Bring back the family vegetable garden.
Learn how to provide nutritious food for your family in your own back yard.

Workshop #1
March 24, 2009
6 PM at Battlefield Bed & Breakfast
How to Start Your Garden

Finch Services will provide information about how to prepare your soil and plant your seeds. Bulk seeds will be available by the scoop. Local gardeners will be invited to form a support group to help problem-solve throughout the gardening season.
No charge, but RSVP required.  717 334-8804

Workshop #2
March 31, 2009
6 PM at Battlefield Bed & Breakfast
What to Plant to Feed Your Family
How many rows of corn, and how many square feet of potatoes can your family eat?
How do you organize your garden and cycle your vegetables so you maximize the amount of food that you can produce for your family.
No charge, but RSVP required.  717 334-8804

Workshop #3
May 2009
6 PM at Battlefield Bed & Breakfast
How Do You Take Care of Your Garden?
Your garden is filled with sprouted seeds and baby plants. 
How do you nurture and protect your plants?
No charge, but RSVP required.  717 334-8804


Fieldtrip
Gardeners will visit the Lavender Festival to see how the pros do it--and to hear David Hirsch talk about The Kitchen Garden.
June 19, 2009

WILLOW POND--FAIRFIELD PENNSYLVANIA

THE 2009 PENNSYLVANIA LAVENDER FESTIVAL


DAVID HIRSCH, AUTHOR OF THE MOOSEWOOD RESTAURANT KITCHEN GARDEN,

TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER/DEMONSTRATOR


"...if I can't get to the lavender fields of Provence, in France, Willow Pond Farm in Fairfield, Pa., will do just fine."  The New York Times, July 26, 2008


            The 2009 Pennsylvania Lavender Festival will be held June 19-21, 2009 at Willow Pond Farm in Fairfield, PA, ten minutes west of historic Gettysburg and only 90 minutes from Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD.

            This year's keynote speaker will be David Hirsch. co-owner of the Moosewood Restaurant and the author of The Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden which offers information on growing, harvesting, and cooking vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers.  David's demonstrations will include Summer Cooking With Fresh Herbs and Cooking with Herbs of the Mediterranean.  Moosewood, located in Ithaca, NY, was one of the original organic vegetarian restaurants in the U.S.

            The only such event in the eastern U.S., the Festival offers myriad sensory delights with three acres of lavender in bloom.  Participants are encouraged to enjoy Willow Pond Farm's lavender fields and herb demonstration gardens, attend lectures and workshops by internationally acclaimed experts, and shop at the "Lavender Tent" and at the dozen juried outside vendors.

            Tom and Madeline Wajda, owners of Willow Pond Farm, will lecture on growing, harvesting, and cooking with lavender.  Arlene Bobonich, MD, will discuss the aromatherpeutic effects of lavender.

            Susannah Reppert, Cathy Olson, Sylvia Braderman, Michael Chapman, Linda Guise, Don Brubaker, and chef Joe Renfroe will offer lectures, demonstrations, and workshops on lavender crafting, herbal teas, bonsai, garden photography, organic gardening, and herbal cuisine.



            Cut your own lavender from the farm's three acre field; start your own lavender bed with some (or all) of the farm's nearly 100 certified organic varieties including 'Rebecca Kay,' 'Madeline Marie,' and 'Two Amys,' all developed at  Willow Pond.



            Admission is $5.00; children 12 and under attend for free.  Please, no dogs.  Free parking at Fairfield school and free shuttle to the farm.  Herbal picnic fare (prepared by Chef Joe Refroe of the York Culinary Institute) will be available for purchase or you can bring your own lunch