Ask a Farmer - Gardening Q & A: Recent Episodes
Stephanie Beneng
Stephanie Beneng of the Olean Public Library interviews Mark Printz, manager of Canticle Farm, as they answer gardening questions from the Olean community.
Stephanie and Mark discuss the unpredictable spring weather, how to extend your growing season in the home garden, and thinning the apple crop for more regular production each season.
Mark and Stephanie discuss timing of seedling growth, compost for beginners, and keeping deer away.
In this episode, Stephanie and Mark discuss caging tomatoes, trellising cucumbers, and easy methods for starting gardens and increasing community food security.
Stephanie Beneng, library assistant at the Olean Public Library, also works for Canticle Farm, a vegetable farm that sells directly to consumers via CSA shares and farmers' markets. In this episode Stephanie interviews Mark Printz, the farm manager at Canticle, about what is happening on the farm this week and what seeds are being planted. Then they answer gardening questions from their audience.