Our June 20, 2016 program featured Becky Griffin’s presentation of Pollinator Possibilities – the Wonder of Pollinator Gardens. As UGA Extension’s Community and School Garden Coordinator, Becky is passionate about creating community through gardens. She writes a weekly blog at ugaurbanag.com/gardens with timely tips for community and school gardeners. Becky also organizes school garden teacher training each summer and serves on several committees related to urban agriculture. Her current project is the Pollinator Spaces Project ugaurbanag.com/gardens/pollinators where she encourages gardeners to create pollinator habitat. Her topic was timely and extremely interesting to our members. Becky graciously answered many questions and offered ideas for our garden to encourage the many Georgia pollinators to visit our gardens. Related Images:
Category: Meetings
May 2016 Meeting
Gwinnett County Master Gardener’s May 16, 2016 program featured our own member, Susan M. Varlamoff who has authored ‘Sustainable Gardening for the Southeast‘. In this informative presentation, she talked about her book which provides gardeners with simple strategies to cultivate their home landscapes with respect for natures cycles. By using sustainable gardening practices, gardeners will help create ecosystems that support a diversity of life necessary to maintain the earth’s equilibrium. Photos from our meeting Related Images:
April 2016 Monthly Meeting
Sheri Dorn, an Extension Horticulturist and State Master Gardener Coordinator at the University of GA in Griffin, was Gwinnett County Master Gardeners Association’s guest speaker on April 18, 2016. Her topic was “Sprouts” and Youth, School Learning for Children”, and we heard a thorough update on the MGSprout program in Georgia. A lot of work has gone into this new initiative for six to eight-year-olds to get them interested in gardening and it was a very informative program. Related Images: