Berks Society 1
The Oley Legion Diner, Oley,
served as the meeting place for
Berks County Society of Farm
Women Group 1 for their Febru
ary meeting. The group welcomed
two guests, Marie Kutz and Ar
lene Weiss, to their meeting. The
business meeting, conducted by
President Evelyn Heacock, fol
lowed a luncheon there.
To celebrate Valentine’s Day,
gifts of red were exchanged, and
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member Ruth Walters displayed a
collection of old valendnes.
It was with regret that Group 1
noted the loss of one of their mem
bers. Grace Schaeffer, who recent
ly passed away while on vacation
in Florida.
Catherine Yanos will be hostess
for the March meeting at her
Douglassville home on March 8,
at 7:30 p.m. Bingo games will be
the feature of the evening.
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American herbs and the ancient
lore associated with these herbs
will be the topic of the Winters
Museum herb garden meeting on
Monday, March 6 at 7 p.m. The
program will be held at the Win
ters Heritage House Museum, 43
High ST., Elizabethtown."
Bob and Pam Censier, members
of the Museum’s Indian cultures
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State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
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American Herbs,
Museum Meeting
committee, are the speakers for
the evening. They will discuss Na
tive American herbs and their
uses, which were primarily medi
cinal in nature. Their talk will fo
cus on herbs which grow naturally
in the Lancaster County region.
After the lecture, ample time
will be allotted for questions and
answers. Guests will also be invit
ed to sample Native American fry
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bread and tea.
The Censiers bring with them a
wealth of knowledge about Native
Americans as well as a hands-on
display of Native American arti
facts. Among the items which will
be on exhibit during the evening
include Indian drums and flute,
hides, ander pipe, bead work, and
publications and hand-outs about
current Indian lifestyle and special
events.
rejoin the workforce after disabling injuries,”
said Dr. Connie Baggett, associate professor
of agricultural education at Penn Stale.
The North Central Agribusiness Research
Center will serve people with disabilities in
Clinton, Lycoming, Montour, Northumber
land, Potter, Snyder, Tioga, and Union coun
ties and will be housed in the Agricultural
Administration Building on Penn State’s
University Park Campus.
According to the National Safety Council,
approximately 130,000 people suffer dis
abling injuries on U.S. famis each year, each
costing approximately $27,000 in medical
expenses, lost wages, and other expenses.
Penn State research indicates that each
year approximately 14 percent of the state’s
farm operations experience an injury serious
enough to cause lost work time, and about
two percent of these injuries leave the victim
with a permanent disability.
“The center will evaluate people with dis
abilities who arc interested in agriculture and
recommend ways they can realize their career
goals,” said Baggett, who has worked with
people with special needs since the early
1980 s.
Growers Of Perishables
Urged To Make
'Fresh Connection ’
COLLEGE PARK, Md. Consumption
of .fresh fruits and vegetables is leveling off.
As a result, small-acreage growers —both
organic and nonorgan ic—need to master
some basic techniques for insuring high-qual
ity produce that will continue to attract con
sumers to roadside stands, farmers markets,
and other points of sale.
That’s the word from Dr. Jarvis L. Cain,
fruits and vegetables marketing management
specialist for the Cooperative Extension Ser
vice, University of Maryland at College Park.
Cain also notes (hat a major supermarket
chain in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C..
corridor is expanding its program of buying
fresh fruits and vegetables on a pooled basis
from local growers if it can be assured of con
sistent acceptable quality.
A professor of agricultural and resource
economics, Cain is the coordinator for an
extension service post-harvest and marketing
focus group established a year ago to help
small growers survive at a profitable level.
The focus group is composed of extension
specialists and agents who work in the realm
of commercial horticulture throughout Del
aware, Maryland, and Virginia. It recom
mended a series of three educational sessions
over the next 18 months to help both small
and large growers become more quality-pro
ficient. The sessions will start at a basic level
and become successively more advanced.
The first “Profiting With Perishables”
basic session is scheduled March 14 at the
Greater Waldorf Jaycees Community Center
in Waldorf, Md. (Charles County), from 8:30
a.m.-4 p.m.
Speakers from the University of Delaware,
Virginia Tech, University of Maryland at Col
lege Park, and the U.S. Department of Agricul
ture are on the agenda. They will present com
mon- sense approaches to post-harvest man
agement and temperature- humidity control.
Variety recommendations will be included.
The meeting hall is located along U.S.
Highway 301 at Highway 5 in Waldorf. A
$lO registration fee includes lunch.
For more information, call Pamela B.
King at (301) 753-8195 or Daniel J. Donnel*