Don't miss our Home Garden Tour this Sunday, May 6th
May 03, 2012 07:36 AM
At the Slow Food Evening last Sunday we found out that one of the members has an garden from which they harvest vegetables almost all year round! They are offering a spring vegetable garden tour from 3-5 PM, this Sunday May 6.
2012 begins my fourth year of home gardening. Each year I am doing more things and finding new ideas to try:
1. rodent and deer proof fencing
2. seedlings indoors on heated seed bed and under lights
3. raised beds
4. cold frame lettuces being harvested now
5. cover cloths for winter protection
6. netting for bug protection
7. wintering over herbs
8. 'Garden of Eden' cabbage patch - I just set up a 2x8 bed this way
9. Rye cover crop - unless we till it in before Sunday
10. ceramic pots witha cloche for spinach and lettuces
11. wide row peas planted the beginning of March, now 4' tall, others planted later just starting to sprout
12. Garlic planted and mulched last fall up and growing one foot tall
13. Beginning pickings of 30 year old asparagus bed
We were able to have herbs and greens through December both this year and last year with the use of the cover cloths. And this year having set up the cold frame last fall we've been harvesting lettuce and herbs such as spinach, arugala, kale, asian greens, radishes, pea spouts, romaine, dear tongue lettuce, corn lettuce, parsley, rosemary,chives, sage, burnet, french sorrel since the first of March. I have full size plants of escarole and broccoli that will be ready for picking very early.
While the focus is on seeing the garden possibilities, we will offer some appetizer/snacks and welcome any food or beverage offerings. Guests are welcome to wander around the yard rain or shine.
Our home is off Holt Road in Webster, about 3 miles north of route 104.
Stan and Maria Raczka
1149 Hidden Valley Trail
Webster, NY 14580
For more information: call 585-330-4410
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2012 begins my fourth year of home gardening. Each year I am doing more things and finding new ideas to try:
1. rodent and deer proof fencing
2. seedlings indoors on heated seed bed and under lights
3. raised beds
4. cold frame lettuces being harvested now
5. cover cloths for winter protection
6. netting for bug protection
7. wintering over herbs
8. 'Garden of Eden' cabbage patch - I just set up a 2x8 bed this way
9. Rye cover crop - unless we till it in before Sunday
10. ceramic pots witha cloche for spinach and lettuces
11. wide row peas planted the beginning of March, now 4' tall, others planted later just starting to sprout
12. Garlic planted and mulched last fall up and growing one foot tall
13. Beginning pickings of 30 year old asparagus bed
We were able to have herbs and greens through December both this year and last year with the use of the cover cloths. And this year having set up the cold frame last fall we've been harvesting lettuce and herbs such as spinach, arugala, kale, asian greens, radishes, pea spouts, romaine, dear tongue lettuce, corn lettuce, parsley, rosemary,chives, sage, burnet, french sorrel since the first of March. I have full size plants of escarole and broccoli that will be ready for picking very early.
While the focus is on seeing the garden possibilities, we will offer some appetizer/snacks and welcome any food or beverage offerings. Guests are welcome to wander around the yard rain or shine.
Our home is off Holt Road in Webster, about 3 miles north of route 104.
Stan and Maria Raczka
1149 Hidden Valley Trail
Webster, NY 14580
For more information: call 585-330-4410
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New Monthly Series! Slow Food Evenings: Understanding and Changing our Food System
April 11, 2012 08:58 PM
The first of the Slow Food Rochester Evenings: Understanding and Changing Our Food System start this month - April 25th and 29th. These monthly meetings involve a potluck dinner where we discuss a film or reading, or have a speaker. The goal is to keep these group small and intimate, so we will offer two dates each month and space will be limited. RSVP is required! The April meetings will focus on healthy soil, the origin of all healthy food, and include two videos by Debra Coons Garcia: Soil in Good Heart and Walking and Talking with Vandana Shiva.
RVSP on this page
RVSP on this page
Its Ramp season in Rochester!
April 01, 2012 06:38 PM
April is the time for hunting for Wild Leeks, more commonly called ramps!
Learn more about ramps, where to find them, and how to cook them from Slow Food Rochester.
Interested in foraging? Here’s a great article on getting started in your own back yard!
Learn more about ramps, where to find them, and how to cook them from Slow Food Rochester.
Interested in foraging? Here’s a great article on getting started in your own back yard!
Join a CSA this year
February 26, 2012 09:07 AM
A CSA is a great, affordable way to have fresh, locally produced food throughout the season. And here’s a way to meet the farmers and find a CSA that fits your needs!
Rochester Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fair
Date: Saturday, March 3rd
Time: 3 PM- 6PM
Location: Third Presbyterian Church at 4 Meigs Street, Rochester, NY
Description:
Join NOFA-NY at Third Presbyterian Church on Meigs Street at our 2012 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fair! A CSA gives consumers the opportunity to receive high quality food straight from farms on a regular basis. The CSA fair gives consumers and farmers the opportunity to meet, and for the consumer to find the right CSA for them. Show your support for local farmers and food by attending this CSA Fair!
Contact: info@nofany.org
www.nofany.org/csafair
(585) 271-1979
Rochester Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fair
Date: Saturday, March 3rd
Time: 3 PM- 6PM
Location: Third Presbyterian Church at 4 Meigs Street, Rochester, NY
Description:
Join NOFA-NY at Third Presbyterian Church on Meigs Street at our 2012 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fair! A CSA gives consumers the opportunity to receive high quality food straight from farms on a regular basis. The CSA fair gives consumers and farmers the opportunity to meet, and for the consumer to find the right CSA for them. Show your support for local farmers and food by attending this CSA Fair!
Contact: info@nofany.org
www.nofany.org/csafair
(585) 271-1979
Come celebrate the rebirth of Slow Food Rochester with our Fall Farm Dinner on Saturday, September 24th
September 15, 2011 07:23 AM
Come eat as local as it gets -- right off the farm! Honeyhill Farm is a certified organic farm in Livonia and grows some of the best chickens you ever have tasted. Slow Food Rochester will be providing chicken right off the farm, and sweet corn from nearby. Please bring a dish made from healthy local ingredients to share: appetizers, salads, desserts, and/or beverages (local beer and wine allowed).
Dinner will start 5:30-6:00PM. Come early, from 4PM on, for farm tours and lively discussion. Come see how chickens and cows should be raised - out in the fields.
It is also just past Autumn equinox. As a celebration of this event, they'll be two large bonfires in the fields at dusk, weather allowing.
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Dinner will start 5:30-6:00PM. Come early, from 4PM on, for farm tours and lively discussion. Come see how chickens and cows should be raised - out in the fields.
It is also just past Autumn equinox. As a celebration of this event, they'll be two large bonfires in the fields at dusk, weather allowing.
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