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900 pounds of fresh picked Pears
Terry and Paul thinking about lugging fresh picked Pears to the truck for distribution to local feeding programs.
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Uploaded on Sep 13, 2009
Terry's Jarred Pears
Pears are easy to preserve. Peel, core, cut. Place the fruit in a jar with half inch of room at the...
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Uploaded on Sep 13, 2009
GB getting to the top where ladders and pickers could not reach
Paul sizing up the days work to come
Part of Soundkeeper's sustainability farm effort is to max out the existing permaculture scattered...
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Uploaded on Sep 13, 2009
Sustainability Farm Grant Award
Ms. Ellie, Terry and Farm community gardeners on award day.
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Uploaded on Aug 23, 2009
Sustainability Farm Grant
Group photo of award presentation. L to R Mayor Jim Miron, Ms. Ellie Hawthorne, Joan Presinsky, Terry Backer, Steph Phillips, Robyn Greenspan.
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Uploaded on Aug 23, 2009
Terry on Grant award day
Before the shock of the $11,000.00 gift to Soundkeeper. for sustainability work.
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Uploaded on Aug 23, 2009
Talking planting stratgies
Ms. Ellie and Terry talk over strategies for planting diversity and ways to deal with very wet weather.
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Uploaded on Aug 23, 2009
Kennabec Varity Potatoes
Despite the Late Blight I managed to get the potatoes harvested. The Late Blight may cause these...
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Uploaded on Aug 21, 2009
Potatoes for food pantry
When I dug these on August 21 it was so hot they were nearly baked already. They went quickly at the food pantry.
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Uploaded on Aug 21, 2009
Nice spuds
Even though I harvested the potatoes a few weeks earlier than I would have to keep ahead of the Late Blight they were really great.
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Uploaded on Aug 21, 2009
Surveying Late Blight Damage
This plot was tall and green a week ago. Late Blight fungus moves through a field with lightening...
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2009
Late Blighted Tomatoes rot before rippening
Late Blight is a fungus so our wet weather has not been any help. It attacks members of...
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2009
Plants collaspe and sag quickly.
Late Blight can be controlled with a power commercial fungicides if caught early. It moves so...
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2009
Late Blight Damage
The whole crop is a loss at the farm. Tomatoes won't ripen. The red in this tomato actual came after the fungus made the first brown scaly spot.
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2009
Terry potato field shows signs of Late Blight.
Terry's potatoes are showing Late Blight. They are about 70 days in from planting. We are trying an...
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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2009
