KSB Silent Auction

Star Gazers & Raisers Building KSB's Endowment

Silent Auction Items   Have you seen all the fabulous restaurant gift certificates in our silent auction?      L'Auberge Rene Restaurant Lisa Dahl restaurants Tii Gavo (Enchantment) Elote Grill at Shadow Rock (Hilton) Heartline Café El Rincon Sound Bites The Turquoise Room (La Posada) Picazzo's The Hudson Harry's Hideaway Golden Goose Online bidding starts on November 3  for over 100 silent auction items. To see all our Dining, Food and Wine items, click Here      Register to Bid In order to participate in the online silent auction, you first need to register as a bidder by calling KSB at 928-282-4938.  Credit Card Information You will be asked for your name, email address, phone number, and  credit card information. This information will be entered into our online bidding web site, securely administered by the online auction software company Greater Giving.   Your credit card information will be encrypted and secured, but is required prior to bidding. You will then be given a bidder number.   To read more about online bidding,  click Here Attending the Silent Auction   All items that have not yet been sold "Buy it Now" will be open for additional bidding at our KSB Auction to be held at 3:00 pm on Sunday November 13 at the Hilton Sedona Resort at Bell Rock. You will want to attend this exciting silent auction,  so please reserve Here.

MNA - Living Room Lecture Series

LIVING ROOM LECTURE SERIES - MEMBER EXCLUSIVE 

Wednesday, October 19 | 6-8 pm  Secrets in the Soil: Volcanic Landscapes of Northern Arizona MEMBER EXCLUSIVE $10 per person Join the Museum's geoarchaeologist Dr. Kirk Anderson for a fascinating discussion of northern Arizona's volcanic landscapes. How have they changed? How did pre-contact people adapt their activities to differently aged volcanoes? How old is SP Crater? What are the secrets in the soil that connect all of these disparate questions together?  RSVP required. Call 928.774.5211, ext. 219, or email membership@musnaz.org

CMGA Monthly Meeting Agenda

Coconino Master Gardener Meeting Agenda

Thursday, October 13– 6:30pm

Flagstaff Aquaplex

1702 N Fourth St.   NOTE CHANGE

6:30pm – 6:40pm    Welcome – Jim Mast

  *     Christmas Party (December 15)
6:40pm – 6:45pm     Introduction of Speaker – Loni Shapiro
6:55pm – 7:55pm    Education:  Inviting Beneficial Critters to the Garden and Landscape – Jackee Alston
7:55pm– 8:10pm    15 minute break:  we get to have refreshments!!
8:10pm - 8:25pm    Business Meeting – Jim Mast
  *   Nominations – Crys Wells
  *   Financial report – Sue Madden
  *   Committee Reports:
         *   Volunteer Support – Crys Wells
         *   Fundraising – Sherline Alexander
              *   Calendar:  For sale now, need help with distribution
              *   Fall Garden Clean up update
       *   Continuing Education – Loni Shapiro
              *   Suggestions for meeting topics
       *   MG Projects – Jackee Alston
       *   Historian – Tammy Valdovino
       *   Community Markets – Andrea Guerrette
8:25pm – 8:30pm    Gardening Questions?          
Next meeting:  November 10:  Creating a Rain Garden – Amy Caldwell

Educational and Volunteer Opportunities from the blog (coconinomgassociation.blogspot.com)

Great American Seed Up

 

 

 

The Great American Seed Up
October 29, 2016

Download the Oct ’16 Seed List -> october-2016-seed-up-list

2 Sessions 8:30 to 11:30 or 1:30 to 4:30Held at Uptown Farmers Market &North Phoenix Baptist Church 5757 N Central, 85012

Purchase Your Tickets Now. First 400 attendees will receive a copy of Bill McDorman’s Basic Seed Saving (Picked up day of the event, while supplies last.

