Gardening at Longwood can be s-o-o-o tough...
Submitted by Dick Wanner on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 2:36pm.
Five fellows in the University of Delaware's Longwood Graduate Program took off last Monday for a three-week learning tour of public horticulture institutions in China. The group includes two people from the Lancaster Farming readership area - Shari Edelson was working as a curator intern at the Swarthmore College Scott Arboretum in Swarthmore before taking off to China, and Keelin Purcell of Delmar, N.Y., was working at Longwood with their school and youth programs.
The fellows will be accompanied by two representatives from Longwood Gardens, and they'll visit a wide variety of public gardens in Beijing, Kunming, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Shanghai. In addition to touring the grounds, they will meet with upper level managers of the gardens, and representatives from the Chinese Institute of Botany.
The fellows will be blogging about their experiences throughout the trip.
Check it out. And if you've got two years to spare, you might want to download one of those graduate program applications. I would, but I don't think the paper would let me go that long. Or maybe they'd forget who I was.
When Molly Harris started her Edible Garden restaurant in Richmond, Va., four years ago, her goal was to serve her customers locally produced farm products. Harris's customers liked her menu, they liked that she referred them to her suppliers when they wanted to cook at home, and business was going well. Then the economy went so far south we could all see penguins in the distance. But Molly took action, and Lancaster Farming correspondent Jennifer Merritt tells her story in our current edition.
They never quite delivered on the thundering stampede, but this was fun... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh58RctY1_k
The pitchfork philosopher says... Never buy a cow from a guy named "Slick."
