The Danbury Garden and Farm Days will be held on Saturday, August 13, from 9 AM to 6 PM, and on Sunday, August 14, from 10 AM to 5 PM.

Guest Speakers & Demos. Visit Local Vegetable & Flower Gardens & Farms.

Sat, August 13

Free event sponsored by the Danbury Historical Society ~ copies of the schedule available at the North Road Schoolhouse Museum, 440 North Rd or Danbury Country Store, 705 Rt. 4, Danbury, NH.

9:00 – 10:00 am Ann Jule ~ Permaculture George Gamble Library

29 NH Route 104, Danbury. Discussion on permaculture & Danbury Grows initiative. Stop off for some coffee & pastries.

10:00 – 11:30 am Stanley & Samantha Phelps Farm ~ Maple Sugar Shack, garlic, greenhouse, cows & a variety of gardens. 53 Raged Mt. Road, Danbury.

A working farm that produces vegetables & herbs from early spring to the late fall. Learn about farming & enjoy a tour of these special gardens.

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eric & Erin Wiswall ~ Haunting Whisper Wine Vineyards

77 Oak Ridge Rd, Route 4, Danbury. Guided tour of their grape vineyard & wine tasting room. White, red & fruit wines. Beautiful rolling hills.

1:30 – 2:30 pm Janette Hillsgrove ~ Rhubarb & Asparagus: Danbury Community

Center, 15 High Street, Danbury. Perennial vegetables plus soil Improvement. Asparagus & rhubarb are perennial vegetables that produce a new crop year after year. Learn tips on best soil conditions plus how & where to plant them for a good harvest.

3:00 – 4:00 pm Ken Cook ~ Rusty’s Heirloom Tomatoes: Danbury Community Center, 15 High Street, Danbury. Ken will talk about his “Cross-Hemisphere Dwarf Tomato Project” & how they are developing tomato varieties with heirloom tastes.

4:00 – 5:00 pm Amy Papineau ~ Supporting Pollinators in the Landscape

Danbury Community Center, 15 High Street, Danbury. Amy Papineau UNH Cooperative Extension. Amy will discuss the many types of bees that you may find in your garden, the role of these insects in the environment, & how you can design your garden to provide pollinators with the resources they need.

Danbury Garden & Farm Days

Sunday, August 14

5:00 – 6:00 pm Stephen Polizzi ~ Double Z Blueberry Ranch 77 Brad Chase Rd, Danbury. Pick your own blueberry farm. Thousands of cultivated high-bush and wild blueberries of 7 different varieties.

You can attend one of these presentations or all of them. It’s up to you!

10:00 – 10:30 am Janette Hillsgrove: Herbs North Road Schoolhouse Museum,

440 North Road, Danbury. Discussion on growing herbs & some examples in our community garden. Also medicinal uses of herbs in history.

10:30 – 11:00 am Historical Tools: North Road Schoolhouse Museum

440 North Road, Danbury. Displays of tools used on the farm in the 1800s & 1900s. Farmers cultivated their land with crude wooden plows or hand held hoes, sowed seeds by hand & used oxen, mules & draft horses for power.

11:00 am – 12:30 pm Susan & Keith Cutting: Honey & Honey Bees

North Road Schoolhouse Museum, 440 North Road, Danbury. Beekeepers Susan and Keith Cutting of Cutting Farm, West Springfield, NH will talk about honey bees & their delicious harvest. Learn how to set up & maintain your own honey bee colony.

12:30 – 1:30 pm Jim Ramanek: Shiitake Mushrooms and Ginger North Road Schoolhouse Museum, 440 North Road, Danbury. Jim Ramanek, Master Gardener and owner of Warner River Organics, will offer this free workshop on growing shiitake mushrooms. Find out how easy it is to cultivate edible mushrooms using logs, stumps, & the moist shade of your wooded property or shaded back of the garage. You will also learn how to select wood, location, tools, & supplies. Jim will present the whole process of drilling, plugging, waxing, stacking, waiting & forcing. You will learn about other mushrooms you can grow & receive information on suppliers for plug spawn.

1:30 – 2:30 pm Sophie Didicoi Viandier: Permaculture North Road Schoolhouse Museum, 440 North Road, Danbury. Sophie will describe her techniques in farming & the basics of home scale permaculture methods. Grow healthy, bountiful, beautiful landscapes & learn about regenerative agriculture. Sophie is the owner & director of the Pay it Forward Farm in Andover, NH.

3:00 – 4:00 pm Hope Farm ~ Mariah Haley: Oxen Demonstration

86 Walker Brook Road, Danbury. Oxen were used on the farm to plow the fields for initial soil cultivation & working around the homestead pulling loads. Mariah will give her team of oxen commands to demonstrate how oxen could be used to haul large stones, carts, cultivate, skid logs, & pull almost anything on a farm.

4:00 – 5:00 pm Hope Farm ~ Tom Curren & Kathy Neustadt

86 Walker Brook Rd, Danbury. Chickens, heirloom vegetables & historical homestead. A complex of beaver ponds surrounded by forests & brooks, which was an attractive location for early settlers. The farm is used for pasturing, hay, vegetable gardens, orchards, & includes Hereford cows, Romney sheep, & NH Red hens.