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Comstock, Ferre 200th Anniversary

Sunday, June 5, 2011 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (ET)

Wethersfield, CT

Comstock, Ferre 200th Anniversary

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NonStop Plants: A Garden for 365 Days

Margaret Roach

Margaret Roach


Expressions commonly heard each September like 'the season's almost over" don't sit well with Margaret Roach. She has worked for more than 20 years to make her garden in the Hudson Valley-Berkshires area a visual treat every day of the year. Meet the plants and the philosophy that make it happen, delivered with a dose of "horticultural how-to and woo-woo"

Margaret Roach, after 15 years at Martha Stewart Living and a decade each at Newsday and The New York Times, now writes the nationally acclaimed blog A Way To Garden (dot com) and is the author of the corporate-dropout memoir, "And I Shall Have Some Peace There," about walking away from "success" for a quiter life lived closer to nature.

 

 


 

 

 

 

Visit www.comstockferre.com for more details about our 200th Anniversary Celebration...June 5 from 10am-7pm. 

 

 

 

 

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Comstock, Ferre
263 Main Street
Wethersfield, CT 06109

Sunday, June 5, 2011 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (ET)


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Comstock, Ferre & Co.



Comstock, Ferre has been a fixture of Old Wethersfield, Connecticut since the 1800's. Last year the company was bought by Jerre and Emilee Gettle of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Comstock, Ferre is one of America's oldest running seed companies, and Jerre and Emilee are working to revive it and bring it back to its beginnings as an heirloom seed company. We are committed to bringing the heirloom/organic gardening practices of our past into the present and future.

As a celebration of our 200th Anniversary we are hosting a huge event on June 5, 2011.  This event will showcase the past and future of Comstock, Ferre, and celebrate the culinary and agricultural heritage of New England. We will have local vendors, acclaimed garden speakers, such as Margaret Roach and William Weaver,  and informative workshops/lectures.

At the front of the property, we are going to travel back in time to the 1800's and reenact some of what life was like back then - the clothing, music, food, gardening and general way of life.  As we move through the property, we will travel to the present and the future and showcase today's vibrant agricultural and gardening communities, with a special focus on local farmer's and chefs as well as some community initiatives changing the way urban areas think about vegetable gardening.