Like many things in 2020, our Virtual Fair didn’t quite go as planned…
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Week one of our Virtual Fair has come to an end. This week we featured a general photography contest. Congratulations to our winners!
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Fifty years ago Robert and Corena Barnitz opened a small, roadside produce market. Today, with nearly 25 acres under roof, Bob’s Market is proud to be ranked among the top greenhouses in the U.S. Get ready to celebrate 50 years of flowers, friends, and family with us in 2020.
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This weekend join Bob’s Market online as we head to Columbus, OH for the Cultivate 2017 conference and trade show. Follow along with our own John Morgan as he attends the Urban Agriculture tour on Saturday, visits the Franklin Park Conservatory on Sunday, and the Ohio State University Trial Gardens on Monday. Also, watch our Facebook Page, Instagram, and Snapchat stories for other updates, awesome ideas, and more.
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2016. Where do I begin? … It’s been an … interesting year. On the bright side, here at Bob’s we continued to grow thanks to amazing customers like you! Just this month we broke ground on a totally new facility at our Belpre, OH market. Get ready for some big changes in 2017!
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Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles that seek to simulate natural ecosystems. It has many branches including design, construction, engineering, and, of course, agriculture. The basic philosophy is to work with nature, not against it.
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MASON, W.Va. — The fourth in a series of free gardening and landscaping workshops will be held Monday evening at Bob’s Market and Greenhouses Inc. in Mason.
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Now through July 30, we are proud to announce that Bob's Market in Mason, WV is serving as a drop off location for new school supply donations. These supplies will help the schools damaged by the recent floods.
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On my last day of Cultivate this year I started out the day by going to a session on changes to the Worker Protection Standard (WPS). The WPS is a training program aimed at reducing the risk of pesticide poisoning and injury among agricultural workers and pesticide handlers.
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Today was the first day of the Cultivate trade show, and the morning began bright and early with a great keynote by Jeremy Kingsley. He shared the seven characteristics of successful people. Do you want to be successful?
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This weekend representatives from Bob’s Market will once again be heading to Columbus, OH to the annual Cultivate conference and trade show.
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During my 40 minute drive to Bob’s HQ each morning, I like to listen to podcasts. Among my favorite podcasts is Freakonomics Radio. Last week host Stephen Dubner explored the complexity of making something as simple as a pencil. The episode featured a famous economics essay, “I, Pencil: My Family Tree” by Leonard E. Read. When you visit one of our markets, you are only seeing a small part of a huge supply chain. Let’s take a look at how a plant grown from seed gets to one of our markets. Since spring is just around the corner, let’s take a look at growing pansies.
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