On Wednesday evening, we held the second of three scheduled public twilight crop walks at Johnny's Research Farm in Albion, Maine.
Crop walks are a lot of fun for both us and customers. We had about 20 guests on Wednesday. There was food (local bread, cheese, cookies, and melons from our trials. We had a T-shirt and hat raffle. And, of course, we had some exhibitions: We demonstrated a cool, new, labor-saving tool -- the paper-pot transplanter. We held a grafted greenhouse tomato tasting. We also looked at kale, pepper, melon, and flower trials.
If you weren't able to attend, here are a few highlights:
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Johnny's product technician Steve talks peppers with a couple of guests. |
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A beautiful late summer bouquet. |
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Tasting grafted greenhouse tomatoes. |
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Steve discusses Johnny's pepper trials. |
The next crop walk is slated for October 20 from 3 to 5:30 p.m. The focus will be on storage crops and season extension methods. If you can't make it to the public crop walks,
the farm is also open for self-guided tours.
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