Want to learn to compost? Here’s a great video from Rodale’s Organic Gardening. Many of our community gardeners have a compost pile right in their community garden plot.
We compost large-scale at Lafayette: we have two “Earth Tub” composting units that compost all of the food waste from the Farinon and Marquis Dining halls!
Photo of Earth Tub Composting Units from article on Lafayette Website "Turning Food Scraps into Compost"
I was fortunate enough to have the chance to attend and participate in the 2011 Women in Sustainable Agriculture Conference presented by the Pennsylvania Women’s Agricultural Network (PA-WAGN) this week. I traveled to Penn State in State College, PA on Sunday through Tuesday night. It was SO great to connect with women across the state and the US involved in farming. I went to a intensive workshop all day on Monday called the Adventures in Marketing Learning Clinic and then several workshops on Tuesday. I also spoke on a panel called Developing and Managing an Educational and Production-Oriented Farm for Institutions with Jennifer Halpin (Dickinson College) and Alice Julier (Chatham University). It was really exciting to share our story!! 🙂
Hello Gardeners and local, healthy food enthusiasts,
This Saturday is the Bethlehem VegFest! The first festival of its kind in the area. One of our very own Community Gardeners wrote an article about it here!!
Thanks to Carrie Havranek!
Hey Community Gardeners,
Planting Fall crops? Go ahead!! Here’s our Freeze/Frost info.
Thanks to the US Climate Data Center.