Andrew Johnson will discuss strategies for the New Hampshire garden. This is a great program for those planning to g arden for the first time or folks who need encouragment to keep their gard ens going this year.
\nHe will give tips for those new to gardening
and talk about his no-till method and other adaptations he has learned whi
le farming in New England.
Andrew works the land at The Good Farm\,
located in Ashby\, MA. CSA info here:
https://thegoodfood.farm/.
About Andr ew Johnson: Farm manager\, Andrew Johnson\, grew up in southern M innesota. Though surrounded by industrial agriculture\, he never imagined farming as a career path for himself. While getting a degree in industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California\, he wro te a paper about Los Angeles' food system. This paper\, and the research w hich supported it\, planted a seed of interest and got him asking how he m ight be a part of improving the food system. Upon graduation\, Andrew took his "dream" job as an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Think ing he'd be there for 3-5 years so he could save up and buy a farm\, it wa sn't but eight months into his engineering job when the pandemic hit. Andr ew quit his job\, left Los Angeles\, and decided to dive into farming full -time. Before arriving in Massachusetts\, he worked on and managed a coupl e of organic no-till veggie farms in Michigan and Connecticut. \;
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