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Come be a Farmer for a Day at Dragonfly Farm in Nicholson, Georgia on Saturday, June 22. This is the fourth FREE event in the Farmer for a Day Tour Series of 2012. Our remaining tour will September 15 at Full Moon Farm in Winterville. We'll wrap the year up with a Hunter's Moon Potluck feast at Boann's Banks in Royston sometime in October. David Hoescht is the farmer at Dragonfly. He performs miracles- transforming areas of his property into fertile landscapes of flowers, fruits, and vegetables. These are all fed with his own home made compost and vermicompost. Come see how he does it, and help harvest berries and vegetables. Hands-on composting demonstrations! Meet new people, and purchase flowers and other farm products. A Local lunch will include products from Dragonfly Farm such as greens, field peas, and fruit cobbler. To sweeten the pot, thousands of day lilies of wide variety will be in full bloom that weekend! Bring a fishing pole if you'd like to stay a while after we work. Each "Farmer for a Day" event will offer you a chance to experience real work on the farm, so come prepared to work! The work session will last for two hours. You may want to bring your own work gloves, weeding or digging tools, etc. if you have them. Be sure to prepare for the weather appropriately and dress for getting dirty or muddy. You will be in an agricultural setting and can expect sun, rain, bugs, wildlife, dogs, electric fences, pets, and farm animals to be part of the experience. Do not bring your dog with you for a day in the country. Please plan to closely supervise your children during all activities. Water will be provided during the work session and lunch is provided by Athens Locally Grown and the hosting farmers. David will have products available for purchase at the event, so you may want to bring cash/checks and a cooler with you. If you have special dietary needs, plan accordingly to bring those with you. The schedule will approximate this: 9:50-10:00 gather, meet and greet 10:00-12:00 Do farm chores 12:00- 1:00 Share a meal and hear David's story 1:00-2:00 Tour David's farm, enjoy the beauty of the day lilies, see a compost demonstration, and shop for product. We are reserving 20 spots for the event. Don't be left out! Everyone who signs up will be asked to provide contact information in the event of inclement weather or an emergency cancellation. Address any questions to organizer Cathy Payne at 706-416-6611 or email broadriverpastures@gmail.com. Find out more and share photos and comments at http://tinyurl.com/6vtu6n9.
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Come be a Farmer for a Day at Dragonfly Farm in Nicholson, Georgia on Saturday, June 22. This is the ... more

Buy produce for someone else! Sold in increments of one dollar -- place a number equal to the dollar amount you wish to buy in your shopping cart. If you wish to purchase more than one gift certificate, leave a note with your order (during the checkout process) explaining how you want your amount divided. Also, leave a comment stating how you want the "To:" and "From:" filled out. Otherwise, I'll leave the "To:" blank and set the "From:" to your name.
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This variety has beautiful, golden grass like foliage. Use around water features for a bright accent or use in planters for evergreen foliage color.Grows 10 to 12" tall. Zone 7-9
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This variety has beautiful, golden grass like foliage. Use around water features for a bright accent or use in planters ... more

Also called Anise-Hyssop. This variety grows 1-2 ft,likes full sun and has long lasting pink flowers. Fragrant foliage and the flowers attract butterflies.
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Also called Anise-Hyssop. This variety grows 1-2 ft,likes full sun and has long lasting pink flowers. Fragrant foliage and the ... more

This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural grapefruit scent to your home and fight against germs. Nothing could be easier than spritzing a few drops of this antibacterial spray on doorknobs, bathroom surfaces, telephones–anything you touch–to keep your home smelling great. Because essential oils are antibacterial, they help kill germs. The formulas keep indefinitely and make a great gift. So get rid of that toxic commercial air freshener and replace with one made at Blackbriar Farms. Use liberally on non-staining surfaces or simply spray upward in the center of the room, being sure to avoid contact with eyes. Contains distilled water, alcohol, baking soda, organic essential grapefruit oil.
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This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural grapefruit scent to your home and fight against ... more

This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural sweet orange, lavender & eucalyptus scent to your home and fight against germs. Nothing could be easier than spritzing a few drops of this antibacterial spray on doorknobs, bathroom surfaces, telephones–anything you touch–to keep your home smelling great. Because essential oils are antibacterial, they help kill germs. The formulas keep indefinitely and make a great gift. So get rid of that toxic commercial air freshener and replace with one made at Blackbriar Farms. Use liberally on non-staining surfaces or simply spray upward in the center of the room, being sure to avoid contact with eyes. Contains distilled water, alcohol, baking soda, organic essential sweet orange, lavender, eucalyptus oils.
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This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural sweet orange, lavender & eucalyptus scent to your ... more

