GCMG’s September meeting was held Monday, September 19th, at Gwinnett County’s George Pierce Park Senior Activity Center in Suwanee. This month’s program showcased speaker Debbie Cosgrove presenting a program on “A 19th century Physician’s Use of Medicinal Herbs with Emphasis on Native Plants”. Debbie introduced us to Dr. Durham’s use of medicinal plants. Dr. Durham was one of the more renowned physicians of Georgia during the 19th century. Debbie is a graduate of UGA with a BS in Foods and Nutrition and an MS in Horticulture. In 2008 she and Ellen Whitaker co-authored a book containing the 19th century medicinal remedies of Dr. Lindsey Durham who resided near Athens, Ga. Debbie is affiliated with the historical preservation group the Friends of Scull Shoals. She has an interest in native plants and currently volunteers for the Georgia Perimeter College Native Garden in Decatur. She lives in Arnoldsville, Ga. Debbie also had available copies of…
Author: Anne Heath
National Award
Congratulations to Gwinnett Master Gardener Rosalie Tubre, whose Special Ed. Junior Master Gardener project at Peachtree Ridge High School has won the “National Achievement Award” from the National JMG (Jr. Master Gardener) Program. Rosalie and the Peachtree Ridge teacher working with the project will be traveling to Charleston WV to receive the award on October 14th at the International Master Gardener Conference. Rosalie’s GCMC Project with Peachtree Ridge High School Special Ed. students encompassed two school years for the students to complete the 8 chapters in the curriculum where it would normally be achieved in one year by regular students. Rosalie said ” I have been blessed to have had the opportunity to teach these young mentally challenged and/or disabled students. They learned a lot from me, but I too learned a lot from them”. Related Images:
McDaniel Farm Projects Winds Down for the Season
Gwinnett County’s McDaniel Farm Project Master Gardener volunteers will be cleaning up the demonstration garden and harvesting the last of this year’s produce during September. For the 2011 growing season, volunteers have harvested over 600 pounds of produce making this a record setting year for the garden. All harvested produce is donated to help feed the hungry in the area. A new crop this year is sweet potatoes which will be ready to harvest in mid-September. We did a test dig today and found dozens of little potatoes. Okra is another record setting crop with some plants so tall we can’t reach the tops. New plantings of cole crops for fall will be in the raised beds close to the road where the plants can continue to grow while the main garden is plowed and planted in a cover crop for the winter. As the garden winds down, volunteers will be shifting their focus…