Composting: Black Gold for Your Garden – FREE Zoom Webinar on November 1 at 6-7:30PM Put some pep into your garden’s step with compost made from your table scraps and outdoor material like leaves and lawn clippings. Compost is organic matter and will build a better-quality soil for your trees, shrubs, plants and vegetables. Led […]
How can you best prepare your yard to support and sustain wildlife over the long winter? Join ALT’s Senior Director of Education and Curriculum, Julie Travaglini, for tips and tricks on creating a winter backyard habitat. FREE
As the seasons change, let's celebrate this year's harvest... mark your calendar and RSVP below: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6-9pm Durham Hill Farm 6409 Durham Road, Pipersville, PA 18947 durhamhillfarm.com Bucks County Foodshed Alliance is hosting Foodshed Farmer Fest to celebrate YOU, the farmers! Bring your family (kids are welcome) for an evening to relax and reflect […]
Join us for Know Your Native: Shrubs for gardeners to learn about eight species of pollinators that will make any garden look great and create an essential pollinator habitat. Native shrubs for pollinators are often overlooked in the planning stages or on recommended plant lists. We will discuss the value and benefits pollinator-friendly gardens have to offer.
Have you ever wanted to learn what it takes to be a beekeeper? Are you curious about bees and what you can do to help them and other pollinators in your yard? Come get a beginner’s view into beekeeping, and a sneak peek into the complicated and amazing lives of the honey bees. Come away […]
Long before pure chemicals were manufactured in labs, members of the Lenape nation used plants for medicine, some of which are still utilized today. Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) and jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) are just a few of these species. This traditional medical knowledge was, and continues to be, passed down through their families. This […]
Autumn is typically when many of us put our gardens to bed by removing leaves and cutting back perennials. Yet, allowing fallen leaves, branches, stems, and seed heads to stay where they are rather than raking, blowing, shredding, or cutting them away will ensure our gardens are places for life to thrive. Anna Fialkoff will […]
Located in the heart of downtown Doylestown, our open-air market features more than 30 rotating vendors local to Bucks County and the surrounding area. Located on South Hamilton Street between West Oakland Avenue and West State Street. The Doylestown Farmers Market takes place every Saturday, April 16 – November 19, 2022, 8 am – 1 […]
Nature itself has a way of sustaining life on Earth. Yet nature’s balance has been disturbed by human endeavors. Our 2022 Fall Conference speakers will share the science of nature and ecological function while offering ways each of us can restore natural processes through selection and use of native plants in our gardens and landscapes. […]
We are a local, producer-only market promoting sustainable farming practices that support healthy soil, produce, pastures, animals, people and local communities.
How do angiosperms reproduce sexually? Former botany and plant physiology college professor Ed Lignowski, Ph.D., will discuss the life cycle of flowering plants, from pollination to fruit and seed dispersal. The general anatomy of flowers will be covered along with specific examples of native plants that illustrate the many interesting differences in floral structure and […]
Doug Tallamy, Professor of Entomology at the University of Delaware; Author, Bringing Nature Home (2007), The Living Landscape (2014), Nature’s Best Hope (2020), and The Nature of Oaks (2021). Recent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check […]
During Know Your Natives: Under-Appreciated Plants, we will discuss options of Pennsylvania native plants to consider adding to your landscape to increase plant biodiversity and maximize wildlife benefit. Native milkweeds have recently dominated the conservation gardening conversation because monarch butterflies depend upon them. However, did you know that Pennsylvania has over 2000 native plants that are […]
Located in the heart of downtown Doylestown, our open-air market features more than 30 rotating vendors local to Bucks County and the surrounding area. Located on South Hamilton Street between West Oakland Avenue and West State Street. The Doylestown Farmers Market takes place every Saturday, April 16 – November 19, 2022, 8 am – 1 […]
We are a local, producer-only market promoting sustainable farming practices that support healthy soil, produce, pastures, animals, people and local communities.
SOIL TESTING CROP PLANNING SEEDLING INFRASTRUCTURE Tuesday November 15th, 2022 6pm – 7:30pm Online via zoom Cost: Sliding Scale – Global Village Member or program graduate $10-55 | Non-member $15-60.
Join us to learn from Amirah Mitchell, a Philadelphia-based farmer and the founder of Sistah Seeds, a small seed-production farm that focuses on seed production of West African, Afro-Caribbean and […]
Join Art Gover of Fruittown Land Stewardship Services and Stephanie Perles of the National Park Service as they discuss a tool used to prioritize areas for invasive plant management with the goal of protecting native species and important habitats. Managing invasive plant species can seem like an endless, insurmountable drain on park staff time and […]
A sales channel is the way in which a food operation goes to market, either through direct or indirect routes, to sell its product. Food operations often choose more than […]
November 18, 2022 at 7:00 Yardley Friends Meeting 65 N. Main St. Yardley, Pa. 18977 Join us and director Al Johnson www.yardleyfriendsmeeting.org For information or reservations email Linda6stn@gmail.com
Located in the heart of downtown Doylestown, our open-air market features more than 30 rotating vendors local to Bucks County and the surrounding area. Located on South Hamilton Street between […]
We are a local, producer-only market promoting sustainable farming practices that support healthy soil, produce, pastures, animals, people and local communities.
Join Hannah Lewis and Maya Dutta in a discussion of Lewis' new book, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World (Chelsea Green, 2022). The Miyawaki Method is a […]
You're Invited! Join Rolling Harvest Food Rescue for our final harvest of the 2022 season at Gravity Hill Farm. Of course there will be delicious food and warm drinks for […]
Our market has moved indoors for the winter. Find us at the Mercentile Visit the Doylestown Farmers Market website. Â
We are a local, producer-only market promoting sustainable farming practices that support healthy soil, produce, pastures, animals, people and local communities. Our market has moved indoors for the winter. Find […]
