Pam Dawling
Twin Oaks Community
Virginia Association for Biological Farming
Pam Dawling has grown vegetables at Twin Oaks Community, central Virginia for 27 years, feeding 100 people from 3.5 acres. She is the author of Sustainable Market Farming and The Year-Round Hoophouse. She is a contributing editor with Growing for Market magazine, a workshop presenter, and a weekly blogger on www.sustainablemarketfarming.com.
Pam is speaking in Pennsylvania, Kansas and is a contributor to Mother Earth News Fair Online.Workshops
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Winter Cover Crops for Gardeners
Select cover crops to sow in fall to smother weeds, feed and improve the soil, and prevent erosion. Choose reliable cover crops for your climate and crop rotation, and plan when to sow them for best results. Join Pam Dawling to learn about winter-killed cover crops, hardy grasses, legumes, and how to undersow in growing food crops.
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Tasks, Harvests, and Perennial Crops Plans
Packing More In: Interplanting, relay planting, double cropping (follow-on crops), season extension, succession plantings
Maps, Crop Rotations, and Harvest Schedule
Measure your garden space and consider the main crops you want to grow so you can figure out a crop rotation that will take care of the soil and your crops. This information will enable you to draw up a list of what you can harvest when - the best approach to what to plant!
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How Much to Grow of What: Plant spacing, seed storage, inventory, and orders
Growing Transplants and Scheduling Seedlings
This workshop provides the information you need on equipment and scheduling to grow sturdy transplants. Raising hundreds (thousands?) of small plants with a manageable work flow can bring hours of enjoyment, leading to months more of enjoyment later in the year.
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Garden Goals: How to plan? Which crops to grow?
In this introduction, Pam Dawling talks about thinking ahead, before the start of the garden season. Knowing what you hope to do, where and when, will help you be calm, well-organized and successful, retaining the lessons from your experience from one year to the next.
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Feeding the Soil
Learn ways to grow and maintain healthy soils: how to develop a permanent crop rotation in seven steps, and why your soil will benefit from this; how to choose appropriate cover crops; how to make compost and how to benefit from using organic mulches to feed the soil.
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Cover Crops for Vegetable Growers
Use cover crops to feed and improve the soil, smother weeds, and prevent soil erosion. Select cover crops to make use of opportunities year-round: early spring, summer, fall, and going into winter. Fit cover crops into the schedule of vegetable production while maintaining a healthy crop rotation.
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Cool Season Hoophouse Crops
How to fill your hoophouse with productive food crops in the cool seasons. Suitable crops; cold-hardiness; selecting crops; calculating how much to harvest, how much to plant; crop rotation; mapping; scheduling; seasonal transitions; succession planting and follow-on cropping.
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Contingency Planning: Making your garden the best possible and using records to make next year better
In this round-up workshop, Pam urges us to prepare for surprises and gives cameos of aspects that also deserve attention, such as soil health, cover crops, compost, sustainable pest and disease management, DIY weather-forecasting and cold weather crop protection.
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Calculating Sowing Dates to Meet Your Harvest Dates: Schedule your outdoor planting
In this session, Pam explains how to work back from the dates you want to harvest, to determine when to sow, and create an outdoor planting schedule. We will weigh the pros and cons of direct sowing and transplanting, and start to consider ways to ensure continuous supplies of crops that can be planted more than once during the year.
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This presentation includes techniques to extend the lettuce season using rowcover, shadecloth, coldframes and hoophouses to provide lettuce harvests in every month of the year. The workshop will include a look at varieties for spring, summer, fall and winter. We will consider the pros and cons of head lettuce, leaf lettuce, baby lettuce mix and the newer multileaf types. Information will also be provided on scheduling and growing conditions, including how to persuade lettuce to germinate when it's too hot, and the Asian greens used as lettuce in tropical climates.
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