Hello Cousins Gardeners,
More fun programs being offered by our friends at Garden for Life. Hope you can make one of them. There are many tips below, as well. Be sure to scroll down!
Kitty
Backyard Birds and Bees with Tom and Edie Sisson on Th May 10, 7:30 PM at Harvey Wheeler Community Center,
If you have ever thought of raising chickens or keeping bees, then don't miss our May program!
Tom
and Edit Sisson started Thoreau Country Farm as a family project 40
years ago and evolved into a farm business, selling honey and wholesale
eggs or hatching eggs for classroom use. Edie oversees about 100 layers and also teaches at Drumlin Farm. (She brought 'Clucky the Chicken' to meet children at the Getting to Green program in 2011!) They also have a small garden for their own consumption. Tom has kept hives for 70 years, and is acknowledged as the 'bee whisperer' of Concord! He manages about 6 bee hives now. Space is limited: Please RSVP by May 5; a wait list will be started.
Member Tips
Thanks to our members for the following tips. (If you know of an event or workshop of interest, let me know and I will forward to members!)
Lori Pazaris forwarded this notice of a Habitat Gardening
lecture coming up next week on Thursday, 4/26/12, Maynard Public
Library, 77 Nason St, Maynard, MA, 7:00 pm, lecturer: Ellen Walther
Sousa; sponsored by Maynard Community Gardeners; free and open to the
public; light refreshments provided.
Learn
how to landscape your property as a natural “habitat garden,” providing
food, shelter and housing for many birds, pollinators, and other
“friendly” forms of wildlife. Ms. Sousa’s gorgeous slides of real New
England habitat gardens illustrate gardening techniques that promote and
sustain biodiversity, greatly benefiting our surrounding environment.
Ellen
Walther Sousa is a writer, teacher, and garden coach living in
Worcester Hills on a small farm registered with the National Wildlife
Federation as a Certified Wildlife Habitat. She has a certificate in
Native Plant Horticulture & Design from New England Wild Flower
Society, a BA in English from Clark University, and is certified as a
Master Habitat Naturalist from Windstar Wildlife Institute. Her new book
The Green Garden (2011, Bunker Hill Publishing) has received great
reviews so far! She writes and speaks regularly about habitat gardening
in New England.
Mary Lynn Benson forwarded this interesting lecture "How Can we Feed a Growing World and Sustain the Planet" on Tuesday, May 1, at 4:30 p.m., at MIT sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists:
12th Annual Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture:
How Can We Feed A Growing World and Sustain the Planet
When: Tuesday, May 1, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Where: Wong Auditorium, Tang Center-Building E51, Room 115, MIT, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139.
A reception will immediately follow the lecture. Please check the MIT website for event details.
This
year's talk will be given by Professor Jonathan Foley, director of the
Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesota.
Foley will discuss how increasing population and wealth, along with
changing patterns of diet and consumption, are placing unprecedented
demands on the world's agriculture and natural resources. He will
discuss possible solutions that could double the world's food production
while greatly reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.
The
Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Professor
Henry Kendall (1926-1999), who was the J.A. Stratton professor of
physics at MIT. Kendall received the Nobel Prize in 1990 for research
that provided the first experimental evidence for quarks. A founding
member of the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1969, he served as its
chair for 25 years.