This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural lavender scent to your home and fight against germs. Nothing could be easier than spritzing a few drops of this antibacterial spray on doorknobs, bathroom surfaces, telephones–anything you touch–to keep your home smelling great. Because essential oils are antibacterial, they help kill germs. The formulas keep indefinitely and make a great gift. So get rid of that toxic commercial air freshener and replace with one made at Blackbriar Farms. Use liberally on non-staining surfaces or simply spray upward in the center of the room, being sure to avoid contact with eyes. Contains distilled water, alcohol, baking soda, organic essential lavender oil.
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This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural lavender scent to your home and fight against ... more

This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural lime scent to your home and fight against germs. Nothing could be easier than spritzing a few drops of this antibacterial spray on doorknobs, bathroom surfaces, telephones–anything you touch–to keep your home smelling great. Because essential oils are antibacterial, they help kill germs. The formulas keep indefinitely and make a great gift. So get rid of that toxic commercial air freshener and replace with one made at Blackbriar Farms. Use liberally on non-staining surfaces or simply spray upward in the center of the room, being sure to avoid contact with eyes. Contains distilled water, alcohol, baking soda, organic essential lime oil.
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This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural lime scent to your home and fight against ... more

This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural peppermint scent to your home and fight against germs. Nothing could be easier than spritzing a few drops of this antibacterial spray on doorknobs, bathroom surfaces, telephones–anything you touch–to keep your home smelling great. Because essential oils are antibacterial, they help kill germs. The formulas keep indefinitely and make a great gift. So get rid of that toxic commercial air freshener and replace with one made at Blackbriar Farms. Use liberally on non-staining surfaces or simply spray upward in the center of the room, being sure to avoid contact with eyes. Contains distilled water, alcohol, baking soda, organic essential peppermint oil.
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This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural peppermint scent to your home and fight against ... more

This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural sweet orange scent to your home and fight against germs. Nothing could be easier than spritzing a few drops of this antibacterial spray on doorknobs, bathroom surfaces, telephones–anything you touch–to keep your home smelling great. Because essential oils are antibacterial, they help kill germs. The formulas keep indefinitely and make a great gift. So get rid of that toxic commercial air freshener and replace with one made at Blackbriar Farms. Use liberally on non-staining surfaces or simply spray upward in the center of the room, being sure to avoid contact with eyes. Contains distilled water, alcohol, baking soda, organic essential sweet orange oil.
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This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural sweet orange scent to your home and fight ... more

This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural vanilla scent to your home and fight against germs. Nothing could be easier than spritzing a few drops of this antibacterial spray on doorknobs, bathroom surfaces, telephones–anything you touch–to keep your home smelling great. Because essential oils are antibacterial, they help kill germs. The formulas keep indefinitely and make a great gift. So get rid of that toxic commercial air freshener and replace with one made at Blackbriar Farms. Use liberally on non-staining surfaces or simply spray upward in the center of the room, being sure to avoid contact with eyes. Contains distilled water, alcohol, baking soda, organic essential vanilla oil.
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This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural vanilla scent to your home and fight against ... more

This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural sweet orange, clove and cinnamon scent to your home and fight against germs. Nothing could be easier than spritzing a few drops of this antibacterial spray on doorknobs, bathroom surfaces, telephones–anything you touch–to keep your home smelling great. Because essential oils are antibacterial, they help kill germs. The formulas keep indefinitely and make a great gift. So get rid of that toxic commercial air freshener and replace with one made at Blackbriar Farms. Use liberally on non-staining surfaces or simply spray upward in the center of the room, being sure to avoid contact with eyes. Contains distilled water, alcohol, baking soda, organic essential sweet orange, clove and cinnamon oils.
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This air fresh mist is an easy way to add wonderful, natural sweet orange, clove and cinnamon scent to your ... more

Red geraniums are one of summer's most beautiful and durable annuals. Just the scent can throw you back to childhood days around your grandmother's portch. They offer abundant blooms from early June through the first frost and can be planted as anchors or borders in a flower garden. Red geraniums typically top out somewhere between 10 and 12 inches and require little maintenance, though they are heavy feeders. Giving or receiving red geraniums could be thought of as a gesture of love or desire.
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Red geraniums are one of summer's most beautiful and durable annuals. Just the scent can throw you back to childhood ... more

