Monday, March 29, 2021
Milkweed Plant and Seed Sale
When: Saturday, April 10 10:00am-2:00pm
Where: The Community Garden in the Village of Oak Creek
25 W. Saddlehorn, Big Park Community School
(the Garden is on the north field of the school, facing Verde Valley School Road)
What:
Arizona Milkweeds for Monarchs will have over 1,000 milkweeds and over 500 monarch and nectar plants for sale! Bring your 5 gallon bucket and get your plant shopping done in one location in the VOC.
Please bring cash for plant & seed purchases.
Don't forget your mask- we may be outside, but doing our part to stop the spread, means wearing a mask.
Contact Heather Hermen for more information:
928-202-2374, heather@frontburnermedia.com.
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Swarm with Patrick Pynes
From NAU Sustainability Dept.
Our friend Patrick Pynes is honoring the new spring season with an
upcoming event he calls SWARM. Come learn about bees, honey, sexuality,
democracy and more! See his description below for details.
SWARM
Behold!! A SWARM of honeybees in springtime, one of the most powerful
and “terrifying” forces of Nature. 5,000 or more bees and their mother
(the queen) boil out of their home and go searching for a new one,
leaving half of their sisters and a virgin queen behind.
For humans, honeybee SWARMS can provoke biophilia (love for the rest of
Nature) and/or biophobia (fear of the rest of Nature), although SWARMS
don’t sting.
But what IS a SWARM really? And what can beekeepers do to
encourage/discourage SWARMS and to catch or harvest them? Butterflies
are free, and so are SWARMS.
SWARMS have everything to do with springtime, with wild sexuality and
the sun, multiple partners, and rainbow-colored flowers; and with
Democracy, intelligence, and fishing, but not for fish.
In this two hour presentation and workshop, local organic top bar
beekeeper Dr. Patrick Pynes of Honeybeeteacher LLC will teach you
everything that you’ve wanted to know about SWARMS, but were afraid to
ask. Music, photographs, and video included. Local raw honey for
sampling and sale.
Audience limited to 10-12 people who will meet outdoors, or in a well-ventilated building, if the weather is too cold or windy.
Date: Saturday, April 10, 2021, ten a.m. to noon.
Place: The Center for Organic Beekeeping (COB) in Slayton Ranch/Doney Park, Arizona, near Flagstaff.
Tuition: 20 dollars suggested donation, more or less, depending upon your circumstances.
To RSVP/Directions: Write to Patrick at this e-mail address: honeybeeteacher@gmail.com, or send a text message to (928) 600-1193.
“First Come, First Served.” Children, young people, and elders welcome
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Vertical Gardening Webinar
Vertical Gardening Webinar
Event Date: March 25, 2021 11:00am to 12:00pm
Online event link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/
Payson Community Garden Spring Gardening Class #7
University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Gila County presents: Garden and Country Extension Webinar Series. From February 11 to April 15, 2021, I am proud to be hosting the spring gardening classes for the Payson Community Garden in northern Gila County. You are invited to join us and learn along with Payson’s community gardeners. Classes include soil building and its great benefits, ways to have healthy plants throughout the garden season, how to keep bugs and disease away, and harvesting at the right time. Presenters will be available for Q&A to discuss applying practices to your situation.
Featured Topic: Vertical Gardening Webinar
Featured Speaker: Carol R Noble, Payson Community Gardener: Carol joined the Payson Community Garden in May 2016 with no gardening experience. After years of interacting with other gardeners, using Google as well as trial and error, she is now a “much improved“ gardener. She has been a staff member at PCG for the past four years and a member of the Harvest Team for the past five.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Farmstand from Julie McDonald
From: Julie McDonald Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021, 01:22:16 PM MST
Subject: Farmstand! This Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning ! 5 Different Perennials, EGGS! Seeds, and the Garage Sale continues! Hello Farmstand Friends! This Wednesday, March 17 from 1-4pm, and Saturday morning, March 20, from 9-11am, the Farmstand begins in earnest here at my home, 3191 Cooper in Cheshire! The Farmstand is going to be GREAT this year! I will be offering a variety of perennials dug from my yard, ready to go into your yard! A couple of weeks ago, on one of our nice days, I dug a large number of plants, potted them and put them in the greenhouse. I have a good number ready to go. See what they are further down on the email. I also have on order lots of great things that will be arriving the end of March. Bouquets begin soon as well. Today, through Saint Patrick's Day, my eBook, the True Story of Saint Patrick of Ireland is FREE on Amazon! It is in my top 5 favorite stories I have done:) I have lots of new customers, so here are guidelines to make sure your visit is more enjoyable:
1) If I don't say your name in 5 seconds, please tell me your name.
2) I start promptly at the time on the email. I don't want to cause hard feelings among customers, so I don't open, or sell early.
3) Occasionally, I have to limit items so that everyone can get some. I will have these items marked.
4) My math skills are poor. I really DO EXPECT that you will add up your purchases for a total. I trust your math, much more than my own! There is a change can on the cart in the garage. You can make your own change from the can. Sometimes the right change is depleted, or, if you are not comfortable with making your own, I will be happy to get your change. If you forget the price of the plant, I can help with that as well, as long as there is NO MATH involved, I will be extremely happy!
5) I like to get all the pots, quart size and smaller, even the Styrofoam cups, when it is convenient for you to bring them back. I also like to get the frappuccino jars returned which I use for vases. This is how I can keep my prices so low, I continually recycle these, over and over again, and do not have to purchase them. I can take decorative pots, or other garden items that I sell or give away. I can't take any plastic pot, 1 gallon or larger. For now, I have lots of plastic bags.
Friday, March 12, 2021
AZ Native Plant Society Meeting - Flagstaff
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 7 PM MST – 8 PM MST
Price: Free · Duration: 1 hr
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook or by Zoom
Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85166153444?pwd=aitUSHI5dDd4MGlkSzN4a2V1YVUzUT09
Meeting ID: 851 6615 3444
Passcode: 789827
Speaker - Kirstin Olmon Phillips
After
recently completing a project to process the herbarium backlog at the
Museum of Northern Arizona, Botany Collections Manager Kirstin Olmon
Phillips will discuss some of the interesting findings. Learn about
several new county records, historical ethnobotanical collections from
the 1920s, and some fun plant biographies.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Pollinator-Friendly Plants for Restoration
Pollinator-Friendly Plants for Restoration
March 10 10:00 - 11:00 MST
Presented by Justin Runyon, Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), Research Entomologist
Pollinators
are essential to the survival and health of natural ecosystems but are
declining worldwide. Because of this, there is urgent need to restore
pollinators and the services they provide. One way to address this need
is to use pollinator-friendly plants in revegetation projects
(roadsides, fire rehabilitation, etc.), but land managers lack
information about which plants are best for pollinators. RMRS and
partners at Montana State University are assessing the
pollinator-friendliness of native plant species that are available for
revegetation in Montana to produce a guide identifying the best species
mixes to support the greatest number of species and abundance of
pollinators. We found that plant species vary widely in the abundance,
diversity, and community of pollinator species that each attract.
However, several plant species are superstars that are visited by most
pollinator species across a diversity of habitats. These focal-plant
species can form a backbone in seed mixes to successfully restore
diverse and stable plant and pollinator communities.
Read more on this Project Page.
Meeting ID: 161 0453 0612
Password: USFS1905!
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