Kitchen Garden Tour: "Country Stimulus Garden"
Tuesday, September 8, 6:00-7:30pm
77 Halseyville Road, Enfield
Directions: Take Rt. 79 West from Ithaca, turn right onto Halseyville
at the detour. Park at 77 Halseyville Road in the driveway past the
house, by the shed. Meet at the shed and walk next door to the
garden. FREE! This garden will include a guided tour by the
owners. Neighbors Joan Adler, David Dietrich and Ann Rider have
joined forces to grow vegetables this season. They prepared the site
in fall with cardboard mulch topped with manure, tilled it in spring
and have been planting and enjoying produce ever since. The garden
has been yielding greens, peas, beans, cole crops, root crops with
more to come in fall for both fresh eating and winter preserving. So
that we may track interest, please pre-register by calling Tompkins
County Cornell Cooperative Extension at (607) 272-2292.
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NOTE: There are still a few spaces open in each of the final Kitchen
Garden Tours which feature gardens and root cellars. These tours
have a participation fee and are limited to 40 visitors each. Call
today and reserve your space for the following:
Kitchen Garden Tour: Home Food Gardening & Storage I
On Thursday, September 10 from 6:00-7:30 pm visitors may tour the
extensive vegetable and fruit gardens of Kathy, Bill and Dan Halton
in Danby. This site features a circular root cellar dug into the
hillside, and another built below ground in the home. The root
cellars are used to store root crops, beer, wine and rain water for
dyeing fibers. The Haltons also make their own electricity from
solar panels which stand inside the garden. Visitors must
pre-register for this tour by calling 607-272-2292. Tour fee for this
site is $5/person or $8/couple, limited to 40 visitors.
Kitchen Garden Tour: Home Food Gardening & Storage II
On Thursday, September 17 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm visitors may tour
Peasant Dreams Farm (www.peasantdreamsfarm.com) owned by David and
Katie Quinn-Jacobs in Ithaca. This farm focuses on root crops for
winter home storage and offers information about root
cellaring. They use certified organic seed and no chemical
fertilizers or pesticides. The gardens combine raised beds, raised
rows and larger crop plantings. The orchard includes apple, pear,
peach, pawpaw, northern kiwi, Cornellian cherry, and an assortment of
berries and nuts. The root cellar below their porch includes storage
areas for cool/dry and cool/moist storage required by different
crops. Chickens and Romney sheep provide manure to the gardens.
Visitors must pre-register for this tour by calling 607-272-2292.
Tour fee for this site is $5/person or $8/couple, limited to 40 visitors.
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