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Pest Management in the Organic Vegetable Garden
with Will Jaquinde [email protected] March 10, 20214 Will Jaquinde discusses techniques for pest management in the organic vegetable garden. .PDF Flyer for notes / presentation. The presentation was 1.25 hours under the VMS Category Food: General Gardens
Aquaponics
with Noah Goldstein Noah Goldstein from Michigan Aquaponics will discuss sustainable food systems related to aquaponics and how to implement a functional aquaponics system. The field of aquaponics was created through the combination of aquaculture and hydroponics, in which animals and plants live skymiotically in a recirculating system wher water flows in a closed-loop. This
Landscaping with Native Plants to Support Nature
with Drew Lathin Landscaping with native plants is critical to build habitat, reduce resource inputs, and build healthy outdoor living areas. Learn why only native plants can do this and some design tips to make your native landscape beautiful as well. Drew Lathin has been playing around with native plants in built landscapes for nearly
Oudolf Garden Detroit on Belle Isle
From the virtual General Meeting on November 10, 2020 One hour of education credit under Community: Beautification: Public Areas
Sustainable Landscaping
with Holly Kaiser October 13, 2020 Holly Kaiser will discuss sustainable practices that can be used in landscape design. VMS category is Community: Beautification: Public Areas
Butterflies in your backyard
with Mary Ellen VanSlembrouck September 8, 2020 Mary Ellen is an Advanced Master Gardener and Smart Gardener with Macomb County. Her yard is certified as a Monarch Waystation through Monarch Watch, a Butterfly Garden through the North American Butterfly Association and a Pollinator Habitat with the Xerces Society. She is also a volunteer at the
Designing your garden
With Jan Bills Jan Bills is the author of Late Bloomer, a certified landscape designer, advanced master gardener, entrepreneur, and contributing writer for State-by-State Gardening magazine. After a successful career in the corporate world, she made a major life reassessment and followed her heart: She traded in her heels for Wellies and started the Detroit-area
“Heirloom Vegetables” – Mary Gerstenberger
The VMS Category for presentation is: Food – General Gardens. Mary Gerstenberger is the retired Consumer Horticulture Coordinator for MSU Extension in Macomb County. She writes the “Vegetable Patch” section for the Michigan Gardener Magazine. Her degree from Wayne State University is in Biology with her core studies in Botany. Her experience in gardening began with helping her grandfather
Smart Gardening from a Commercial Greenhouse Point of View
Presented by Greg Michalak The June meeting was recorded – you may watch it on YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDxV6h4Mt4U There was no handout for this meeting but here is the link referenced.http://trialgardens.raker.com/
New Annuals and Perennials for 2020
Presented by George Papadelis3301 John RTroy, MI 48083(248) 689-8735 tellys.com The May Meeting was recorded and we have a handout for you to use so you don’t have to take notes. HANDOUT Winners from 2019: Alstroemeria MulanThese spectacular plants were bred for pot culture but make outstanding bedding plants and cut flowers…sometimes perennial. Full Sun
WEARISOME WEEDS
By Jean Gramlich | March 17, 2020 Dr. Erin Hill, Weed Science Diagnostician for MSU Plant and Pest Diagnostics was our speaker for March. She specializes in weed identification and control, as well as herbicide injury and resistance in a wide variety of Michigan environments. She says that winning the war against weeds requires a
WOODLAND TREASURES FOR SHADY GARDENS
by Tony Reznicek For those of you who missed Dr. Tony Reznicek at October’s General meeting, attached is his handout. Also below is a link to his website as Curator and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Herbarium. It was an excellent presentation. Some additional notes and information: A few plants to avoid accepting
USING NATIVES IN LANDSCAPING
by Jean Gramlich Vern Stephens, co-founder of Designs By Nature LLC in Laingsburg, a nursery and landscaping company, spoke on using natives in landscaping at our July meeting. Before starting the business he was a grassland and invasive species specialist for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. He runs a 40 acre farm with no
SWEET AND SAVORY SPICES
Stu and Michele Eddy, who own James Creek Sutlery, presented a program on spices. They import 100 spices from all over the world, grind them and mix them together in many ways to enhance the flavor of food. The spice regions of the world are tropical and sub-tropical with lots of rainfall and humidity. The
Gardening APPS
Caston Thomas is the owner of InterWorks and co-host of The Internet Advisor Radio show. The title of his talk was “Gardening Apps,” but an alternate title was “Master Gardeners Meet High ‘Yech’ (and It Ain’t Gonna Be Pretty).” He quoted Richard Louv: “Gardening is not leisure time. It’s an essential investment in our health.”
PEONY: THE BEST VARIETIES FOR YOUR GARDEN
David Michener is the Associate Curator of the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. He oversees the world-famous peony garden in Ann Arbor. All the cultivars in the garden are pre-1950, beginning in 1796 from Japan, Korea and China. International review has confirmed the significance of all the cultivars, over half of
Hugelkultur gardening
By Sheri Trout | January 18, 2019 What do you do when you have a small wooded area with lots of fallen branches and dead wood, three horses that poop a lot and a desire for raised garden beds? You build a Hugelkultur garden. Hugelkultur, pronounced Hoo-gul-culture, means hill culture or hill mound. It’s literally
ORCHIDS FOR YOUR HOME
Joe Peterson, who has grown orchids for 30 years, gave our October educational talk. He says they are easy to grow! There are 30,000 species of orchids and 100,000 hybrids, and they grow on every continent except Antarctica in a wide diversity of climates from sea level to 12,000 feet. Hybrids are easier to grow
DAYLILIES
LaVere Webster began his September talk on daylilies with a droll dramatization of God talking to St. Francis in which he satirized the mindset of typical suburbanites with regard to yard care. We raise boring grass instead of wild flowers (“weeds”), we pay to haul away our grass clippings (which could be used as hay)
HOW TO GARDEN WITH COMFORT, EASE & SIMPLICITY
GARDEN WITH COMFORT, EASE AND SIMPLICITY Jan Bills, who runs the landscaping business Two Women and a Hoe, was our August 2018 speaker. She began her talk by saying, “If I woke up in the morning and nothing hurt, I would think I was dead.” She wants us to love our gardens and not just
CLIMATE CHANGE
Richard Pollman, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Detroit/Pontiac, gave us a talk on climate change and gardening. His specialty is providing forecasts and warnings for the protection of life and property. “Weather” is our daily precipitation/sunshine/temperature. Climate is the long-term trends, long-term averages. The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon which makes