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Organic gardening
Perhaps the healthiest plan is to dust off the hoe and pitchfork and grow organic foods. Most people will eat more of a healthful vegetable or fruit that they have grown themselves, but the benefits go far beyond just the actual foods.
Organic gardeners do their part to save the environment through recycling and composting, and by refraining from chemical insecticides and fertilizers, they are helping to protect local streams and rivers.
Kaye Cooper, Fauquier County Extension Resource Management Coordinator, has had an organic garden at her homq^ on Leeds Manor Road since moving here in 1988.
She and her husband, Carlton, have planted up to four plots in their garden, which yields a variety of vegetables, plus organic raspberries, strawberries and blueberries.
“We put up a great deal of what we grow each year,” commented Cooper. “But this year, we had no com because of the drought.”
A Fauquier Master Gardener, Cooper assists Fauquier County Horticultural Extension Agent Chuck Hoysa with new classes of master gardeners, specializing in
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