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NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS 



The First In New 

 Hampshire — 

 and Neiw England 



Mike Cherim's The Green Spot has 

 two aspects — one is a small retail 

 greenhouse/nursery specializing in 

 culinary herbs and house plants. 

 The second is a mail order division 

 called "The Department of Bio-In- 

 genuity, " a supplier/distributorship 

 of organic management products — 

 the first in New Hampshire. Bio- 

 Ingenuity offers 'Green IVlethods' ™ 

 for 'Completely Organic Property 

 IVlanagemenf (COPM)™. These 

 include 39 species of beneficial 

 organisms, 59 Green Methods 

 products, and lots of information. 

 (Mike feels that some companies 

 sell organic products and beneficial 

 organisms without giving the infor- 

 mation to go along with it. "The 

 result is disappointment; and this 

 reflects poorly on the whole 

 industry.") 



Offerings include such things as 

 Delphaslus pusillus, a beetle that eats 

 whiteflies, nematodes that infect 

 and kill lapanese beetle larvae, 

 Amblyseius fallicus (a spider mite 

 predator native to New England), 

 and the Mosquito Fish Igambusia 

 affinis), used successfully in other 

 states for mosquito control. 



Mike also offers traps and moni- 

 toring aids, diatomaceous earth, a 

 special seed mix that encourages 

 the proliferation of beneficial or- 

 ganisms, and Snail Barr — copper 

 strips used to repel slugs. 



Bio-Ingenuity is a year-and-a-half 

 old and covers a lot of ground — 

 Mike's both supplier and distribu- 

 tor, selling to retail outlets as well 

 as home-owners and commercial 

 businesses. 



Although chemical control is still 

 the control of choice for most of 

 the state's commercial growers, as 

 regulations become more stringent, 

 it may become worthwhile to look 

 into new methods and find ways to 

 combine these with the old. 



For a free catalog, write The 

 Green Spot, Department of Bio-In- 

 genuity, 93 Priest Road, Barrington, 

 NH 03825. Or call Mike at (603) 

 942-8925 . 



Christmas Tree Pest 

 Management Course 



University of New Hampshire Co- 

 operative Extension has planned 

 an intensive Christmas tree pest 

 management course for January 6 

 and 7, 1994, to be held at Keene 

 State College, Keene, New Hamp- 

 shire. 



The course will be a mixture of 

 lectures and labs covering a wide 

 range of insect, disease, and weed 

 identification and control topics 

 along with pesticide safety issues. 

 Scheduled instructors include: Dr. 

 )ohn Ahrens, Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station; Barbara 

 Burns, Vermont Department of For- 

 ests and Parks; Dr. William Merrill, 

 Penn State University; Dr. Cheryl 

 Smith, UNH Cooperative Extension; 

 Dr. Stan Swier, UNH Cooperative 

 Extension; John Turmell, Vermont 

 Department of Agriculture, and 

 Nancy Wenner, Penn State Univer- 

 sity. 



According to the course orga- 

 nizer, Marshall Patmos, this will be 

 of value to both beginners and ex- 

 perienced growers. 



Pre-registration is required with 

 a full course cost payment of $100. 

 Entry deadline is December 27. 

 For more information, contact Mar- 

 shall Patmos, UNH Cooperative Ex- 

 tension, PO Box 798, Keene, NH 

 03431, at (603) 352-4550. 



1993 SBA Tree Planting 

 Grants 



On October 25, 1993, US Small 

 Business Administration (SBA) Dis- 

 trict Director William K. Phillips an- 

 nounced that a grant totaling 

 $130,088 was awarded by the SBA 

 to the State of New Hampshire un- 

 der the federal government's na- 

 tional tree planting program. The 

 amount of the grant was based 

 upon the state's total population. 



Under the Natural Resources 

 Development Program, an amend- 

 ment to the Small Business Act, 

 federal dollars for tree planting on 

 state or local government land are 

 made available to states which 

 agree to match at least 25% of the 



federal grant. In addition, any 

 state or local government partici- 

 pating must use small businesses 

 as contractors. 



In New Hampshire, more than 30 

 applications were received by the 

 Division of Forests & Lands, which 

 then used an established rating 

 system to evaluate each proposal. 

 The following 21 communities, plus 

 one state educational institution, 

 were selected: Bartlett, Bedford, 

 Beriin, Brookline, Candia, Concord, 

 Dover, Dublin, Dunbarton, Durham, 

 Exeter, Keene, Londonderry, 

 Manchester, Mariborough, Orford, 

 Portsmouth, Raymond, Stratham, 

 Tamworth, Temple, and the New 

 Hampshire Technical Institute in 

 Concord. 



The total dollar amount which 

 will ultimately be awarded to small 

 businesses will be over $337,000. 



Small business contractors inter- 

 ested in bidding on one of the lo- 

 cal tree planting projects (in the 

 spring of 1994) should contact the 

 communities and school listed 

 above. For information on the pro- 

 gram itself, call Mary Reynolds at 

 (603) 271-2214. 



Connecticut Valley 

 Conference 



The Connecticut River loint Com- 

 mission, originally established by 

 the Vermont and New Hampshire 

 legislatures in 1987 and, since 

 1990, a non-profit corporation, con- 

 tinues to pursue its mandate to 

 "protect and preserve the economy 

 and ecology of the Connecticut 

 River Valley." This year it is host- 

 ing a conference aimed at finding 

 new ways to market valley agricul- 

 tural products. 



"The Connecticut River Valley: 

 Opening New Markets for Agricul- 

 ture" will be held on January 22 at 

 the Lake Morey Inn in Fairiee, VT. 

 The main topic will be marketing: 

 "There's a market of potentially 

 several million from Montreal to 

 New York and thesmall grower 

 doesn't know how to get to it." 

 Panels will examine, among other 

 topics, cooperatives, niche market- 

 ing, agri-tourism, and community 



December 1993 / January 1994 