 

Local seed saving festival will center on seed diversity and education

After the phenomenal success of our first two Great American Seed Up events – farmers and gardeners across the Southwest will have another unique opportunity to collect, preserve and learn about local seeds once again. On October 29, 2016 the Great American Seed-Up will take place in Phoenix, Arizona at Uptown Farmer’s Market which is held at North Phoenix Baptist Church. Here is how it works.

1. Purchase a ticket ($7.50, first 400 includes a hard copy of Basic Seed Saving, picked up the day of the event)
2. Attend the event, take classes
3. Scoop your seeds!!!

Imagine walking into a room filled with over 60 varieties of seeds ready to literally be scooped up and taken home for planting or saving. This is exactly what the Great American Seed-Up is all about. “The idea is to give valley residents and opportunity to learn about seed saving, and then to harvest as many pounds or ounces of seed to take home,” says Greg Peterson, Urban Farm Founder and local seed saver. We are partnering with the Uptown Phoenix Farmers Market and holding the event at North Phoenix Baptist Church at 5757 N Central Ave, Phx 85012. The event features a seed bazaar with bulk quantities of popular vegetable seed varieties available for purchase at bulk discounts. Attendees are encouraged to buy and share the seeds with their neighborhood and community groups to spur local gardening and seed saving efforts. “We’re trying to get seeds in the hands of the people,” says Seed-Up co-organizer Bill McDorman of Seedsave.org. “The more seed diversity we have growing in our neighborhood gardens and backyard plots, the more resilient we’ll be as a community.  These seeds are the best varieties we can find in bulk to help you start your seed saving adventure.” Also featured at the Seed-Up will be presentations and workshops with seed experts to spread knowledge about traditional and modern seed saving practices. Discussion topics will include: how to save and store seeds, planting and starting seeds, how to start a seed library, how to properly store your new seeds and how to grow a garden using your new seeds.  Full details and a line-up of speakers will be available as the event approaches. The Great American Seed-Up is presented by Seedsave.org, The Urban Farm, the Micro Farm Project, and Grow PHX.

Seed - The Untold Story

Seed and Gardening Friends,

I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Sedona showing of SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY last night. What a stunning masterpiece! I couldn't think of a way John and Taggart could make the film better. It was informative, entertaining, and gorgeous. And what a timely topic! If ever you've been wanting to know more about the loss of genetic diversity on the planet, the impacts of seed extinction, how rare seeds are discovered all over the world, or what GMO really means, this is the movie for you. It's told with truth all while maintaining an optimistic outlook for the future.

We have a chance to view it here in Flagstaff at Harkins if we can get about 40 more people to order advanced tickets. There are only four days left to do so! You can order them here: 

https://gathr.us/screening/17768

View the movie trailer here for a teaser:  http://www.seedthemovie.com/trailer

I'll be at the event, should we get enough people, with information about our own seed library and a list of seeds available at our location. I can also answer any questions you might have after the showing. 

Lastly and not unrelated, please, Please, PLEASE bring the seeds from your end-of-season harvest back to the seed library. So far I've only had one person return a few seeds. It's important that we do this both to keep the library going but also for the preservation of our local diversity.

Happy Friday,

Jackee Alston

Viola's Flower Garden

Viola's Flower Garden re-opened for business today (Oct. 1) in their new location on 89A (former site for Jackson's Grill). They are selling pumpkins and gourds now while getting settled in. They will have Christmas trees in late Nov. - early Dec.. The nursery will be stocked in the spring. The building on the property will be used for events/weddings and as a back-up for nursery events if it rains/snows. Stop by to support one of our local nurseries, see the new site, and visit with Robin and Art.

Loni Shapiro

New Master Gardeners

Congratulations to our newest Master Gardeners!

