NEW H A M P 



HIRE NEWS 



1994 



New Hampshire Fairs 



JULY 28-31 North Haverhill fair, 

 Fred C. Lee Memorial Field, 

 N. Haverhill; for information: 

 David Keith at 787-6696. 

 JULY 29-31 Stratham fair, 

 Route 101, Stratham; 

 information: David Noyes 

 at 431 -GAME. 



AUGUST 2-7 Cheshire Fair, 

 Route 12, N. Swanzey; lohn 

 Thurber at 357-4740. 

 AUGUST 16-21 Lancaster Fair, 

 Route U.S. 3, Lancaster; Bonnie 

 Knapp at 636-2845. 

 AUGUST 19-21 Cornish Fair, 

 Town Hall Road, Cornish; Bob 

 Bladen at 542-4622. 

 AUGUST 20-21 Belknap County 

 4-H Fair, Mile Hill Road, Bel- 

 mont; Tom Corbin at 524-5125. 

 AUGUST 24-28 Plymouth State 

 Fair (Take Exit 26 off 1-93); 

 Fran Wendelboe at 536-2305. 

 SEPTEMBER 1-5 Hopfcinton 

 State Fair, Contoocook Fair 

 Grounds, Contoocook; Alan 

 Hardy at 746-4191. 

 SEPTEMBER 9-1 1 Hillsboro 

 County Agricultural Fair, Rte 13, 

 New Boston; John Robertson at 

 588-6500 or Marge Rowe at 

 673-2510. 



SEPTEMBER 15-25 Rochester 

 Fair, 72 Lafayette St., Roches- 

 ter; Jeffrey Taylor at 332-6585. 

 SEPTEMBER 29-OCTOBER 2 

 Deerfield Fair, Route 43, 

 Deerfield; Robert Stevens at 

 463-7421. 



OCTOBER 8-10 Sandwich Fair, 

 Center Sandwich; Earle 

 Peaslee at 284-7062. 

 All telephone area codes are 603. 



Welcome, 



New Board Member 



In March, Tammy Hathaway agreed 

 to serve on the NHPGA Board. 

 (We now have a full board.) 

 Tammy's involved in several as- 

 pects of the business — having 

 worked at Michaud's in Exeter for 

 eight years, she is now at Rolling 

 Green in Greenland. She will con- 

 tinue doing there what she has al- 

 ways done — growing, gardening, 

 sales.... 



She and her husband have also 

 begun a cut-your-own flowers busi- 

 ness (with an unusual assortment 

 to pick from) at their own home. 

 After a successful first year, they're 

 expanding — this year, it's a wider 

 assortment, larger bed, and an 8x10 

 shed at the end of the driveway. 

 She's also an enthusiastic member 

 of the Specialty Cut-Flower Asso- 

 ciation and hopes to share with 

 NHPGA members some of the in- 

 formation she receives from them. 



Tammy's at 61 Squamscott Road, 

 Stratham, NH 03885; she can be 

 reached at 603-778-3912. 



New Product 



Back in )uly, 1993, the Rochester, 

 New Hampshire, Organic Waste 

 Composting Facility opened and 

 began accepting leaves, brush, 

 wood chips, and stumps. Sludge 

 and wood ash were accepted be- 

 ginning in the late fall. 



Towns throughout the area bring 

 their organic wastes to the facility; 

 nurserymen, landscapers, and 

 homeowners bring small quantities 

 as well. Each load is weighed and 

 the party bringing it charged $10.00 

 a ton. 



The material is put into one of 

 the 15 bays of the 44,000-square 

 foot facility. For 21 days, it's turned 

 daily and air hot enough to kill 

 weed seeds and pathogens is 

 driven through it. Then it's cured 

 outdoors for a month. 



The product from all this is a 

 compost called AllGro. And inter- 

 national Process Systems, Inc. (a 



Wheelabrator Clean Water Com- 

 pany) began marketing it on April 

 15. A lot of research and testing 

 (some of it ongoing) has gone into 

 the development of this compost; 

 it's seen as an excellent soil condi- 

 tioner and top soil substitute, use- 

 ful in a wide range of applications. 

 Advantages listed in a promotional 

 brochure include increased soil 

 aeration, nutrient and water reten- 

 tion, and cation exchange capacity. 



AllGro is delivered directly in 

 50-to-60-yard truckloads to nurser- 

 ies, garden centers, and landscap- 

 ers (it's not yet available in smaller 

 quantities). There's a two-tier price 

 structure — one for users, a slightly 

 lower one for distributors ("In this 

 way, we protect our distributors," 

 leff LeBlanc, Director of Marketing, 

 says.) Accommodating and aggres- 

 sively searching for new markets, 

 leff is at 1-800-662-2440. 



Allgro is in Rochester at the 

 Waste Management Landfill off 

 Route 125 on Rochester Neck Road. 



NHPGA Scholarships 

 Awarded 



The success of the auction at last 

 year's Summer Meeting allowed the 

 NHPGA to give two $750 scholar- 

 ships this spring. 



As is traditional, one went to a 

 student in the Department of Plant 

 Biology, one to a student in the 

 Thompson School. 



Scott Ridlon, Thompson School 

 student, currently owns a small 

 lawn care business in Milton Mills, 

 New Hampshire. He's married, with 

 two young sons, and owns his own 

 home. He went back to school be- 

 cause he felt "an education in the 

 horticultural technology field would 

 help me and my business become 

 more marketable." After graduation, 

 plans include "starting a small 

 greenhouse for plant production, 

 helping to reclaim an old farm and 

 making it profitable and productive 

 again, and making my own busi- 

 ness financially stable and large 

 enough to hire employees." 



Tracy Weber, student in the 



The Plantsman 



