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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