Digging For Answers

Hey there, Summer is winding down and the 167'th Harford Fair wrapped up a few weeks ago. Listen as Anson gives us his 4'th year in reporting on the history of county fairs, and I get to interview a few people that attended our building at the fairgrounds. PEOPLE WERE SHY THIS YEAR! Many didn't want to be interviewed.... but I had a couple. And I'll announce our winner for the Amaz...

Blueberry picking season is about over in Susquehanna County PA, and the 44'th Annual Blueberry Festival was held on Friday and Saturday, 2-3 August. This podcast covers our PRE-BBF event held at the Montrose Library Community Room, and two days of interviews at the festival. The weather was the best we have had in many years, and we are waiting for the final fund raising dollar amounts to be...

Hey there, I'm Howard and I'm glad to invite you back to our first episode of 2025. It's been a while since we have released an episode, but we are back for what should be a monthly episode talking about: * What is going on in the Susquehanna Area that may impact your garden, lawn, fruit trees. * Highlighting upcoming events that may interest you. * A discussion on an upcoming article...

Hey there, The Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County just finished up their annual support at the Harford Fair! We hope that if you visited the fair that you stopped in to ask questions, got answers and picked up some free seeds. I was there on Tuesday to record for this podcast and talked to over a dozen individuals/groups about why they come to the fair, and why they stopped in to see us! We wi...

Hey there, The Master Gardeners of Susquehanna just wrapped up their biggest SPRING CLINIC every! It was a sell out event with some GREAT speakers. This episode of the podcast is going out to both " DIGGING FOR ANSWERS ", and the Susquehanna County Library " OFF THE SHELF " podcasts. We have interviews of people that attended the Spring Clinic and a list of upcoming community e...

Welcome back to " DIGGING FOR ANSWERS "! This is our first PSUE Susquehanna County Master Gardener podcast in 2024! This podcast is focused on the recent Susquehanna AG Day. We had a table at the event and interviewed people on why they came to the event and a few other questions. At the end, I left in a short "hot mic" recording from when we were talking to a group of youth, a...

The 165'th Annual Harford Fair is over! I had a wonderful time at the fairground last week, manning a table on Thursday in the Penn State Susquehanna County Master Gardener's building. I was representing both the Master Gardeners and the Susquehanna County Library. I have not heard the final head count yet on how many people visited us, but I'm going to guess it had to be close to 1,00...

It's FAIR WEEK! This special episode is focused on the 2023, 165'th Annual HARFORD FAIR, in Harford PA. Here from Penn State, Susquehanna County Master Gardener Anson on what the Master Gardeners are sharing at the fair this year. The event runs 14-19 August, the booth is open 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. each day of the fair. Come talk to us, bring your questions and get some information that...

I don't know what you were doing on Friday and Saturday, 4-5 August, but myself and over 1,000 others were at the 44'th annual Montrose Blueberry Festival! Listen in to hear about the event and WHY people were attending the event! The Susquehanna Master Gardeners had their Education Garden open and Master Gardeners ready at their information table to answer your questions! Thank you to all...

Welcome to " DIGGING FOR ANSWERS ", a podcast partnership with the Susquehanna County Historical Society and Free Library Association, and the Master Gardeners in Susquehanna County Pennsylvania. Normally we address your garden, fruit tree, or yard questions.  We update you on things like the Spotted Lantern Fly or have topics that are garden related. This 2023 kickoff episode is a littl...

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS .  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,   The Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to shar...

As Christmas Eve approaches, we wish to share this reading of a poem that was written in 1823 by Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas.  It's a short piece, but one of the most well known writings about Saint Nick. Our reader of this wonderful poem is Susquehanna County Commissioner Allen Hall.  Commissioner Hall was kind enough to have recorded this with us in 2019, and we re...

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS .  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,   The Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to shar...

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS .  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,   The Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to shar...

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS .  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,   The Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to shar...

Happy Holidays!  We want to thank you for listening to our podcast series, OFF THE SHELF and DIGGING FOR ANSWERS .  We have a special treat for you as we end 2022.  We have the SECOND return of our five part reading of one of the most famous holiday stories,   The Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens.  The book was first released on 19 December 1843, We are excited to shar...

This is a special BONUS episode that will be posted both on our " OFF THE SHELF " podcast, and the " DIGGING FOR ANSWERS " podcast.  Thanksgiving is in just a few days and there is a lot going on in the Susquehanna County area and audiences of both podcasts would hopefully find some information in the contents of this episode. We ae going to cover three items: * The 2022 Pottery and Art Sale...

A special BONUS episode, containing a locally written Halloween story that has some information that you might find interesting about SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY INVADERS!   Feel free to leave an audio message on the Anchor.fm site for the podcast or stop into the Montrose main Library, you might get some Halloween candy!

Welcome to "DIGGING FOR ANSWERS", a podcast partnership with the Susquehanna County Historical Society and Free Library Association, and the Master Gardeners in Susquehanna County Pennsylvania. Normally we address your garden, fruit tree,  or yard questions.  We update you on things like the Spotted Lantern Fly or have topics that are garden related.  This episode is a little differ...

Spring is running at full steam right now.  Here are a couple of important updates about upcoming events!  Hope you see you at some of them!  Don't forget, plant sale orders are due on 29 April!

Winter is winding down, and the time to get busy in your garden is ramping up!  So... we have a BONUS episode of our podcast out this month.  This special edition includes: * The flower of the month for Feb - The Violet * Another section of Ruth Wilmarth's book, "Tending Your Garden - A collection of Gardening Articles" * A segment about the upcoming Master Gardener Plant Sale!  Wha...

Happy 2022 and our return for our 3'rd season of Digging for Answers ! This is our 7'th full episode of Digging for Answers . This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Library Association. This episode features three segments from three guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County. Our goal each month is to respond...

Hi there, This is our 6'th full episode of Digging for Answers . This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Library Association. This episode features three segments from two guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County. Our goal each month is to respond to common gardening questions using the PSE Master Gardener Ho...

Hi there, This is our 5'th full episode of Digging for Answers . This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Library Association. This episode features three segments from two guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County. Our goal each month is to respond to common gardening questions using the PSE Master Gardener Ho...

Hi there, This is our 4'th full episode of Digging for Answers . This is a podcast from the Susquehanna County Historical Society & Library Association. This episode features three segments from two guest speakers from the Penn State Extension (PSE) Master Gardeners of Susquehanna County. Our goal each month is to respond to common gardening questions using the PSE Master Gardener Ho...