Again the year has drawn to a
close and we face a new year with
hope for a happy future. No one
knows what the coming year will
bring but we can always expect
something good to happen, even if
it doesn’t always turn out that way.
This year my husband and I have
both been tied down to the farm.
Our six children are all off on their
own, either studying at colleges or
working and living in homes of
their own. So father milks and
tends livestock and I raise the food
that we eat and keep the house in
order. I’m sure we’d both sooner
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be busy than idle
quite so busy.
One day just before Christmas,
we and our daughter Judy took a
day trip to Pennsbury Manor near
Philadelphia. This is the recon
structed home of William Penn the
founder of Pennsylvania. He chose
the bend in the Delaware River to
build his magnificent Country
Estate in 1683. The plantation has
numerous outer buildings such as a
brew and bake house. I’m sure the
gardens and orchards would have
been'beautiful in the summer or
spring. The house was furnished
with 17th century pieces and the
rooms were enormous. We had a
tour with a group of school children
and they had many questions for
the guide who was dressed as a
servant.
On our way home we stopped at
the town of Lahaska. It is best
known for Peddler’s Village which
contains 42 charming shops and
restaurants. Judy treated us to
maybe not
luncheon before a large, walk-in throughout the room. It was a nice
fireplace with a blazing fire and change from our workday world
antiques artfully displayed here on our dairy farm.
TERRE HILL The Eastern
Lancaster County Adult Farmer
Program will sponsor a meeting on
Growing Vegetable Transplants on
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Union Grove Alternative School.
Tun Hellberg, general manager
of Groff’s Greenhouse Supplies will
discuss soil, containers, fer
tilization, disease control, and
greenhouse management to in
clude ventilation, heating, and
watering. Amos Funk, Millersville
vegetable grower will also share
some of this expertise and discuss
the scheduling of seedings to have
them ready to transplant at the
correct tune.
This meeting should be of m-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 31,1983-815
Vegetable
meeting set
terest to all commercial growers
and anyone who starts transplants.
The meeting is open to the public.
The Union Grove Alternative
School is located on route 625, 2
miles north of Rt. 23. For ad
ditional information, contact Mr.
Robert Anderson at (215) 445-5041.
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