EVENTS
SEED FOR THOUGHT: PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE
March 4, 2:00 pm: Chickens in the Garden
Chickens are a wonderful addition to any garden; they provide eggs, wonderful fertilizer, and lots of company! Learn the ins and outs of housing, feeding and tending chickens, and meet a couple of the ladies (hens). (Meets in the Children's Room)
Presenter Gretel Anspach is a trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a lifetime master gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, and a recently-retired systems engineer for Raytheon. Gretel helped to establish and maintain two food production gardens that have provided fresh produce to the Marlboro Food Pantry for the last eight years.
March 11, 2:00 pm: Vegetable Gardening for Everyone
Vegetable gardening is something everyone can enjoy, from the novice to the experienced gardener. It can be a way to bring fresh food to your table, teach children where food comes from, or even a way to beautify your yard! We'll look at different types of vegetable gardens and discuss layout, variety choices, and growing techniques. (Meets in the library meeting room)
Susan Hammond is a lifetime master gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association. She has been gardening since childhood, with a special focus on edible plants. She is the past keeper of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's 6000 square-foot Garden to Table Vegetable Garden, which produces up to 4000 pounds a year of produce for local food pantries, while educating volunteers and the public about vegetable gardening.
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March 18, 11:00 am: Not Your Grandmother's Hostas
Hostas are the #1 selling perennial in the United States today. If you only grow the green and white ones, you are missing out on the huge variety of colors, sizes, and shapes of today's hostas. This talk will help you identify some new plants that you will absolutely have to have, identify the best places to buy them, and teach you how to make them look their best. (Meets in the meeting room.)
Stephen Shaw retired from the Weston Public Schools in 2010 after 36 years as a teacher and principal. Steve joined the Massachusetts Master Gardeners in 2012, becoming a principal master gardener and serving on the education committee of the MMGA. He has been gardening for over 40 years, beginning by watching both Thalassa Cruso and Jim Crockett on PBS as a youngster. He has collected many different kinds of plants over that time, including lilacs, peonies, daylilies, and, of course, hosta. His one-acre garden in Millbury includes over 300 named varieties of hosta, as well as an increasing number of seedlings of his own creation.