Farm2Table Sites for Box Pick-up

Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative
Gathering Sites for Box Pick-up

Here are the Gathering Sites, days and hours. If you know you need to change from the site on your subscription, please notify info@sandhillsfarm2table.com immediately.
These are starting points for time. You will be contacted by your gathering sites shortly with specific directions and instructions. If you really need a different time talk to your site coordinator. If the needs of the site community are different from the starting point, adjustments will be made.  If you are not contacted by your site by Friday, please let us know at info@ as above.

Gathering Sites:
Wednesdays
Pinehurst - Village Chapel Noon to 2:30
Robbins - Deep River Coffee 3 to 6
Carthage - Ag Center 3:30 to 6:30
Southern Pine - SP Elementary 3 to 6
Aberdeen - Poplar Knight Spot 3:30 to 6:30

Thursdays
West End - WE Presbyterian Church 3 to 6
Pinehurst - PElementary School 4 to 6:30
Vass/ Whisper P - New Mathews Mkt. 3 to 6

Farmer's Mkt, SCC, Wednesdays

The Sandhills' Farmers Green Market Go Green with Sandhills!
Wednesdays ALL SUMMER until August 25th (except Wednesday, July 7th)
Aristotle Parking Lot, Sandhills Community College
Call John Frye for more information 910-949-2185
Or email aussiefryefamily@gmail.com

10th Annual Vermiculture Conference, Durham, May 27-28

Register by April 22 to save $50 off the conference registration fee....
NCSU's 10th Annual Vermiculture Conference - May 27-28, 2010 - Durham, NC
- Dr. Clive Edwards (Ohio State University): "The Effects of Vermicompost and Vermicompost 'Teas' on Plant Pests and Diseases."

- Dr. Norman Arancon (University of Hawaii): Vermicompost and teas effects on plant growth and pest/disease suppression.

- Jeff Budzich (WeCare Organics, Pennsylvania): Systems design, technological and operating parameters, and process characteristics of the Class A stabiliation of biosolids through vermicomposting.-- generating a high quality, high value end product.

- Dr. Suneet Dabke (Fulbright Scholar from India): Bioremediation of contaminated soils via vermitechnology.

- John Harris (Harris Worm Farm, North Carolina): Low-cost, mid-scale outdoor worm farming.

- Tom Herlihy (RT Solutions-Worm Power, New York): Dairy manure vermicomposting, continuous-flow reactors, marketing vermicompost, vermicompost tea.

- Jamie Melvin (Sansai Environmental Technologies, Ohio): Vermicomposting food residuals, yard debris, cardboard and other materials in indoor windrows; selling vermicompost and tea.

- Mark Purser (The Worm Farm, California): Indoor and outdoor windrows, applying feedstocks, harvesting and sales.

- Maria Rodriguez (Byoearth, Guatemala, Central America): "Fostering Entrepreneurship and Social Change via Vermiculture." Adding value to degradable waste found in Guatemala City's garbage dump through the empowerment of women with the experience "Fertilize Your Future."

- Dr. Sarah Sathyavathi (India): Vermicomposting biosolids and its use in plant growth.

- Rhonda Sherman (NC State Univ.) - "The Status of Vermicomposting in North America."
See conference website for speaker bios, registration, accommodations, etc.:

http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/workshops/worm-conference/
Questions:
Rhonda Sherman
Biological & Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University
rhonda_sherman@ncsu.edu (best way to reach me)
(919) 515-6770
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/people/faculty/sherman

Help! I Need Your Recycled Pots

I've completely run out of small individual pots for marketing seedlings.  AND I can't even find paper Dixie cups to substitute, they're all plastic, even the little bathroom size.  The last thing I want to do is supply more plastic and/or styrofoam to the landfill!  PLEASE recycle to me your plastic pots as you plant your annual beds.
Thanks soooo much.  It's urgent!  Market opens this coming Satruday.

An Article about Raven's Wing and Farm Up

http://voiceofmoorecounty.com/2010/03/31/like-mother-like-daughter/

Recycle to Keep Prices Low

Help me keep prices down at the Farmers' Market!  Recycle to me your small plastic pots and black plastic holding trays.  (Recycler can't take those black things anyway.)
You can drop them off at Farm Up, 345 N Page or bring them to the Saturday Market, downtown Sou Pines.
I could also a few gallon milk jugs, too.  They make great water dippers.
Thanks a MILLION!  Maureen

Terrific Article on DE

http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp

Follow These Heroes

http://www.jamieoliver.com/campaigns/jamies-food-revolution/heroes