Joan Degenkolb (2016)

Pam Chaney (2016)
Lynn Schiek (2016)
Pam Baker (2016)
Jacquelyn Gabert (2015)
Jessica Delmar (2015)
Michael Finney (2015)
Amy Caldwell (2014)
Lawrence Yazzie (2013)
Judy Springer

 Thank you for all your hard work! Hattie

 Hattie Braun

County Director/Horticulture, Coconino County
University of Arizona Cooperative Extension
2304 N. 3rd St.
Flagstaff, AZ  86004
Phone: 928-774-1868 x 170

FAX: 928-774-1860

CMGA Fall Yard Clean-up Raffle

Yeah! We have winners for the clean-up - Susan Thompson and Sue Holiday.  The alternate winners  of sping bulbs are Janis Lipton, PJ Wiebe and Monet Martin. $975 was raised with the raffle, with expenses of $144, netting $831 to add to our funds for next years master gardener projects. Sherline Alexander is looking for volunteers to help with the clean-up in October. Contact her (sherline.alexander@nau.edu) if you want to help.

Ticket will be available for our 3rd Annual Yard Clean-up  Raffle at our next monthly meeting on 8/11, 630pm.  It is at the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (1601 N. San Francisco). There will be a table at Warner’s Nursery each Saturday for selling tickets August 13, 20, 27 and September 3 from 10am-2pm.  Tickets will also be available at the extension office, call 928-774-1868 ext.190.   The drawing will be September 10^th  at our Master Gardener Appreciation meeting.

Susan Thompson and Gilli Thomas are co-chairing the event this year.  They can be contacted at;

Susan Thompson, fall cleanup co-chair
Susan421@npgcable.com
928-606-1799 (accept text)

Gillian Thomas, fall cleanup co-chair

Gth19@aol.com
732-687-3184

Follow this LINK for details and cost on our flyer. Watch this space for more details on where to purchase raffle tickets.

Annual Master Gardener Recognition Picnic

Please join us for the 9th Annual

Master Gardener Recognition Picnic Sunday, Sept. 25, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
at Fort Tuthill, Navajo Ramada

All newly certified Master Gardeners will be recognized!
The Master Gardener Program will provide tableware, meat and veggies to grill and drinks. Please bring a dessert (last name A-G), side (H-Q), or salad (R-Z), preferably something from your garden. There will be lots of food so if you managed to use up all your zucchini by then or ran out of time to cook ‘cause you were working in your garden, please come regardless!
Everyone is invited! This includes all certified MGs, MGs still working on hours, MG class participants, family members and friends.
Please RSVP to Hattie at 774-1868 ext. 170 or by e-mail to hbraun@cals.arizona.edu with the number attending by Sept. 22.

Flagstaff Native Plant Society Meetings & Walks

Monthly walks are usually on the 4th Sunday of each month and are announced via e-mail and in the newspaper. Unless otherwise announced, meet at the Arizona State Credit Union parking lot, southwest corner of Beaver and Butler at 8:30 a.m.

Come prepared with sun protection and/or rain protection, water, snacks, lunch, and a car or gas money for carpooling. For more information, email Barbara Phillips atbagphillips@yahoo.com or call her at 928.853. 3355.

Tuesday, September 20The Wild Orchids of Arizona and New Mexico
Ron Coleman, Author and Orchid Researcher, will present his talk “The Wild Orchids of Arizona and New Mexico,” which is based on his 2002 book of the same name. Ron will discuss the orchid species that grow wild in Arizona and New Mexico,
covering blooming season, habitat, and distribution. Within the United States, several of these orchids are found only in Arizona and New Mexico.
Walk: To be determined.

Ron is a student of the native orchids of the United States, specializing in the wild orchids of the Southwest. He is the author of over 40 orchid articles that have appeared in the Orchids, The Orchid Digest, Fremontia, Selbyana, and Madrano. Two wild orchid species are named after him, and he has described two new taxa. Ron is the author of The Wild Orchids of California, published in 1995 and The Wild Orchids of Arizona and New Mexico, published in 2002. He co-authored the orchid treatment in Arizona Rare Plant Field Guide prepared by the Arizona Rare Plant Committee, and was co-author of two orchid genus treatments in the Flora of North America, Vol 2, published in 2002. Ron wrote major portions of the orchid treatment for the new Jepson Manual Flora of California published in 2012.