People, Pests, Products – My Visits to VT Vegetable and Berry
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People, Pests, Products – My Visits to VT Vegetable and Berry Farms in 2010 Vern Grubinger Vegetable and Berry Specialist
Transcript of People, Pests, Products – My Visits to VT Vegetable and Berry
People, Pests, Products – My Visits toVT Vegetable and Berry Farms in 2010
Vern GrubingerVegetable and Berry Specialist
Pete Johnson, Pete’s Greens, Craftsbury
http://www.petesgreens.com/Fire.html
flooded salad mix, the Intervale, Oct. 2010
it’s cold out there, but it’ll warm up soon…
common problem: poor drainage around greenhouses:
this can lead to heat loss from soil in the houses!
Hank Bissell, Lewis Creek Farm, Starksboro
Thomas Case, Arethusa Farm, Burlington
Joey Klein, Littlewood Farm, Plainfield
Sally Colman, Cate Farm, Plainfield
Merrill Legare, Legare’s Farm Market, N. Montpelier
John Adams, Adams Orchard & Farm Market, Williston
3”x5” yellow sticky traps $10 for 25 from Gemplers
$19 for 48 from Griffin Greenhouse
Peggy Adams with “Produce Pass’
Shawn Lavigne & Paul Mazza
Paul Mazza’s Fruits & Vegetable, Essex Jct.
Norma Norris, Norris Berry Farm, Monkton
Rob Meadows, Sunshine Berry Farm, Rochester
Campagnola Tronic Star electronic pruner
Ginny Cleland & yours truly
Four Springs Farm, Royalton
looks good, feels good, what’s in it?
saturated media test results ($12 at UMass soils lab)
Howard Prussak, High Meadows Farm, Westminster West
nematode damage to garlic
Christa Alexander, Jericho Settlers Farm, Jericho
Christa & Mark Fasching at Jericho Settlers Farm
a nifty product labeling system
David Blais, Blais Produce, Springfield
between-bed cultivator,
pulled by 4-wheeler
Mara & Spencer Welton, Half Pint Farm, Burlington
Sudax, oats, and field pea combination
Jillian Abraham, Small Step Farm, Waitsfield
Chip Natwig, Pebble Brook Farm, Northfield
Chris Piana, Fable Farm, Barnard
field peas for late summer/fall cover
Green Mountain Girls Farm, Northfield
Emily Curtis Murphy & Matt Yetman, E. Calais The farm is an L3C Low-Profit Limited Liability Company
Adam Hausman, Adam’s Berry Farm, Burlington
strawberries in a haygrove tunnel
first year berries to be covered with Haygrove next year
John LaRue, Covered Bridge Berry Patch, Underhill
Joe Tisbert, Valley Dream Farm, Cambridge
Tony Lehoullier, Foote Brook Farm, Johnson
TPB feeding injury on Swiss chard
Pooh Sprague, Edgewater Farm
caliente mustard – biofumigant?
Edgewater Farm, Plainfield NH
perimeter insulation: a good idea
but bows must be deep-seated
Bob Gray, Four Corners Farm, S. Newbury
Kim Gray, Four Corners Farm, S. Newbury
Geo Honigford, Hurricane Flats, S. Royalton
Pediobius is a commercially, though expensive, biological control for Mexican bean beetle. The Green Spot in NH is one source
how can tomato root disease make you this happy?
Ann Hazelrigg at Pomykala Farm, Grand Isle
Jake Guest, Killdeer Farm, Ely
hairy vetch
Mimi Arnstein, Wellspring Farm CSA, Marshfield
fall oats sown after beds harvested
Victor Chaput, Charlotte Berry Farm, Charlotte
ryegrass alleys
Sue Hawkins, UVM Extension office, Brattleboro
2-row deep zone tillage unit
it weighs a ton, takes 85+ hp to lift, and to pull at a good clip
Sam Lincoln, Lincoln Family Farm, Randolph Center
Becky Madden, Intervale Community Farm, Burlington
with LDJ corn furnace
Paul Betz, High Ledge Farm, Woodbury
Mike Collins, Old Athens Farm, Putney
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