Events

At the New Society Publishers booth at the Pennsylvania Mother Earth News Fair, demonstrating how to string weave tomatoes.
Photo Ingrid Witvoet/New Society

Events List Updated 6/1/19

June 1-2, 2019

Mother Earth News Fair, Frederick, Maryland

https://www.motherearthnewsfair.com/maryland/

Location: The Great Frederick Fair, 797 E Patrick St, Frederick, MD 21701

Two 60 min workshops

Lettuce Year Round

This presentation includes techniques to extend the lettuce season using row covers, cold frames, and hoop houses to provide lettuce harvests in every month of the year. The workshop includes a look at varieties for spring, summer, fall, and winter. Pam Dawling considers the pros and cons of head lettuce, leaf lettuce, baby lettuce mix, and the newer multileaf types. She also provides information on scheduling and growing conditions, including how to persuade lettuce to germinate when it’s too hot.

Cool Season Hoophouse Crops

Learn how to fill your hoop house with productive food crops in the cool seasons. Pam Dawling discusses suitable crops, cold-hardiness, selecting crops, calculating how much to harvest and how much to plant, crop rotation, mapping, scheduling, seasonal transitions, succession planting, interplanting, and follow-on cropping.

Book-signing

Demos at NSP booth, of tomato string-weaving and wigglewire system for fastening hoophouse plastic to framework

Friday July 19, 2019, 2019, 10 am to noon, followed by bag lunch

Tricycle Gardens Urban Ag Fellowship Tour of Twin Oaks Gardens (not open to the public)

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September 13-15,

2019 Mother Earth News Fair PA.

Lettuce Year-Round

Cool Season Hoophouse Crops

Book-signing

Demos at NSP booth, of tomato string-weaving and wigglewire system for fastening hoophouse plastic to framework

September 21-22, 2019

Heritage Harvest Festival , Monticello, Charlottesville, VA

Workshop with Ira Wallace

10:30 – 11:30 am Saturday in the Heritage Tent

Winter Gardening: No Tech to High Tech

Learn tips on growing cold-hardy vegetables (not only kale!) out in the open and with varying degrees of protection from rowcovers, low tunnels, coldframes and hoophouses (high tunnels). We’ll consider crop choices , planting dates and harvesting so there’s always something to eat for everyone from winter market gardeners to small backyard growers. We’ll explain ways to maximize production with succession planting, interplanting and follow-on cropping.

No extra fee for the workshop, included with the price of general admission

Booksigning

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