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Presented by Wendy Grub. Guest fee:$5.00.

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Presented by Fred Buse. Guest fee $5.00. 

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  “Field Trip to Fordhook Farm (Burpee)”                                                                                 Tour Guide, Chunying Ling

Ling, the field research coordinator at Fordhook Farm of the W. Atlee Burpee Company, will give us a guided tour of the grounds and gardens and share the history of Burpee. The tour will begin at 10:00 am-12 noon. At the conclusion of the tour, we will have our own bag lunch on their veranda.  Another option for lunch is at the Del Val Market located across the street.  Afterwards, we are welcome to explore the gardens at our leisure.  We do need to be off the grounds by 3:00 pm.  Please note that Fordhook Farm is a working farm, so daily work activities continue throughout the tour. 

W. Atlee Burpee CompanyFordhook Farm

105 New Britain Rd, Doylestown, PA 18901

 We will make carpooling arrangements for this event.

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Presented by Janice Kelsey with Jody Spangler. This meeting WILL NOT be thru zoom.

Janice Kelseyis Co-Founder of the U.S. based non-profit Solar CITIES, Inc, is a mom to many, an educator, and currently working in the field of vertical aeroponic food growing.  Her background includes 25 years of alternative education and has been an active volunteer in Girl Scouts, Boys Scouts, Venture Crew and 4-H, as well as a former member of the Chester County Women’s Commission.  Janice is active in bringing together a network of eco-minded individuals from around the world.  She has earned her International Permaculture Design Certification, choosing to specialize in small-scale biodigestion.  Solar CITIES offers hands-on workshops in aeroponics, biogas, and a variety of other topics.  Her family’s home in Glenmoore, PA is open to tours of their outdoor IBC Tank Biodigester that provides fertilizer for their garden and gas for indoor cooking.

Janice will introduce us to small scale biogas.

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“Fall Gardening Clean Up”

Presented by Linc Coffin

Linc Coffin is a retired banker who enjoys golf in his spare time. He has been a master gardener for 9 years.

Linc will lead us through a relaxed and friendly review of the many tasks involved in a fall garden clean up, or as some folks refer to it, putting the garden to bed for the winter.  We will list tasks, ask why, then you can decide if you do those tasks and when do you do them.  Bring a pencil and your fall thinking cap.

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Program will be presented by Kathy Slane. She will present the best and unique ways to create floral arrangements with daisies.

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Presented by Charles Salvaterra

Charles and Denise Salvaterra became the sole growers of a rare tomato seed.  The seed was grown in the Salvaterra/Gennaro families for approximately 75 consecutive years. 

This presentation describes how the seed went from the brink of extinction to being distributed by Seed Sowers Exchange as a sale item as well as a seed shared through its exchange.  Seed samples are saved in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.

Charles is a retired elementary teacher, an organic gardener, and an organic apple and pear orchardist.

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