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  • From: Louisa Rogoff Thompson <louisathompson@erols.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org, "Darrell E. Frey" <defrey@toolcity.net>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] gardens to visit
  • Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:57:28 -0400

Lee,

Another possibility - this is in NW PA about halfway between Pittsburg and Erie. Darrel and Linda Frey at Three Sisters Farm, located in rural Mercer County, in western Pa, 5 miles north of Sandy Lake. Address is 134 Obitz Road, Sandy Lake, Pa. 16145, phone:724- 376-2797. www.bioshelter.com, e-mail defrey@bioshelter.com or defrey@toolcity.net. <defrey@bioshelter.com> Darrel is not great about answering e-mails (sorry, Darrel), so call if you don't get a reply soon.

Like the Martis they are long-time permaculturists running a CSA and they also sell a gourmet salad mix (full of weeds!) to upscale Pittsburgh restaurants. Linda has a wonderful eye for color and does striking flower beds containing herbs, annual flowers (many edible), strawberries as a ground cover, and maybe a fruit tree in the center.

Another fine edible landscape is at the home of Joe Jenkins, author of Humanure. Nice hedge of blueberries, several cultivars fruiting in sequence. The orchard is laid out with an eye for design, and so is the vegetable garden. Contact PO Box 607, Grove City, PA 16127 USA; phone: 866-641-7141, mail@joseph-jenkins.com.

These two can also direct you to other people they know in the area, many of them affiliated with the Master of Science in Sustainable Systems graduate program at Slippery Rock University, which has its own edible landscape. See http://www.sru.edu/pages/10417.asp and http://www.sru.edu/depts/chhs/pree/ms3/alter.htm

Louisa Thompson








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