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  • From: "Liz Pike" <liz AT laughingbrookfarm.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Fw: [SANET-MG] Small Farm Tour in OK
  • Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:26:22 -0400


Small Farm Tour on Sat., April 24

Farmers and gardeners will learn about the success of a small market farm
near Stillwater during the Oklahoma Farmers’Market spring tour on Saturday,
April 24, beginning at 3:00 p.m.

Rita Veal and Keith Mirkes will welcome visitors to their Putterveal farm,
where they have been growing a large diversity of vegetables, including
twelve different varieties of eggplant, to sell at the Tulsa Cherry Street
Farmer’s Market and the Stillwater Farmers’ Market since 1997.

Rita and Keith have since done well enough at the Stillwater market for
Rita
to quit her other job, become a full-time farmer and hire summer help.

Rita and Keith will show visitors how they collect rainwater for greenhouse
watering, their use of prairie hay for extensive mulching, and their
progress toward completion of a new washing, packing, and produce storage
building. They are not organic growers, but consciously try to minimize
chemical use, utilizing integrated pest management (IPM) techniques. They
will discuss their pest management approach, and how they developed their
farming business.

To get to Putterveal Farm from the junction of Hwy. 51 and Hwy. 177
(Perkins
Rd.), go 4 mi. east on Hwy. 51 to Prairie Rd. Turn south and go 2 ¾ mi. to
end of pavement. Turn west on Sante Fe and go to the end, approx. ¼ mi.
The
tour will be held rain or shine.

A $3 admission fee for adults will help promote farmers’ markets in
Oklahoma. For a complete list of farmers’ markets, visit madeinoklahoma.net
and click on “Oklahoma Grown.” To see results from Oklahoma surveys of
farmers’ market customers and growers, visit kerrcenter.com.

The event is cosponsored by the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture and
the Oklahoma Farmers' Market Alliance.

Maura McDermott
Communications Director
Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
PO Box 588
Poteau, OK 74953
918.647.9123
www.kerrcenter.com

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is
an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo






  • [Market-farming] Fw: [SANET-MG] Small Farm Tour in OK, Liz Pike, 04/18/2004

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