Master Gardener Meeting Minutes 2/14/2013
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
1601 N. San Francisco
Continuing
Education, Freddi Steele, The Bees Around Us
Freddi Steele, a retired National Park Service
naturalist, gave a lively and informative talk about bees. She described the differences between
bees and related species, led the audience through a bee identification
exercise and outlined issues facing bees. Some recommended resources on bees
include: http://bugguide.net ( a great source
of photographs, information and identification help), the Xerces Society, http://www.xerces.org/, the Kaufman Field
Guide to Insects of North America (the easiest guide to use), and the National
Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders. Also on the
blog is a link to her Arizona Daily Sun article, “The Bees Around Us”.
Regan Emmons
– Arboretum Docent Training
Regan Emmons, the education coordinator for the
Arboretum at Flagstaff explained the docent training program and the Garden
Starts Community Supported Agriculture program. She encouraged master gardeners to become docents and join
the Garden Starts CSA. For more information and to apply for docent training,
go to http://thearb.org/about_volunteer_docent.php.
To join the Garden Starts CSA, contact flaggardenstarts@gmail.com for the
contract and seedling list.
Thanks for the
Refreshments: Andrea and Galen Guerrette, Loni Shapiro, Debi Stalvey
Business Meeting –
Debi Stalvey
We still need volunteers for Community Programs and MG
Projects. Ali Coates, the blog
editor, is willing to also do one of these.
The Master Gardener Association executive committee has
decided the Association will do at least two fundraising activities this
year. One fundraiser will continue
the calendar. A coordinator for the calendar is needed. A second fundraising activity planned
is a plant and used garden tool sale.
It will take place in May or June at the Allstate office on Cedar
Avenue. An additional fundraising
activity will be discussed next month.
The Association executive committee has decided to staff
a booth at the Earth Day celebration at City Hall on April 20. Volunteers are needed to staff the
booth. One idea for the booth is to demonstrate the difference between normal
Flagstaff soil and good garden soil.
Debi mentioned the benefits of membership, including 10 %
discounts at Flagstaff Native Plant & Seed, Viola’s Flower Garden and
Warner’s Nursery & Garden Center.
Details on the discounts are on the back of the membership card. Show your card at the nurseries for
your discount. You may also pay
for your membership using Pay Pal.
The link to it is on the right side near the top of the first blog
entry.
Debi introduced Tammy Valdovino as the new historian for the
Association.
Financial report – Linda Guarino/Crys Wells
No formal
report was available at the meeting.
A formal report will be available at the next meeting.
MG Program Happenings (class/home show) –
Hattie Braun
Master Gardener volunteers will work with Dorothy Lamm to
teach members of the congregation of the new Catholic Church how to identify
and control knapweed on their property on McMillan Mesa. The Knapweed Pull and
education days planned for the end of April and early May.
Home and Garden Show planning is in progress. Sherline Alexander shared a draft
schedule and a volunteer sign-up sheet.
The next planning meeting will be Friday, March 1 at 9 a.m. at the
extension office.
There are 20 people in the spring master gardener
class. The classes are at the
extension office. If you need to
make up a class, please contact Hattie Braun because there is limited space for
additional people in the room.
Committee Reports:
Continuing
Education – Jim Mast
Speakers are confirmed through May. March 14 – Connie Cown from the Museum
of Northern Arizona, Herbarium Project, April 11 - Susan Nyoka from the NAU SSLUG
Garden, Insects, May 9 - Julie McDonald, Farming your Front Yard.
Volunteer Support
– Crys Wells
Please get any remaining 2012 hours to Crys by February
28.
The link to the hours reporting form is on the blog.
Gardening
Questions?
Carol Kendall s volunteering at Flagstaff High School. They have a greenhouse that they want
to get it back into production for use with their culinary arts program. She asked for help since she does not
have experience with greenhouses.
Debi asked how to hollow out a stump. Someone else had an arborist use a chainsaw to hollow out a
stump. Another said that some
chemicals could be used to do so.
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