The First Monday Workshop Series continues this fall at the Boscawen Municipal Complex (unless otherwise noted below) at 116 North Main Street in Boscawen. All workshops start at 6:30 PM (unless otherwise noted below). All talks are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. To register for talks, please contact the Boscawen Agriculture Commission at 753-9188 x301 or Agriculture03303@nullgmail.com.
August 5: Food Safety from Garden to Table. Deb Maes, UNH Cooperative Extension’s Regional Food Specialist, Food Safety, will include handling produce, selling at Farmers Markets when offering samples, storage, harvesting, and selling value added products. There will be limited information on food preservation.
For more on preserving food, please attend her workshop on August 15 at the UNH Cooperative Extension office.
Thursday, August 15: Preserving your Harvest. Deb Maes, UNH Cooperative Extension’s Regional Specialist, Food Safety, will cover the latest research-based methods and recipes, answer questions, and share information about preserving food safely at home, including jams and jellies, pickling, canning fruits and vegetables, and freezing and drying foods. This workshop is at the County Extension Office, 315 Daniel Webster Highway (Route 3), at the Merrimack County Facility from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Cost: $5 per person. Register ahead at 787-6944 or teresa.locke@nullunh.edu and pay at the door.
September 9: Care and Maintenance of your Small Engines and Garden Tools. Arthur Bonaceto has a good working knowledge of small engines and teaches you how to fix, service, and maintain small engines and garden tools – from tillers and lawnmowers, to weed whackers, lawn edgers, and chainsaws, to sharpening blades and tools. Come see how to save yourself expensive maintenance costs and get the best use of your implements.
October 7: History of Agriculture as Told by Barns. John Porter, author and Professor Emeritus of UNH Cooperative Extension, shares how the evolution of barn architecture tells the story of New Hampshire agriculture. Barns changed from the early English style to gambrel and then to pole barns to accommodate the changing agriculture. This presentation will be a chronological walk through time, with photo illustrations of barns around the state that are examples of these eras of agricultural history.
November 4: Perennial Vegetables for New Hampshire Gardens. Amy Papineau, Field Specialist, Food and Agriculture, of the UNH Cooperative Extension Office. Asparagus and rhubarb are just two of the many edible perennial plants that can be grown in New Hampshire. Amy will discuss incorporating perennial vegetables into your garden or landscape.
December 2: Growing Winter Vegetables in High Tunnels, Low Tunnels, Greenhouses, and Cold Frames. Amy Papineau of UNH Cooperative Extension will discuss the basics of growing winter vegetables in tunnels. Which vegetables work best? What to expect? How to get started? Amy will also share some results from winter vegetable production research being done at UNH.