Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:57:01 -0500
From: Debbie Roos
Subject: Register now for Ginger, Galangal, & Turmeric Workshops!

For complete details and registration information for these workshops, visit the Growing Small Farms website at http://bit.ly/qb7UB.

I am excited to be teaming up again with Susan Anderson of East Branch Ginger to offer more specialty crop workshops for growers!

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:39:45 -0500
From: Paperbacksplus
Subject: Farmers’ Market at Paperbacks Plus!

Valentines Day is getting closer!! Come out to the Farmers’ Market at Paperbacks Plus! this Friday from 11 – 1. MAZIE SUMMER SOAPS will be taking orders for custom baskets that can include her soaps, milk bath, room & linen sprays, lip balms, scrubbies, lotion bars and more. You pick the combo you want and she will supply the basket and arranging. Orders must be placed by Feb 3rd for Feb 10th pick up. She can also include items from JOAN THOMPSON such as jams, jellies, pickles, relishes or homemade fudge. Joan will be here this Friday, as usual, with all her sweet and yeast breads, muffins, cookies as well as a large selection of her jams, jellies, pickles and relishes. Make a Valentines Day basket with some of the most delicious jams and jellies for your sweetheart…or for yourself! While you are here look for a book to include with your basket and make someone’s day complete.

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:25:00 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: pattipatti
Subject: Re: Thanks shoppers, now recruiting vendors & sponsors!

Dear Chatlist readers:

The Chatham Mills Farmers’ Market want to thank the community for supporting our first year as a Saturday market in downtown Pittsboro.  In 2012 we will re-open April 14 and run every Saturday thru November 17.  

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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:46:23 -0500
From: Piedmont Biofarm
Subject: New CSA starting

Greetings fellow Chathamites. Did you know that you could get lots of fresh veggies in January? Well you can and I want to let everyone know about our great year-round CSA here at Piedmont Biofarm. We are a  sustainable farm with a focus on organic practices, season extension and breeding plants for our region.

 Head farmer Doug Jones was CFSA farmer of the year in 2009. . Unlike most CSA’s we set up a table and let you, the custumer, choose from a number of veggies instead of giving you what we think you want.

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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:14:39 -0500
From: Debbie Roos
Subject: Register now for Natural Beekeeping Workshop on Jan. 28

The Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension will offer a Natural Beekeeping workshop as part of its Enhancing Sustainability Series on Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 10:00 am-4:30 pm in the auditorium of the Agriculture Building in Pittsboro.

This course is intended for beekeepers who want to learn more about how to manage their hives naturally. The national Certified Naturally Grown (CNG) organization recently developed a Natural Beekeeping (Apiculture) Standard. The primary focus of Natural Beekeeping is the health of the honey bees and the sustainability of beekeeping.

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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:43:43 -0500
From: Debbie Roos
Subject: small flock poultry workshop Jan. 19

Registration details for this workshop are on the Growing Small Farms website calendar at http://bit.ly/19Y7lt

If you have questions about this workshop please contact Poultry Agent Dan Campeau at 919-548-9895 or dan_campeau@ncsu.edu<mailto:dan_campeau@ncsu.edu>.

January 19, 2012: Small Flock Poultry Workshop from 9:30 am-3:30 pm at the Harnett County Cooperative Extension office in Lillington, NC. Conducted by North Carolina Cooperative Extension.

Agenda:

9:30 am Registration

10:15 am Forage Species, Management – Dan Campeau, NCSU

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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:09:18 -0500
From: Kaufman, Brystana
Subject: re: Cooperative gardening?

The Garden of Concord is just north of Chatham County in Eli Whitney, and we have a couple members who come up from Chatham.

The lead gardener is currently pursuing a degree in sustainable agriculture at CCCC, and she has done an amazing job! We have chickens and bees and kids activities, my family loves it. The 2012 “Wake up the Garden” tour and celebration is coming up on March 3, 2012. Even if you aren’t a member, we welcome visitors. Take the 87 North, turn right at the stoplight on Old Greensboro/Chapel Hill road, and it’s on the left by Concord Methodist.

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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:13:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Walton Haywood
Subject: Second Winter Tree ID Walk Is Full

Chatlisters,

The Second Tree ID Walk is Full! Thanks to everyone who signed up. Sorry we can’t accommodate all who are interested. We must have hit a nerve because there is a lot of interest in a winter outing in Chatham County. Also thanks to the Chatlist, it really works!

Walton Haywood,
The Grand Trees of Chatham

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Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:20:34 -0500
From: Dwain Ritchie
Subject: spraying sludge

I see that Synagro is still out here in Chatham County spraying sludge on our farmlands.  They are spraying this sunday morning on the property that has the chicken houses right on the south side of Hwy. 64 about 8
miles west of Pittsboro, just past Payne’s Antique Glass.  This land is adjacent to my property. I wish there was something that could be done to stop the poisoning of the land.  Dependant of where the sludge comes
from (last year from Holly Springs) the testing they do before it is applied may not cover all the stuff that could possibly be in the sludge.  Especially if there are industrial facilities in the area of the sewage plant.

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:49:21 -0500
From: Paperbacksplus
Subject: Siler City Farmers Market For Black Friday

The SILER CITY FARMERS MARKET has once again moved inside at PAPERBACKS PLUS! for the year. 

Friday, November 25th the following vendors will be here during the hours of 11:00 to 1:00:

PAM BRADY  of MAZIE SOMMER SOAPS will have handmade herbal soaps and bath products.

GAMGEE GARDENS will be here with dried herbs and pecans.

SILK HOPE ORGANICS will have sweet potatoes, broccoli, lettuce, and other greens along as well as garlic.

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