Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:50:15 -0400 From: Al Cooke Subject: Growing Berries Berries don’t get no respect. Fruit trees is what people want to plant. Why not? Well, first thing is fall is a better time to plant trees; berry plants can be planted now. Now is a good time to start preparing a
Agriculture
Photos from our Beekeeping School Field Day
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:56:24 -0500 From: Debbie Roos Subject: photos from our Beekeeping School Field Day To those who are interested…Chatham County Cooperative Extension and the Chatham County Beekeepers’ Association are conducting an 8-week Beekeeping School. We held a field day for our students on Saturday, the first day it has been warm enough to go
Register now for Pest Insect ID workshop
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:39:24 -0500 From: Debbie Roos Subject: register now for Pest Insect ID workshop! While tending your vegetable or cut flower crops on your farm or garden, do you ever find yourself wondering if that insect you encountered is friend or foe? Should I celebrate it or squish it, you ask yourself? Well now your
Worm Composting Workshop on March 12
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:10:35 -0500 From: Camille Armantrout Subject: Worm Composting Workshop March 12 The Abundance Foundation is hosting a Worm Composting Workshop Saturday, March 12, 2011 10am – 2pm at The Plant located at 192 Lorax Lane in Pittsboro, NC. Ben Reckendorf of Carolina Worm Castings will dig into the basics of backyard composting, including bins,
More agricultural workshops: ginger production & organic disease management
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:55:16 -0500 From: Debbie Roos Subject: more workshops: ginger production & organic disease management I just finalized the details for two more workshops for this spring: March 8: Ginger Production The Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension will offer a ginger production workshop as part of its Enhancing Sustainability Series on Tuesday, March
Local Edible & Medicinal Plants Class @ CCCC
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:04:45 -0500 From: Kim Calhoun Subject: Local Edible & Medicinal Plants Class @ CCCC Local Edible & Medicinal Plants Class Led by Kim Calhoun Thursdays, 5:30-8pm March 17th-May 5th (skipping 4/21) Central Carolina Community College, Pittsboro Branch Meet, eat, and drink some of the abundant edible and medicinal plants growing wild in the NC Piedmont with Community Herbalist Kim
Complete Gardener Classes Online
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:03:47 -0500 From: Al Cooke Subject: Complete Gardener Classes Online The first of our Complete Gardener Classes this year will be broadcast live on the web. At 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday February 8, In the Vegetable Garden will be broadcast live and will remain available online for a limited time. To
New website for pollinator garden
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
Strawberry season has arrived
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
Continuing Tree Saga
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
LOTS of Maple twigs get cut by hungry squirrels
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
Mysteries in the trees
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
Decline of elms is a common occurence
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
Slippery Elms dying
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
Mystery noise in Chatham County, NC
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
Taking the Fire out of Fire Ants
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
I’m interested in keeping chickens in my backyard
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
Time For The Mushrooms Again
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
Organic Modular Gardens Workshop April 17
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
Upcoming Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Training Program
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