Women in Food of WNY presents:
Garden Class with Farm Manager, Katie Pfohl
Tending Your Tomatoes
Join me (Missy) along with Alex Levine from Yelp as your hostess and host for this Virtual gathering of the Women in Food of WNY. In this Free Class with Katie Pfohl, Farm Manager at Massachusetts Ave. Project (MAP) in Buffalo, NY, she’ll teach us everything you might need to know about tending the tomatoes in your garden at this point in the season.
Let’s face it, almost everyone loves homegrown tomatoes. And, they can be easy to grow, almost too easy as they quickly turn into a jungle in your garden. Katie will be teaching us about how to care for our tomato plants so they grow healthy and produce lots of gorgeous, delicious fruits.
We’ll talk about types of tomatoes, pruning them, trellising methods and feeding them so that they thrive. If you’d like to be in your own garden while you follow along, that is the perfect way to see first hand what she’s teaching us and put the concepts into practice.
Along the way, I’ll be asking her questions and chatting about her food and farm journey, being a woman farm leader in WNY and whatever spontaneously comes in our shared storytelling. I’ll also share some bits about Crown HIll Farm and my own passion for food and YOU will have a chance to ask questions as you follow along with us!
Whether you are an expert farmer or gardener, a hobbyist or just starting out with your first potted tomato, I’m sure you’ll learn a TON and be jumping out of your seat ready to give your tomatoes some loving! In addition to learning with us during this live, play-along, how-to adventure in the garden with Katie, you will get info to reference time and again.
About Katie Pfohl: After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy at SUNY Fredonia, Katherine (Katie) Pfohl, Farm Manager at Massachusetts Avenue Project, started farming in Zambia where she was a Peace Corps volunteer in an aquaculture program. After that, she studied Permaculture in Oregon and then moved to St. Croix to work on a permaculture farm. With a desire to know how to farm in temperate regions, Katie helped start a CSA in East Aurora for the 2010 growing season. Katie started working at MAP as an AmeriCorps volunteer and now she is happy to be working with MAP as a full-time staff member.
About the Women in Food of WNY series: Being a solo Woman Farmer and Woman Entrepreneur I have always kept my eye out for fellow women in business with whom to connect (and commiserate). As i’ve established myself in the WNY area, I have loved meeting new chefs and farmers alike. However, one thing that I noticed was a serious lack in attention towards women Chefs and Farmers of the region, despite the fact that there are many of us. Here at Crown Hill Farm, we love to host Farm-to-Table dinners featuring local chefs preparing seasonal foods. From there, I saw a vision: A series of dinners highlighting the women chefs of WNY. Now, in 2020 with COVID keeping us all away from social gatherings in person, I had to get creative while hanging on to this vision of featuring women in food in WNY. And so, after many conversations with incredible women, this series was born! This is the first step to what I hope will be a Conference of WNY Women in Food. For now, let’s gather around our respective kitchens to chat, cook and learn together.