Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:57:01 -0500 From: Debbie Roos Subject: Register now for Ginger, Galangal, & Turmeric Workshops! For complete details and registration information for these workshops, visit the Growing Small Farms website at http://bit.ly/qb7UB. I am excited to be teaming up again with Susan Anderson of East Branch Ginger to offer more specialty crop workshops for growers! Please
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:39:45 -0500 From: Paperbacksplus Subject: Farmers’ Market at Paperbacks Plus! Valentines Day is getting closer!! Come out to the Farmers’ Market at Paperbacks Plus! this Friday from 11 – 1. MAZIE SUMMER SOAPS will be taking orders for custom baskets that can include her soaps, milk bath, room & linen sprays, lip balms,
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:25:00 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: pattipatti Subject: Re: Thanks shoppers, now recruiting vendors & sponsors! Dear Chatlist readers: The Chatham Mills Farmers’ Market want to thank the community for supporting our first year as a Saturday market in downtown Pittsboro. In 2012 we will re-open April 14 and run every Saturday thru November 17. VENDORS WANTED!
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:46:23 -0500 From: Piedmont Biofarm Subject: New CSA starting Greetings fellow Chathamites. Did you know that you could get lots of fresh veggies in January? Well you can and I want to let everyone know about our great year-round CSA here at Piedmont Biofarm. We are a sustainable farm with a focus on
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:14:39 -0500 From: Debbie Roos Subject: Register now for Natural Beekeeping Workshop on Jan. 28 The Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension will offer a Natural Beekeeping workshop as part of its Enhancing Sustainability Series on Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 10:00 am-4:30 pm in the auditorium of the Agriculture Building
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:43:43 -0500 From: Debbie Roos Subject: small flock poultry workshop Jan. 19 Registration details for this workshop are on the Growing Small Farms website calendar at http://bit.ly/19Y7lt If you have questions about this workshop please contact Poultry Agent Dan Campeau at 919-548-9895 or dan_campeau@ncsu.edu<mailto:dan_campeau@ncsu.edu>. January 19, 2012: Small Flock Poultry Workshop from 9:30 am-3:30 pm
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:09:18 -0500 From: Kaufman, Brystana Subject: re: Cooperative gardening? The Garden of Concord is just north of Chatham County in Eli Whitney, and we have a couple members who come up from Chatham. The lead gardener is currently pursuing a degree in sustainable agriculture at CCCC, and she has done an amazing job! We
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:13:46 -0500 (EST) From: Walton Haywood Subject: Second Winter Tree ID Walk Is Full Chatlisters, The Second Tree ID Walk is Full! Thanks to everyone who signed up. Sorry we can’t accommodate all who are interested. We must have hit a nerve because there is a lot of interest in a winter outing in
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:20:34 -0500 From: Dwain Ritchie Subject: spraying sludge I see that Synagro is still out here in Chatham County spraying sludge on our farmlands. They are spraying this sunday morning on the property that has the chicken houses right on the south side of Hwy. 64 about 8 miles west of Pittsboro, just past Payne’s
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:49:21 -0500 From: Paperbacksplus Subject: Siler City Farmers Market For Black Friday The SILER CITY FARMERS MARKET has once again moved inside at PAPERBACKS PLUS! for the year. Friday, November 25th the following vendors will be here during the hours of 11:00 to 1:00: PAM BRADY of MAZIE SOMMER SOAPS will have handmade herbal soaps
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:49:45 -0500 From: Phyllis Smith Subject: A Wintery Wonderland The Chatham County Extension and Community Association would like to invite you to their annual holiday gathering entitled “A Wintery Wonderland” on Tuesday, November 29th. The event will be hosted in the Chatham County Agriculture Building from 11:00am to 1:30pm. The general public is
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:54:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Norma Hawthorne Oaxaca Cultural Navigator LLC Subject: You are Invited: Permaculture Community Workday, Dec. 10 @ Blue Heron Farm. You are invited to attend a permaculture, community-workday at Blue Heron Farm Intentional Community on December 10th from 9 to 2. We will be sharing meals, learning about Edible Forest Gardens, then installing one on 2/3 acre. The goal is
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:32:05 -0800 (PST) From: Bett Wilson Foley Subject: Keeping cats out of your mulch In response to the post about keeping cats from digging up mulch, I have a couple of low-tech solutions that have worked for me. I tried lots of things, including keeping a pile of sand behind the shrubs in hopes
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 16:40:26 -0400 From: Al Cooke Subject: Re: Ladybugs! Asian lady beetles begin their search for safe winter harbor with cooling fall weather. To them the sunny side of light-colored buildings seems ideal, although dark colors as well as brick or stone will do. Scientists speculate that some chemical cues (such as the scent
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:17:10 -0500 From: nabooko Subject: . . Seldom do I stop- Stop working in the dirt that is. My Chatham garden is an on going project- Summer or winter, hot or cold- Seldom do I not find time to mess around in the dirt. Projects come and go. Project sometimes get finished- sometimes
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:00:53 -0400 From: Debra Henzey Subject: Chatham Nonprofits Urged to Apply for Farmland Preservation Grants Chatham County nonprofits interested in farmland preservation may be eligible for grants through the N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland and Preservation Trust Fund, according to Brenda Williams, director of the Chatham County Soil & Water Conservation District. The
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:50:44 -0400 From: Betty Cross Subject: Celebrate Green Central Trade Show and Tour Celebrate Green Central is the annual celebration of sustainability, green building, local businesses, and all things GREEN, through Central Carolina Community College’s Chatham County campus. Celebrate Green Central features a trade show, children’s activities, information, education, and a Green home
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:47:44 -0400 From: nabooko Subject: Bright spot in my garden . . I photographed this in my Chatham garden today. The plant is Salvia vanhouttei varigatta - Deciduous perennial- zone 9-10- (not hardy here- but can be wintered over in the house)- I don’t know the name of the spider but it is
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:06:04 -0400 From: Lauren Irby Subject: Chatham County 4-H member attends annual NCACC A 4-H’er from Chatham attended the second annual North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) Youth Summit, which was held in Concord, North Carolina August 19-20, 2011. North Carolina 4-H and the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service partnered for the
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 10:56:00 +0000 From: Virginia Mary Jacks Subject: Brilliance!! Thanks Robin for the generous post regarding the “Twas the Morning” poem. Female Rangers Rock!! I may be good at expressing in poetry, however, I could not even spell Mr. John Dykers name correctly in my post to him earlier. Forgive me. So you see