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September 27, 2009
A Shot of Cougar Urine
Master Gardener Column 9/26/09
On a summer's eve at dusk, as the Scots would say, "in the gloaming," meinie Überfrau called me to watch two baby skunks at play. Nosing around in our flower garden, tumbling and wrestling, they scooted underneath our deck when a squadron of squawking ravens flew overhead.
At a distance, I've always had an affinity for skunks because their spray smelled afar recalls vacations as a child. I knew we were out of town and on our way when I smelled skunks.
Parenthetically, a client once told me that she relishes diesel fumes because they reminded her of the diesel buses during her student days in Paris.
What to do? Everyone has friends and relatives best kept at bay, having previously suffered their spray. How to save the skunks, the better to relish their odor from afar? After rebuffs from several governmental agencies, Arizona Game and Fish gave me the telephone number of Dan Caputo of Arizona Wildlife Consultants.
As with everything else, it's in the mindset, that is, how to think about the problem. Dan's mindset is training, as in training a puppy, training elk, deer, squirrels, skunks, raccoons, and other unwelcome critters to keep a distance.
It's best done by making them uncomfortable, Dan calling it, "giving wildlife a sense that the garden is not a safe place."
If gardeners want to keep those gorgeous elk and deer and ugly javelina from mowing down their tulips, a shot or two of cougar urine would make them feel unwelcome, indeed, threatened. Electric fencing works, but it's iffy with children. Coyote urine does the same for squirrels, skunks, raccoons, and other small varmints.
In addition to the deer and elk's senses of smell, their sight is acute, giving them a heightened sense of motion which means motion sensors during the evening and early morning feeding hours. Once the alarms are sounded, beating pots and pans, flashing lights, and streams of water makes them feel unwelcome. It would me.
The stink of ammonia in a malodorous cat's litter box offends everyone, even cat lovers. Rags, soaked in ammonia, placed here and there in a garden will do wonders to discomfit wildlife.
Sight and smell can be used to freak out skunks. In addition to some shots of coyote urine and ammonia soaked rags, a windsock emblazoned as a hawk puts out the unwelcome mat. Cayenne pepper also irks them.
Squirrels' vulnerable senses are sight and sound. Banging pots and pans and water hoses makes squirrels feel unwelcome. Now, of course, not all squirrels are the same. Flagstaff's flagship squirrel, the Abert's, isn't as destructive as the antelope ground squirrel and the rock squirrel. The latter two relish the fruits of a garden as I discovered when I watched a rock squirrel savor a Sasha's Altai tomato on our deck and then leisurely sun itself as it digested my tomato. I was so charmed by its insouciance that I couldn't bring myself to chase it away.
On the contrary, Dan said, gardeners shouldn't train wildlife to hang around the garden. Feeding them is like throwing out the welcome mat, especially for the deer and elk, it's training them not to forage for themselves and, thus, not survive.
As for gophers, Dan suggested galvanized grates. A friend of mine urinates down their tunnels but makes no claims for efficacy other than emotional relief as in "There! Damn you." Apparently, no one, not even the communists, has developed re-education program for prairie dogs.
Persistence and perseverance are Dan's watch words. Training wildlife is not a one shot job. Also, trapping and releasing is just a Bandaid. The animals will either come back or others will take their place.
Sadly, Dan pleads ignorance about harvesting cougar and coyote urine, suggesting instead Googling the internet for a source.
With a passion for wildlife Dan knows whereof he speaks. Raised in Flagstaff, he graduated from NAU with a degree in biology and was for ten years a wildlife manager and biologist with the Department of Game and Fish, responsible for the area from Flagstaff to Camp Verde. His telephone number is (928) 864-6768.
Dana Prom Smith, a Master Gardener volunteer, is coordinating editor for the Master Gardener Column. He can be contacted at stpauls@npgcable.com. For gardening questions, please call the Master Gardener Hotline at 774-1868 ext.19 or visit the Master Gardener Web Site: highelevationgardening.arizona.edu
Posted by maxmaddy at 7:46 AM
September 25, 2009
Olivia White Garden Project Workday 10/1/09
On Thursday our regular garden crew worked just from 8am-1030am. We watered, filled bird feeders and baths and planted some perennials. On my vacation last week I brought back some wonderful grasses and perennials from High Country Gardens. They were on sale for 25% off so who could resist. Crys Wells also dug up some extras from her garden to add to the hospice garden - cone flower, Shasta daisy, potentilla, and caryopteris. David Hockman was back to digging holes for many of these shrubs/plants.
