Laughing Crow Farm

6 days to Garden Walk Buffalo! Which gardens to explore? @followers Strategy 1, visit garden clusters Strategy 2, explore outlying areas(hidden gems!) Strategy 3, get updates on Garden Walk Buffalo page Strategy 4, read Buffalo-style Gardens book Strategy 5, search articles on ArtofGardening.org Strategy 6, watch Garden Walk Buffalo playlist on YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@WhispersInTheGarden Based on article by Jim Charlier; Video by Jay Jinge Hu #GardenWalkBuffalo

We are at Pride in the Valley downtown Warren today! Come get a Thai massage with Thai Massage Brookfield and Brookfield Massage Therapy!

Mother’s Day is only two weeks away! Are you still looking for a great gift to let that special person in your life know how much you appreciate them? Flower Subscriptions are here to help you solve that problem! How does a subscription work? When you purchase a subscription, your recipient will receive a gift certificate that allows them to pick up a fresh bouquet of flowers every week for 6 weeks during our growing season. Our flowers are locally, sustainably and organically grown on our farm. We work in harmony with mother nature and expect our flower harvests to begin in mid June this year. Interested? Message me for more information, on facebook: Kimberly Bequeath Lowery or Laughing Crow Farm or by text 330-550-6369.

Posting this information here for any other specialty cut flower growers in the area who may not have seen this (and also so I can find it again later 🙃)
Cut flowers are a very important component of the U.S. floriculture industry, surpassing $382 million in annual national sales with Ohio alone accounting for over $2 million (NASS, 2020). These data do not include the contributions of small-scale growers with sales less than $10,000, which represent many cut flower growers in North America, including Ohio. Although flower crops imported from offshore account for the majority of purchases, the industry is facing an increase in popularity and consumption of locally grown “specialty cut flowers”, which include crops that cannot ship well or have a short postharvest life. This market boost parallels the growth experienced by the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers (ASCFG) as its membership increased more than 100% in the last five years.

The Ornamental Crops Pathology Laboratory at The Ohio State University (u.osu.edu/handlab) has received a grant from the Ohio Department of Agriculture to support Ohio’s specialty cut flower industry. The goals of this project are to assess what plant diseases are most frequently impacting profitability in Ohio’s specialty cut flower farms and to develop research and outreach resources for disease identification and management. As part of this grant, Dr. Francesca Hand’s laboratory in Columbus, OH is offering free disease diagnostic services to specialty cut flower growers in the state through August 2024. If you are a specialty cut flower grower and are interested in taking advantage of this service, please contact Dr. Francesca Hand (email: [email protected]| phone: 614-292-1293) for instructions on how to submit a sample. Data collected through this project will be used to develop a disease diagnostic guide that will be freely available to growers for download.

More Information
http://u.osu.edu/handlab

Hand Lab – Ornamental Pathology | where diseases of pretty plants happen Congratulations to Coralie and Patrick April 14, 2020 | Francesca Hand Congratulations to Coralie Farinas (PhD) and Patrick Hoehn (MPHM) for passing their exit examinations last week. We have mastered this Zoom thing!

Our hostas will be ready soon!

How to Cook Hostas You don't often think of grandma's hosta patch as the best place to harvest lunch, but hostas are edible (and delicious).  Perhaps it's time to open your eyes to all the wonderful edibles lurking in