Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: John Greenman
Issue: Plant Your Gardens
Program Topic: Organic gardening
Key Discussion Points:
a) When should we be preparing the soil? Should we “till” or not?
b) What grows well in Maine?
c) What do we do about pests if we want to be organic?
Guests:
Marjorie Peronto, Extension Educator
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Hancock and Washington Counties
63 Boggy Brook Road, Ellsworth, ME 04605-9540
207-667-821
marjorie.peronto@maine.edu
Dan Huisjen
B.S. Agricultural Engineering Technology, Cornell University
B.S. Environmental Science from University of Washington, Tacoma.
Gardener/small farmer, (Oregon) Master Gardener, a Community Garden site manager.
huisjen@gmail.com