Laughing Duck Gardens & Apiaries

SATURDAY ONLY

DUE TO OUR SMALL SIZE, WE ARE OPEN VIA REGISTRATION ONLY

Laughing Duck Gardens & Apiaries function as a micro-farm and a homestead.

Sylvie Rowand manages the gardens that provide a wide variety of crops for fresh eating, preserving, and for sale to local restaurants; local subscribers; and to Sylvie’s personal chef & catering business. Crops include berries, greens, medicinal & culinary herbs, edible flowers, unique winter salad blends, sweet potatoes, etc. Annual crops are started from seeds in the greenhouse or direct seeded. No synthetic inputs are used; the gardens are no-till with heavy use of compost and some cover crops, as well as insectary plantings. Winter growing is possible thanks to cold frames and 2 small home-built unheated growing tunnels.

The apiary operation is now a collaboration between Sylvie and Griffin Gough of Back Road Bee (backroadbee.com). Griffin has been keeping bees since he was 10 and is an enthusiastic teacher. He is a contract beekeeper for over 200 hives located on 26 farms & gardens, mostly in Fauquier. Come learn how he manages the apiaries (home apiary & satellite apiaries) originally set up by Keith Rowand, and the techniques he uses to promote the health and wellbeing of the colonies without persistent chemicals or antibiotics.

Find more information at www.LaughingDuckGardens.com

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Weekend Schedule:

Guided tour of the gardens & review of apiary operations will be provided at set times. There will be plenty of opportunities for Q&A.

Registration will be required AHEAD of time, due to limited on-site parking.

PLEASE NOTE: refrain from wearing perfume and perfumed lotions as their scent can be very attractive to honeybees. Do not come if you are allergic to bee stings.

Directions:

We are located just outside of Washington, VA. Driving directions will be provided upon registration.

Products for sale:

Raw honey

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