At 1030am we stopped and began a Celebration of Life for my mom. 2 bricks were placed for her in the gazebo. I brought some memorabilia (photos, paintings, letters from camp, army purse, baby shoes) to share and had a couple of stories about our life together. Other friends also shared stories. Celebrations of Life are such a nice way for family and friends to remember and learn more about someone they cared about.
After the celebration we all shared in our annual end of season potluck. I still think we could open a restaurant if we were so inclined. The food was abundant and wonderful, along with the company. Besides the gardeners some of mom's friends attended. Everyone took home one of her hand made potholders.
Thank you:
Belated thanks to Randy Wilson for the nice article and photo in the Daily Sun. It has brought several visitors to the garden.
To all who shared in the Celebration of Life and potluck for my Mom
Crys Wells for some shrubs and plants
Alice Rader, Nancy Palmer, Marcia Lamkin, Cynthia & Al Katte, and Betty Marcus for their generous gifts to the garden in memory of my Mom
The regular garden crew for their generous gift to me - a day at the spa when the season is over (or maybe sooner)
Workday agenda:
Watering
Mulching roses for winter
Bringing in frost sensitive herbs
Thinning iris
Planting a few perennials
Filling and cleaning bird feeders and baths
We will still be in the gardens working in October if you want to join us. The focus will be on putting the garden to bed for the winter and planting fall bulbs. The Saturday workday for October will be on the 17th from 9am-12pm. Weather permitting we will focus on bulb planting. We have a variety of tulips, dafodils, and squill to plant. The Grand Canyon Youth Corp will be joining us.
Come join us for our regular Thursday workday. Things are never dull and you can learn a great deal about high elevation gardening from the variety of master gardeners and the many trees, shrubs and plants we have. You can come for any or all of the scheduled time. Bring a hat, sun screen, gloves and any tools you like to work with (we also have tools and gloves but our supply is limited). Water and snacks are provided. Parking is not allowed at the home. Park at the 1st Congregation Church on Turquoise just past Switzer Canyon Drive.
Thanks, Loni Shapiro
928-522-8635
maxmaddy@infomagic.net
"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil.
And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November."
- Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905
Posted by maxmaddy at 5:28 AM
Bees in the 'Hood'
Master Gardener Column 9/19/09
Flagstaff is a bustling mountain town in summer, a gateway to the Grand Canyon, and a refuge for our scorched neighbors to the south. Our high elevation gardens are also teeming with activity as we harvest veggies and keep gophers and weeds at bay. A key to our gardens' success is one of nature's most dynamic and fascinating creatures, an animal whose constant and quivering movement was noted in the Proto-Germanic (bion) and Old English (beo) languages - the bee. Bees are part of the insect order Hymenoptera that also includes ants, wasps, and sawflies. They are 1/8-inch to one inch long, have two sets of lightly veined transparent wings, may be black, brown, banded with white, yellow, or burnt orange, and are distinguished from their hairless relatives by having fuzzy bodies and heads.
Most of what we know about early bees has been derived from amber (fossilized plant resin), used as a nesting material and occasionally entrapping them. According to Cornell University's Department of Entomology, the fossil record shows that bees evolved from wasps, and as they progressed with prehistoric flowering plants, changed their food sources from other insects to nectar. There are approximately 3,500 species of bees occurring in North America.
Sidling up to a flowering plant buzzing with insect activity, we can see glittering wings resolve into a number of essential pollinators. The most recognizable visitor is the Honey Bee with alternating rings of black and yellow around its abdomen; however, unlike other bees, it has hairy eyes. Other relatives timeshare flower space such as the Leafcutter Bee, with silver fuzz on its thorax, and oval green eyes. Next are several species of the insect tribe Bombini, Bumble Bees, which have black bodies and either entirely yellow or bands of orange and yellow hair.
