High schoolers to farms on a perfect spring day. Brilliant!
What connections and understanding of well-produced food and fiber can be fostered through meeting producers and seeing their craft first hand? PLENTY! Huge thanks to our education program director Joyce Bailey, of Shepherd's Hey Farm, Greg Glenn of Rocklands Farm Winery, and MCA's president Gene Kingsbury, 5th gen owner-operator of Kingsbury's Orchard.
What connections and understanding of well-produced food and fiber can be fostered through meeting producers and seeing their craft first hand? PLENTY! Huge thanks to our education program director Joyce Bailey, of Shepherd's Hey Farm, Greg Glenn of Rocklands Farm Winery, and MCA's president Gene Kingsbury, 5th gen owner-operator of Kingsbury's Orchard.
Gene shows students the fruit forming in the blossoms. He explains that the orchard practices integrated pest management in order to minimize chemical inputs. His use of mating band disrupters (pheromones) that stymie male peach borers has resulted in no chemical spraying for that devastating insect.
