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  • From: "Don Lareau" <dlareau AT tds.net>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Missoula, Montana garden farming
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:03:58 -0600

Check out this farmer she is amazing and not far from Missoula. You can
check out http://wsare.usu.edu/ and look by year and state to find out more.
This is a great organization and they exist for every part of the country.
Missoula is amazing but seriously zone four!

Montana
Farmer/Rancher Grant: FW06-025, Agroecosystem Approach to Managing Imported
Cabbage Worm (Peris rapae), Helen Atthowe, project coordinator, Biodesign
Farm, 1541 South Burnt Fork Rd., Stevensville, MT 59870, (406) 777-3723
begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (406) 777-3723
end_of_the_skype_highlighting, atthowe AT montana.com; Sue Blodgett, technical
advisor, IPM Specialist, Montana State University, P.O. Box 172900, Bozeman,
MT 59717-2820, (406) 994-2402 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting
(406) 994-2402 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, BLODGETT AT montana.edu.
Western SARE funding: $6,356

Imported cabbage worm, a pest of broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and
related plants in the mustard family, is said to be the most destructive of
the cabbage worms found in the Intermountain West and the High Plains. Most
producers use insecticides to combat cabbage worms, and even certified
organic producers use repeated applications of Bt - bacillus thuringiensis.
Many natural predators and parasites reduce cabbage worm infestations,
including ground beetles, paper wasps, spiders, and parasitic wasps.
Biodesign Farm believes that its system of living mulches, reduced tillage,
and habitat management may be managing cabbage worm without Bt or
insecticides. After using living mulch for 12 years and minimum tillage for
11, the farm stopped treating for cabbage worms in 2000 and has seen no
economic injury for five years. This grant will assess whether cabbage worm
can be managed without pesticides by fostering predator and parasite
habitat. It will also try to determine what predators and parasites are most
effective and seasonal changes in their complexes.

Zephyros Farm and Garden
Daphne Yannakakis and Don Lareau
11466 3725 Rd.
Paonia, Co. 81428
970-527-3636
www.zephyrosfarmandgarden.com
dlareau AT tds.net



-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mike Rock
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:33 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [Market-farming] Missoula, Montana garden farming

Hi all,
Does anyone know what the prospects of market farming/gardening are in
the Missoula, MT, area? Hoophouses look like a must have, there is
water available on the benches above the river. The air photos show
good green along the river area, but that depends on the time the photos
were taken.

Thanks for any advice.

Most respectfully,
Mike Rock
Currently in southern Wisconsin

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