Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:45:51 -0400 From: madkrowt@aol.com Subject: Forestry is considered agriculture okay, I am starting on the easy one. Neither the county NOR Pittsboro have jurisdiction over forestry which is considered agriculture, specifically silviculture. NOR do any of you nosy whatevers have a NEED to know what someoneContinue Reading

Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 04:08:29 +0000 From: Debbie Roos Subject: Photos from our 1st Annual Chatham County Spring Ag Fest The 1st Annual Chatham County Spring Ag Fest<https://growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/2018/02/join-us-for-our-chatham-county-spring-ag-fest-march-24/> on March 24, 2018 at the Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center was a huge success with an estimated crowd ofContinue Reading

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:28:52 -0400 From: “N.A. Booko” Subject: One thing leads to another . . . Last year I decided I wanted to have lots of ‘Cup and Saucer’ -‘ Canterbury Bells’ flowers. Botanical name is Campanula calycanthema. A tall foxglove like flower. It is biannual, meaningContinue Reading

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:33:32 -0500 From: arcooke@ncsu.edu Subject: Philip Dark We have recently learned that Philip Dark of Oakmont Nursery (Hwy 64, east of Siler City) has been recognized as Grower of the Year by the North Carolina Nursery and Landscape association.  Philip and the Nursery were recognized forContinue Reading

Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:32:58 -0500 From: “N.A. Booko” <nabooko@mindspring.com> Subject: The Garden In January . . . I looked around at my Chatham Garden today – after much of the snow was melted. Seems there has been some damage with the storm. Not from the thickness of theContinue Reading

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:13:30 +0000 From: Debbie Roos Subject: summer snapshots from Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Garden Chatham County Center Chatham County Cooperative Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Garden<https://growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/growingsmallfarms-pollinatorgarden/> in Pittsboro attracts an amazing diversity of critters. I love taking and sharing photos of the garden to help raise awareness andContinue Reading

Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:05:49 -0400 From: Chatham County Extension Master Gardener Volunteers Subject: apples and cedars This actually sounds like cedar-apple rust. Cedar trees and apples are the hosts of this fungus. It first forms on the cedar tree, and then infects the apples, which shrivel and dieContinue Reading