On Saturday, March 6,
Hartwick Colleges Pine Lake
Institute for Environmental
and Sustainability Studies
will host gardener and writer
Fern Bradley, who will give
a talk titled ``Planting: Possibilities
and Perils.’’
The talk, part of the
``Conversations at the Lake’’
series, will be held at 1 p.m.
in the Strawbale House at
Hartwick’s Pine Lake Environmental
Campus.
It is free and open to the
public.
According to Bradley,
``Step one in creating a successful
garden is building
good soil, but it’s step two
_ planting _ that transforms
fertile soil into a gardening
adventure. While the act of
planting a seed is simple,
there are many possibilities
to consider when you’re contemplating
planting an entire
vegetable garden, large or
small.’’
Bradley is the author of
``Rodale’s Vegetable Garden
Problem Solver’’ (2007) and
the co-author of ``Vegetable
Gardening’’ (2006). She also
edits the quarterly newsletter
of the Northeast Organic
Farming Association of New
York.
In addition, while working
at Rodale Garden Books in
Emmaus, Pennsylvania, Bradley
was part of an editorial
team that produced many
classic garden books.
Bradley has degrees in
plant science and horticulture
from Cornell and Rutgers
Universities, and honed
her organic gardening skills
while managing a two-acre
market garden in western
New Jersey. While living in
Emmaus, she transformed a
site former commercial brickyard
site into productive and
beautiful beds of vegetables,
perennials, and herbs.
This event is sponsored by
the Pine Lake Institute for
Environmental and Sustainability
Studies at Hartwick
College. Conversations at
the Lake, begun in 2006, is
a series of informal talks on
subjects relating to sustainability
and the environment.
For more information,
contact Pine Lake Institute
program coordinator Dan
Morse at 607-431-4520 or
morsed@hartwick.edu.
