Showing posts with label MNA. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
Thursday, June 6, 2019
MNA Spring Garden Tours and Events
Early Season Seedling Swap and
Sale at MNA
Calling all Gardening
Ninjas! Get a head start on the growing season with Flagstaff's first
early season Seedling Swap and Sale at MNA. Bring your extra seed starts to
swap or load up on hardy starts grown by Flagstaff farmers. This event will
take place from 10am-1pm at the Colton Community Garden at MNA. FREE workshop
offered 10am-1pm on self-wicking bed construction.
Direction from downtown Flagstaff: take
180 North towards MNA. Turn right on Winding Brooke Lane. Park at the
"T" in front of Newberry Cabin. Garden just behind and to your
left.
Sponsored by Flagstaff
Foodlink, MNA and U of A Cooperative Extension Office.
MNA Horticulture Tours led by Jan Busco
Tours start at 10 am on select Saturday mornings and are limited
in size. Tours include an optional
45 minute educational hands-on volunteer activity. Advance
tickets can be purchased at https://shopmusnaz.org/collections/tickets
Jan Busco has worked with native plants
for more than three decades and is the curator of MNA’s gardens and grounds.
She has written three books on western native plants; Native Plants for
High-Elevation Western Gardens (Fulcrum Press 2010, 2004), First Garden: How to
get Started in Southwestern Gardening (Cool Springs Press 2005) and First
Garden: How to get Started in California Gardening.
May 4. Horticulture Tour: Early bloomers & cool season
grasses
Learn about early blooming plants
and cool season grasses on this guided tour with MNA Horticulturist Jan Busco.
Be ready to walk and spend time outside in the MNA research campus open space
and around Coyote Springs. A seedling and plant sale follows. Feel free to
bring a picnic lunch.
June 1 Golightly courtyard, Exhibits building
Living Exhibitions like the Life Zones in the Golightly
Courtyard take a special kind of care and curation. Learn about the plants
featured in and around the museum exhibits building, how they are selected,
planted and cared for and their place in the natural landscape. After the tour, participants are invited to stay for a brief
45 minute volunteer activity. Feel free to bring lunch for a picnic.
Friday, June 10, 2016
MNA - Jaime Major Golightly Courtyard Dedication
Please Join Us
Thursday, June 30, 2016
at the Museum of Northern Arizona
For a private dedication of the beautifully renovated Jaime Major Golightly Courtyard.
5:00 pm Refreshments
5:30 pm Remarks & Dedication
6:00 pm "Thirsty Thursday・ programming with live music by bluegrass group Heartwood
RSVP ♦ Anne Franke
afranke@musnaz.org ♦ 928.774.5211, ext 227
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