These African marigolds (Tagetes erecta) have 3-4 inch, double carnation-shaped blooms which cover sturdy 20 inch tall plants that never need staking. They take the heat. Give them just a bit of water to keep them alive, sit back and watch them in amazement come late summer. The butterflies will dance from one to another and the display will be something you just have to stop and watch.
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These African marigolds (Tagetes erecta) have 3-4 inch, double carnation-shaped blooms which cover sturdy 20 inch tall plants that never ... more

Dianthus barbatus (Sweet William) is an herbaceous biennial, although many nurseries list them as annuals. The flowers are edible with a clove-like taste and supposedly have medicinal properties. It attracts bees & butterflies, too. Plants can grow to a mounded 2ft, but mine are usually a bit smaller in height. Soil should be well drained, it can tolerate drought, it loves sun but tolerates light shade, and deadhead to prolong bloom. If you enjoy the flowers, you can increase your plant population from cuttings or plant divisions.
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Dianthus barbatus (Sweet William) is an herbaceous biennial, although many nurseries list them as annuals. The flowers are edible with ... more

Apple-green foliage will be covered in little yellow daisies through summer. These carefree annuals thrive in full sun and ordinary garden soil. Don't let their current small size fool you. They grow rapidly. The growth habit of individual plants may vary somewhat, but in general each plant will eventually become a flowering mound that can reach 1-2 feet tall and wide. Butter daisies can be planted at any time during the summer. They will need daily watering for the first week after they are planted, but after they get their roots down, they can survive even dry Athens summers with no pampering at all. Butter daisies will reseed themselves. We use them as happy fillers every year in our flower gardens, letting them come up where they may. (They are prolific but not a nuisance, because any strays can easily be pulled up while they are young.)
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Apple-green foliage will be covered in little yellow daisies through summer. These carefree annuals thrive in full sun and ordinary ... more

Sweet shallow-water plant, 12-18 inches tall, with blue-green floating leaves that have a silvery sheen, and yellow, poker-like spring flower heads that stand up above the water. Golden Club is a deciduous perennial that is very "well behaved" and doesn't take over a home pond. It seems able to grow in either sun or shade.
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Sweet shallow-water plant, 12-18 inches tall, with blue-green floating leaves that have a silvery sheen, and yellow, poker-like spring flower ... more

Time to get the pond in gear! This beautiful and carefree native aquatic plant grows 1-4 feet tall, with a spike of pale blue flowers from June to October. Easy to grow in the pond, submersed about 18 inches deep. It will overwinter in the water, and will need to be repotted in heavy soil when it multiplies. Because there are so many options in aquatic plant pots and baskets, we'll leave you to choose what to use. We'll transfer your plant to a plastic bag for transport. Plant in fairly heavy soil with NO perlite (it will float and be almost impossible to remove from the pond water!). If you also have fish in your pond, put rocks over the top of the soil to keep the fish from rooting around in it.
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Time to get the pond in gear! This beautiful and carefree native aquatic plant grows 1-4 feet tall, with a ... more

Well-behaved little cousins to the big cattails that are native to swamps across the U.S. These will happily grow in a pot in just 10-12 inches of water, and send up what our grandkids call "corn dogs" -- a smaller version of cattails' signature brown heads.
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Well-behaved little cousins to the big cattails that are native to swamps across the U.S. These will happily grow in ... more

Papyrus is a beautiful plant with a rich history and tradition. It is now a popular landscape plant, gracing fishponds and pools around the world! Papyrus is a big plant and it needs space in order to be appreciated. A single clump can serve as a focal point, or use in pairs to frame a scene. Grow papyrus in containers placed underwater. This keeps it from invading other plants' territories and simplifies maintenance. Papyrus is a tender perennial, but it can be grown in Zone 8. Freezing temperatures will kill the top, but the plant will recover if the roots are mulched or are under water. It will thrive in either full sun or part shade.
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Papyrus is a beautiful plant with a rich history and tradition. It is now a popular landscape plant, gracing fishponds ... more

New fall 2012 crop of baby tender leaves with robust, peppery flavor

New young arugula.
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New young arugula. more

Enjoy the peppery taste of arugula in a flower to spice up your salads.

Delicious young and tender leaves. Great for a cool summer salad.
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Delicious young and tender leaves. Great for a cool summer salad. more

Both leaves and stalks are crisp yet tender with mild, mustardy savory tang. Tasty in soups, stirfried or just steamed.
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Both leaves and stalks are crisp yet tender with mild, mustardy savory tang. Tasty in soups, stirfried or just steamed. more