Master Gardener Meeting Minutes 3/14/2013
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
1601 N. San Francisco
Loni Shapiro –
Volunteering at Hospice
Loni talked about volunteering at the Olivia White
Hospice gardens:
We have already begun planning for our 2013 garden
season. We will start work in the garden sometime in April. Watch our blog
(owhospicegardenvolunteers.blogspot.com) for current information. Orientation
for new seasonal and drop in volunteers will be available twice this season -
April 25 and May 4 at 10am at the garden. It will last about 2 hours and is for
those who want to work in the garden this year, not as a tour. If you want to
help but are unable to attend one of those sessions please contact me by e-mail
or phone (522-8635). Our workdays this season will be Mon. & Thurs. from
8am-12pm and one Saturday a month from 9am-12pm.
We have some new requirements this year due to Medicare regulations.
1. Fill out a 1-page application for Northland Hospice
2. TB clearance which can be done in 1 of 3 ways:
a. TB skin test done by Northland Hospice (contact me for details on how to do this)
b. Recent chest x-ray
c. Letter from Dr. or DO stating you are free of TB symptoms
3. Confidentiality training HIPAA
Written handout, brief lecture, and quiz
4. Optional for those who want to water in the home or work with residents in the garden.
Background check
We have our usual weeding, planting, vegetable gardening, composting, and irrigation work this year, but in addition will be doing 2 new landscaping projects and a couple of pathways.
Last of all, this is my last season at Olivia White (10 years this year), and I am looking for a MG to take over coordination beginning next year. This can be 1 person or it could be a shared responsibility. If you are interested please contact me. Participation this season would be helpful for seeing what is required.
Dorothy Lamm announced two Native Plant/Invasive Weed
Workshops. Susan Holiday and
Hattie Braun will be two of the presenters. The first takes place on Saturday-Monday,
June 8, 9 and 10. The second
workshop is Saturday through Monday, July 27,28, 29. For more information, contact Dorothy Lamm at lammke@MSN.com or
928-779-7296.
Continuing
Education: Connie Cowan, Herbarium Project – Museum of Northern Arizona
Connie Cowan is
re-invigorating the Walter B. McDougall Herbarium at the Museum of
Northern Arizona. An herbarium is a collection of preserved plants that is
stored, catalogued and arranged systematically for the use in research. The McDougall Herbarium contains over
34,000 plant specimens with the
focus on the Colorado Plateau. Master gardeners volunteer at the herbarium
regularly and have mounted over 1,000 specimens. The Museum is a partner in the Plant Atlas of Arizona
Project and Budding Botanists. The
atlas is a project to document Arizona’s plant diversity; the Budding Botanists
are volunteers who learn plant identification, how to collect and document
Arizona plants. For more information, go to http://www.gcvolunteers.org/trainings_botanists.html.
On the third Friday of the month tours are available of the herbarium.
New volunteers at the Museum are welcome. If you are interested, contact Connie
at ccowan@mna.mus.az.us.
Thanks to Charlotte
Dodgson for bringing the refreshments.
Business Meeting –
Debi Stalvey
CMGA logo - Debi shared the choice for the official logo
of the Master Gardener Association.
The logo will be used immediately on letterhead for correspondence but
it will not appear on 2013 membership cards.
Arboretum – The Arboretum will have their annual plant
sale on July 12 for members and Saturday, July 13 for the general public. On the 13th, Master
Gardeners will have a table at the event from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Volunteers will be needed. Debbie James will assist with the
event.
Master Gardener Plant Sale – The Association will have a
plant/used used garden tool/garden-related items sale at the Allstate Office on
Cedar Avenue on Sunday, June 2 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Items for the sale will be
collected starting in May.
Sherline will coordinate volunteers for the sale. Arts and Crafts vendors will be able to
have a table at the sale for $10.
Loni said she would ask someone she knows about sharpening tools. Another member said that she had been
to the Prescott Master Gardener Plant Sale and they had a children’s play area
and recommended we do the same.
MG Approved Projects clarification - Some re-writing of
the master gardener project approval process is needed to clarify some
issues. Approval for projects is
required for projects needing multiple volunteers and ongoing assistance. We need to add information on
approved projects being covered by the University of Arizona liability.
T-shirts, etc. fundraiser – Sherry Markel has created
some embroidered t-shirts and other items and wishes to use them as a
fundraiser for the Association. She brought samples to the Association meeting
and took orders. She will do so at future meetings as well.
Calendar - Bev McAllister and David Brimwall are
interested in working on the calendar committee. Crys is willing to work on the design as a backup. Debi
Stalvey and Charlotte Dodgson will coordinate. The theme for the calendar this
year is Flagstaff Flora and Fauna. Photographs need to be 4x6 inches and
submitted by May 15.
Earth Day – The Association has been asked to provide a
workshop at the Earth Day event at City Hall. Susan Thompson agreed to do a presentation on amending the
soil.
Knapweed Pull – Morning Dew Landscaping is coordinating a
weed pull by members of the congregation at the site of the new Catholic Church
on McMillan Mesa. Master Gardeners are requested to act as team leaders and
guides for less experienced weed pullers.
Benefits of membership – Do not forget that you get
discounts at Warner’s, Viola’s and Native Plant and Seed with your $10
membership. You may also pay for
your membership using Pay Pal. Just click on the Pay Pal link on the blog.
Financial report – Linda Guarino/Crys Wells
The Association bank balance is $2282.75.
MG Program Happenings (class/home show) –
Hattie Braun
The class is going fine. The
Home Show is coming together. The
master gardener talk schedule is set. Master Gardeners will have their own
presentation area next to the booth. Posters from the Sonoran Desert Master
Gardener Conference will be used in the Home Show booth. Sherline is taking the Home Show badges
to the extension office.
Volunteers can pick up their badges on Thursday. Sherry Markel is
improving the extension website.
Committee Reports:
Continuing
Education – Jim Mast
Susan Nyoka will talk about insects in April; Julie
McDonald in May – Farm Your Front Yard
MG Projects –
Alison Coates/Loni Shapiro
Grants for MG Projects – This year the Association will
fund $1,250 in grants to master gardener projects with the potential of funding
more. The grants will generally be
for $250. Applications will need to be submitted by May 31. The list of
approved projects is currently being updated and should be posted on the blog
by the next meeting.
Announcements
The Flagstaff Chapter of the Arizona Native Plant Society will hold
their monthly meeting on March 19 at the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
at 7 p.m. Elizabeth
Johnson will speak about "Love Blossoms at 11,000 Feet: A Story of
Hybridization in the San Francisco Peaks Groundsel".
Gardening
Questions?
My beans sprouted
but couldn’t get out of the ground.
The soil could be too heavy. Try planting shallower in a loose mulch.
My cherry tree
trunk was sunburned.
This happens frequently in Arizona on fruit trees. You can try wrapping the trunk.
Does anyone know if
the area by Butler and South San Francisco Street is known to be colder?
No.
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