cut Maple leaves you see all around. However, at my house, LOTS of [...]
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:31:50 -0400
From: Al Cooke
Subject: Mysteries in the trees
It’s often misleading to identify insects or other mysteries based on general descriptions. But I recently had a call about a small caterpillar and black fecal pellets falling from a tree – oak I think. And [...]
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:19:53 -0800
From: Tom Glendinning
Subject: Subject: Slippery Elms dying
Kira;
Decline of elms, slippery or Chinese, is a common occurence. Elms do not seem to live long in the Piedmont. Root rot, trunk cankers, borers are more likely invaders. The variable oak leaf caterpillar, green striped [...]
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:14:13 -0400
From: Kira Dirlik
Subject: Slippery Elms dying
For the past two years I have seen all the leaves fall off slippery elms on my property, as just dry brown skeletons, in mid- summer. (Never before 2 summers ago.) I noticed this week that [...]
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:08:45 -0400
From: Lynn Hicks
Subject: mystery noise
We have noticed for a week or so a crackling kind of noise as we walk through the woods in the evening. It really sounds a lot like a gentle rain on the leaves. I then noticed, walking [...]
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:20:48 -0400
From: Al Cooke
Subject: Taking the Fire out of Fire Ants
Taking the Fire out of Fire Ants
Cooperative Extension in Chatham County will offer a program on fire ant management on Thursday April 29. The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the [...]
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:37:36 -0700
From: Gardner, Patricia (Trish)
Subject: chicken talk
Hi Friends – I’m interested in keeping chickens in my backyard and live in a neighborhood where current covenants do not allow chicken keeping. I’m interested in hearing your advice – the pros and the cons [...]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:31:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Robert Sprenger
Subject: Time For The Mushrooms Again….
It feels like the wheel is turning. Winter is creaking to an end, and Spring is starting to reveal itself. Our local wild mushroom club, Chatham Mushroom Friends, aka Chatmush, has grown to 44 members since it’s inception in October [...]
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:45:33 -0500
From: Camille
Subject: Organic Modular Gardens Workshop April 17
Don’t let a small yard hold you back. Learn how to construct your own modular container gardens with readily available materials, much of it recycled! Grow an abundance of food anywhere!
Instructor Bob Armantrout teaches all you need [...]
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:32:53 -0500
From: Sam Groce
Subject: News Release on Beef Quality Assurance Training
Upcoming Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Training Program
Many of you will remember during 1997-98 there was the initiative called th=
e North Carolina Certified Beef Producer Program also called Southeast Prid=
e, which encouraged producers to not only vaccinate and more actively manag=
e [...]
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:05:33 -0500
From: Trace Ramsey
Subject: Chatham Crop Mob event featured in New York Times Magazine
The Crop Mob event at Okfuskee Farm in Silk Hope will be featured in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. You can also view the article online now – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28food-t-000.html
For more information on Crop Mob, please visit [...]
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:56:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Sara Brinson
Subject: Pittsboro Garden Club?
Wondering if there is an active garden club in Pittsboro… I’m no expert but would love to be a part of helping Pittsboro bloom. Yes, spring fever is hitting!! Even with the forecast of snow, I’ve seen the crocuses blooming and the daffodils [...]
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:47:12 -0500
From: Al Cooke
Subject: Growing Your Own Food
Thinking of growing a spring garden? Chatham County Center of Cooperative Extension will offer an introduction to food gardening including fruits and vegetables. This program will be a repeat of a program offered last fall. It will cover the basics of garden site [...]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:34:15 -0500
From: trentt
Subject: Chickens at Pittsboro Feed
I saw the post Friday about the spring chicken schedule at Pittsboro Feed. I bought 4 chicks from them last fall and they are now about 19 weeks old and are on the verge of laying eggs in the next few weeks.
They have been [...]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:36:25 -0500
From: Debbie Roos
Subject: Chatham County CSAs
Trish,
I have a list of Chatham County CSA farms on my Growing Small Farms website at http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/SustAg/csafarms.html
Each CSA is unique and has its own distribution system. Farmers will often be willing to add a new delivery stop if a certain number of members sign [...]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:20:11 -0500
From: Al Cooke
Subject: Re: pine straw info
To the question of “Are there any local sources of long leaf pine straw” ….
Longleaf pine is generally considered to be the premier source of pine needles for mulch and very few long leaf trees are found in Chatham. However there is significant [...]
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:16:38 -0400
From: John Dykers, MD
Subject: black walnut trees
How recently is seems that we were particularly preserving our walnut trees at the farm as very valuable future revenue source! With NC at the center of the furniture manufacturing world they seemed such a wise investment. The wood is certainly beautiful and [...]