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The
Shepherds Center,
an interfaith volunteer non-profit group, held a session on at the
Bay View Home at 4380 North Main Street, on organic gardening with
Mary Merhi of Quansett Gardens in Dartmouth. Ms. Mehri farms and keeps
300 laying hens at
Quansett Gardens sells her vegetables, fruit, eggs and baked goods
at local farmers' markets. She also contribute to the brown bag and
other food distribution programs. She grow most of her food without
pesticides or commercial fertilizers and labels most of what she sells
as organic, including a variety of fruits grown in her orchard. The
presentation was designed to introduce participants in the Lifetime
Learning program to local farmers. Click
here,
here,
here
and
here to see some of the other Shepherd Center activities. For more information about the group, e-mail
Kathy Brennan or call the
Shepherd's Center office at 508-678-7575.
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