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Evergreen Elm's 1995 Blue Ribbon Vegetables from "A Tale of Two Tomatoes."

Chart of Evergreen Elm's Biodynamic Garden vs Traditional Agricultural Growing Methods in open competition at the McKean County Fair:* **

YEAR	ENTRIES	RIBBONS	BLUE (First Class Money)
1991	14	11	8
1992	21	18	11

In 1993 Evergreen Elm's Master Gardener L.A. Rotheraine began experimenting with unorthodox combinations of the biodynamic preparations at the suggestion of Hugh Courtney* ** of the Josephine Porter Institute of Applied Biodynamics:

1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008	27 33 34   30* 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 29 29	25 31 34 30 28 29 30 29 30 29 30 28 29 27 28	17 17 27 21 26 20 22 24 23 14 22 18 23 24 20

* In 1996 Evergreen Elm decided to limit its number of entries to 30 when they realized that agri-growers using traditional late 20th century systems of growing fruits and vegetables could not compete against them when they used unorthodox combinations of biodynamic preparations.

Copyright © 2004 L.A. Rotheraine