Are you hoping for a successful growing season in your home garden? Whether you are new to gardening or a veteran grower, Farmer Andrew has tips of the trade to help you improve your skills.
Andrew Johnson will discuss strategies for the New Hampshire garden. This is a great program for those planning to garden for the first time or folks who need encouragment to keep their gardens going this year.
He will give tips for those new to gardening and talk about his no-till method and other adaptations he has learned while farming in New England.
Andrew works the land at The Good Farm, located in Ashby, MA. CSA info here: https://thegoodfood.farm/.
About Andrew Johnson: Farm manager, Andrew Johnson, grew up in southern Minnesota. Though surrounded by industrial agriculture, he never imagined farming as a career path for himself. While getting a degree in industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California, he wrote a paper about Los Angeles' food system. This paper, and the research which supported it, planted a seed of interest and got him asking how he might be a part of improving the food system. Upon graduation, Andrew took his "dream" job as an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Thinking he'd be there for 3-5 years so he could save up and buy a farm, it wasn't but eight months into his engineering job when the pandemic hit. Andrew quit his job, left Los Angeles, and decided to dive into farming full-time. Before arriving in Massachusetts, he worked on and managed a couple of organic no-till veggie farms in Michigan and Connecticut.
Peterborough Town Library, located downtown at the corner of Main and Concord/Rt 202, has a large meeting room, study rooms, classroom, and a board room available to the public.
