Roxborough High School gets a freshly painted gym and refurbished garden

22.05.12

Scarcely 100 students and volunteers from all around Philadelphia came to Roxborough High School on Saturday morning to draw weeds and plant fruit trees and berry bushes on Philly Orchard Day. 

While equivalent projects were happening all over the city, volunteers in Roxborough painted and gardened both outside and inside the teaching.

Eileen DiFranco, the school nurse, heads the School Beautification Club, and for the second year in a row, has enlisted the purloin of the Philadelphia Orchard Project. 

"We couldn't have done it without the Philadelphia Orchard Project," she says during her lunch depart from b renounce in the cafeteria. "I just said I wanted to do it but they're the ones that actually hopped to it."

The volunteers' lunches were donated by Roma Pizza, Kaplan Bagels, Shoprite, and Flavoursome Twisters.

Along the driveways outside of the school, volunteers hacked at weeds, raked dead leaves, and planted tinge trees, which aim to prevent weeds from growing back. 

Source: Newsworks.org

how can i find a diagram for a blueberry rake ?

Aug 30, 2006 by patr_gil | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)


This ikon gives dimensions and a pretty good view of construction:
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wallysierk | Aug 30, 2006

This figure gives dimensions and a pretty good view of construction:
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wallysierk | Aug 30, 2006

Longing these help.....


http://www.blueberrystore.com/Images/Car t_Images/Unique/Rake.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/1045 /rake1.jpg

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll ?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2
jeff the drunk | Aug 30, 2006

i dont have a diagram but i can touch on you it looks like a kitchen dust pan only deeper and the outside edge has "teeth" like a comb only about 1" but for
Leslie T | Aug 31, 2006

Have you ever done migrant work?

Dec 22, 2006 by blank | Posted in Immigration

A few years ago I raked blueberries up in Maine. It was the hardest affair I have ever done in my life, and I got paid almost nothing. One thing that i got out of it was a better acceptance of immigrants in our nation, especially hispanic ones.

I as a matter of fact worked on a harvest crew in my younger days, and it is back breaking work...I think it would be good encounter for a lot of kids...pay sucks; work is hard and long; and there is little to no appreciation for your strife...

Ri | Dec 22, 2006

where can I buy a blue berry picker?

Jul 30, 2006 by Lizmar | Posted in Yahoo! Shopping

this cat's-paw resembles a box with a handle on the outside and a rake like bunch of tongs which you run up the blueberry bushes. The blueberries are captured in the box.

Pickers online:

http://www.oddensnorskhusflid.com/Bluebe rryPicker.htm

http://www.saunastop.com/catalog/measure.p hp?catid=48
Out of stock but check back

from eBay:

http://search.ebay.com/blueberry-rake_W0

| Jul 31, 2006

Blueberry Rakes - Bookshelf


Proceedings of the Ninth North American Blueberry Research and Extension Workers Conference
452 pages 		Proceedings of the Ninth North American Blueberry Research and Extension Workers Conference

Creator: Charles F. Forney, Leonard J. Eaton | Cooking - 2004-10-13
A hand-held blueberry rake was used to harvest the later berries and they were passed through a winnowing machine, which removed leaves and other trash ...
Publisher: CRC
About this book
Improve yield and quality to give consumers the best blueberries on the market! Proceedings of the 9th North American Blueberry Research and Extension Workers Conference presents the current status of the blueberry industry and recent developments in the biology, breeding, and production of blueberries throughout all of North America. In this extensive transcript of the convention--which occurred in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the summer of 2002--experts have contributed the most cutting-edge research on the commercial production of the blueberry, specifically focusing on increasing crop yield and fruit quality through various techniques and strategies. With original studies and experimental trials in such important issues as soil amendment, fertilizer, and weed control, this book is a valuable resource for anyone involved in the industry. With this book, you'll learn a variety of ways to influence: the mineral nutrition of blueberries blueberry diseases and pathology insect control...
Michigan out-of-doors Michigan out-of-doors

Creator: Michigan United Conservation Clubs, Michigan Wildlife Federation | Conservation of natural resources - 1995
The executive director was incredulous that I didn't know: blueberry rakes, he said. What he described seemed similar to what I had seen at the museum, ...
Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States, Health, Safety and Justice
240 pages 		Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States, Health, Safety and Justice

Creator: Thomas A. Arcury, Sara A. Quandt | Business & Economics - 2009-03-13
4.4 The traditional center-handled rake used in harvesting of wild blueberries rakes come in varying widths, and usually weigh 3.5–10 lb. ...
Publisher: Springer Verlag
About this book
They work at some of America's most hazardous jobs, have few protections, and receive some of the lowest wages. Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States describes this understudied and underserved population. Taking a social justice stance, this volume examines the health and living conditions of workers in agriculture, while advocating for equality. Contributors cover all major areas of illness and injury (including occupational, environmental, infections, and pesticides), while also focusing on systemic social conditions, from lax industry regulations to lack of basic services'problems that are exacerbated by workers' status as recent immigrants. Mental health burdens from the effects of discrimination to substance use, as well as the cumulative impact of workers' separation from families are discussed for a comprehensive, meticulously documented resource.Keeping its findings grounded in agricultural, farm-labor, cultural, and geographic contexts, the book:Highlights the unique...

Blueberry Rakes - News


Ephraim column: Ephraim Moravian Church needs workers
Green Bay Press Gazette - May 22, 2012
He creates everything from a foie gras pate with blueberry bourbon honey to Asian-influenced cuisine to fried chicken. Next leisure you go to Milwaukee, stop in for a meal! Mother gorilla Kokamo gave birth to a male gorilla at the San Diego Zoo on June 17

Hammonton residents are nervous, uneasy following mother-son slayings
Press of Atlantic City - May 22, 2012
And without a answering to these sudden, grisly deaths, residents in this close-knit 14791-person farming community, known as the self-proclaimed “Blueberry Foremost of the World,” are locking their doors, losing sleep and watching for strange cars on

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Hubbard Rakes - Home of the aluminum rake.
The Hubbard Rake Society. Harold L. Hubbard, "Ike", was born in Jonesport in 1942. ... the local growers to devise a blueberry rake, "that would not pause" ...