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Wallkill Valley Times , Wednesday , October 19 , 2016

PUBLIC AGENDA

WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 19 Shawangunk Zoning Board of Appeals , 7 p . m . Town Hall , 14 Central Ave ., Wallkill

THURSDAY , OCTOBER 20

Shawangunk Town Board , 7 p . m . Town Hall , 14 Central Ave ., Wallkill . Crawford Town Board , 7 p . m . Town Hall , 121 Route 302 , Pine Bush . Wallkill Board of Education . 7 p . m ., Ostrander Elementary School .

MONDAY , OCTOBER 24 Valley Central Board of Education 7:15 p . m . Administration building , 944 Route 17K , Montgomery . Maybrook Village Board , 7 p . m . Village Government Center , 111 Schipps Lane , Maybrook .

TUESDAY , OCTOBER 25

Pine Bush Board of Education . 7 p . m . Circleville Middle School

HOW TO REACH US

OFFICE : 300 Stony Brook Court Newburgh , N . Y . 12550

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high end organic matter helps with drainage . It holds water better , and you don ’ t get pests and diseases .”

Her farm serves the Second Wind Community Supported Agriculture group ( CSA ), which has 60 participants buying shares of her produce . Patrick has been farming since she was 19 . She studied environmental science at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania , with a focus on sustainable agriculture . She was disappointed that her hometown in Pennsylvania became a site for gas drilling , which can contaminate soil .

Johnny King won the prize for growing the smallest pumpkin . Rather than planting the Atlantic Giant seeds he gave out , he used Baby Bear pumpkin seeds . However , in the past he has grown 200 pound pumpkins using the Atlantic Giant seeds .

“ You have to pay attention , making sure each plant has only one pumpkin growing on it ,” he said .

In the past he had a client with an apartment complex who liked to decorate with gargantuan pumpkins , but the market for decorative plants declined around 2008 , King said .

“ People prefer to spend on good food rather than decorations , “ he said .

He does more green house growing these days . His biggest selling crop is beefsteak

Warren Cone , of Pine Bush , has his hand on his pumpkin that won the prize for Most Earnest

tomatoes , and second most popular are his potatoes . A second generation farmer , King majored in plant science at SUNY Cobleskill . This year his farm became “ certified naturally grown ,” he said .

“ It ’ s the same standards as organic ,

but inspection is done by farmers and cooperative extension members rather than the U . S . Department of Agriculture ,” he said .

The prize for most earnest pumpkin went to Warren Cone , of Pine Bush .

“ I never tried growing pumpkins before . I gave them lots of water ,” he said .

Although the October 15 farmers market was the last regular Pine Bush market of the season , there will be another on the Saturday before Thanksgiving , said Pine Bush Farmers Market coordinator and founder Liana Hoodes .

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Lynn Moore , of Matamoras , PA , won the prize for biggest pumpkin .

Johnny King has grown 200-pound pumpkins , but in the Pine Bush Great Pumpkin contest , he won for smallest pumpkin .