THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Tuesday, June 26, 2012— Page 15
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Kerry Sullivan, who calls himself the state’s self-appointed Fig Maestro, has been growing 40 different varieties of figs in pots in his driveway in an attempt to find out which grow best in New Hampshire. (Roger Amsden photo for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Laconia man growing 40 varieties of figs BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — When people think of figs they usually associate them with the Middle East and Mediterranean countries, places with warm and dry climates. About the last place most people would expect to find a fig tree growing would be in New Hampshire, with its long, cold winters and short growing season. But for those who are willing to make the effort, container-grown figs are proving increasingly popular says Kerry Sullivan, the state’s self-appointed Fig Maestro, who is growing some 40 varieties of figs in the driveway of his Gilford Avenue home. ‘’It’s an ongoing experiment’’ says Sullivan, whose entire adult life has been devoted to organic gardening and decided to start growing figs a few years ago after he and his wife, Barbara, moved from Pennsylvania to the Lakes Region to take care of her aging mother. ‘’I like it here. The summers aren’t sweltering hot like they are in the south,’’ says Sullivan, who started his study of organic gardening at the University of South Florida, but didn’t find what he wanted there. After serving an apprenticeship at an organic
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farm in North Carolina, Sullivan moved on to a project in California where he met Barbara. ‘’She was doing the same thing and was interested in organic gardening just like I was. We moved to North Carolina where we worked for four years at a Mother Earth News project, running a building where we gave lessons on intensive gardening,’’ says Sullivan. After four years there it was off to England, for two years of working with people interested in intensive gardening of small spaces which was called biodynamics. Returning to the states and armed with a new knowledge of techniques, Sullivan and his wife opened one of the first Community Supported Agriculture ventures in the country in 1987 in Kimberton, Pennslyvania, not that far away from Philadelphia. ‘’We had 220 families signed up for our organic vegetable production and it was a real blast,’’ says Sullivan, who ran the CSA for 15 years before moving to the Lakes Region in 2002 to help his wife take care of her aging mother. He says that he’s looked for a place with enough see next page
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