Twenty Years Baking Pies For Farm Show Competitions (Continued from Pao*Bl2) says, turning a pint jar filled with a variety of vegetables. “This is a good way to use up vegetables at the end of the season.” In addition to eating fresh, Vir ginia stores potatoes and onions, cans greenbeans, red beets, freez es lima beans and broccoli, and pickled cucumbers with dill. She grows cabbage, swee com, and to matoes. This year, she’s added "Long Keeper” tomatoes. She also make applesauce and bakes pies from apples grown on the farm. “I should grow garlic. I’ve got ten organic gardening magazines, but don’t always get to read them,” Virginia says, adding that her toother from Florida stops by each summer to help with the po tatoes. “1 always grow more than I need, to give away. The girls come in the summer to help.” Virginia and Nelson’s daughter, Carol Hobbs, lives in Virginia, while daughter Barbara Vogt lives in Alabama. Barbara paints and papers a room for her mother every summer. 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CASEJH Elm-Penryn 4-H Club A monthly meeting of the Elm-Penryn 4-H Community Club is set Monday, Jan. 19 at 6:30 p.m. at Pleasant View Retirement Community, Manheim. Regularly scheduled club meetings will be held at Pleasant View on the third Monday of the month from January through June from 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Items up for discussion will include the State Farm Show, State 4-H Week/service project,* and the County Benefit Auction. The featured speaker for the evening will be Katina Showman, newly appointed county extension agent-4-H Quality Assured Case IH Parts BEST PARTS.... BEST DEAL.... BEST VALUE -g --v. When You Need Parts, Call SALEM For FAST Courteous Service. Express Service To Your Farm.... Please Call Today. fSALEM Sk I If ARM SUPPIY ! Route 22; Salem, NY 1-800-999-FARM (3276) FAX: 518*854-3057 CASE CREDIT CARD • FARM PLAN • VISA - MASTERCARD - DISCOVER Lancaster Farming, Friday, January 9, 1999-815 coordinator. Information regarding the addition of cake decorating classes (scheduled to begin Jan. 22) will be made available to any interested 4- H’er. This meeting is the first of six regularly scheduled monthly meetings included in the atten dance requirements of the Elm- Penryn Community Club. Member/parent participation, as well as project leader involve ment, are expected at these meetings. For more information about the Elm-Penryn 4-H Community Club or to register your children for any of the pro jects offered by the club, contact Cindy Stahl at (717)664-2055.
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