In the US Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-36, Flagstaff is in one of six "Sky Island" mountain ranges that make up the Madrean Archipelago, habitat for a dozen bumble bee species. Third are imposters with only one pair of wings that compete with bees for resources, such as rusty-red Bee Flies, wasp-like Hover Flies, and spiny-legged Robber Flies. These pretenders share a taste for nectar. In addition, Bee Flies lay their eggs in bee larvae and burrows to host their own offspring.
Bees have been in the news a lot lately. Africanized bees, "Honey Bees with an attitude," will chase perceived threats up to a quarter of a mile and have been found in Flagstaff but not in sufficient numbers to pose a threat. Their venom is the same strength as that of Honey Bees, but they are more likely to attack en masse. As much as we value their pollinator efforts, it is best to leave their management to trained professionals.
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) affects bees and our greater economy, since almost everything we eat involves bee pollination. CCD is an abrupt disappearance of bee colonies believed to be caused by bee-specific mites, viruses, or environmental pollution. A third problem that intrigues gardeners and researchers alike is the possible extinction of several Bumble Bee species probably caused by an escaped exotic disease. The Xerces Society (www.xerces.org) is devoted to Bumble Bee status and actively works with both scientists and citizens to track them.
Years ago as a park ranger at Scottys Castle in Death Valley, I had a close encounter with a gigantic black winged beast. It tracked my every move, like Nomad, the planet-destroying space probe in the original Star Trek series (episode 32). It seemed fascinated by my tales of Death Valley Scotty, hovering at eye level less than a foot away. California carpenter bees, black with metallic blue glints on their bodies, are very curious, and protective of their nests drilled into wood, which at the Castle included structural redwood beams. Since then, I have given bees their space, being careful not to startle them. At times, they seem sentient, first noting my presence in the garden, then ignoring me as if to say, "Oh, it's only you." Bees are essential to the health of our gardens. They provide the natural music that brings back the breezy timelessness of summer.
Freddi Steele is a Master Gardener volunteer and a former naturalist with the National Park Service. Dana Prom Smith is a Master Gardener volunteer and the coordinating editor for the Master Gardener Column. He can be contacted at stpauls@npgcable.com. For more information about the Master Gardener Program, call Hattie Braun at 774-1868 ext.17 or visit our Web Site: highelevationgardening.arizona.edu.
Posted by maxmaddy at 5:14 AM
Gardening in Complete Sentences
Master Gardener Column 9/12/09
"Grandpa, you should talk to Roxie in one word commands." Our granddaughter and my namesake, Dana Marie, heard me talking to Roxie, our three-legged, pink-nosed, aging yellow lab, in complete sentences. A third year student at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, she's inclined to rational thinking, evidence, and analysis. A tall, blue-eyed, neocortical blonde, she owns a steel-trap mind.
I replied that while dogs don't cognitively understand complete sentences, they do emotionally. Actually, their emotional intelligence is better than most human beings. "Besides, some sentences carry embedded one word commands."
She continued, "Gretchen says that you even talk to plants, birds, squirrels, bees, and skunks in complete sentences." I replied, "Not always. Sometimes, I curse them, but I remain engaged. A garden isn't a machine with interchangeable parts like cars. It's an organism, everything affects everything else. Rather than syllogisms, a garden is better off with tender mercies."
A self-confessed technophile, she drifted off by the fireplace using Roxie as a pillow, fiddling with her Blackberry, never mentioning Gretchen's conversations with the television set.
Gardening's a relief from soulless "I-It," formulaic relationships, from answering machines' disembodied voices, ideologically-driven, non-thinking decisions, and digitized human beings. Gardening is "I-Thou," "up close and personal," if a little chaotic. Gardening's largely limbic which, as one widely unaccepted theory has it, is that middle layer of the brain we share with other mammals, not the neocortical which we, as humans, share perhaps only with some anthropoids and extraterrestrials.
The neocortex is the brains' newest evolutionary layer, giving us the ability to think rationally, to solve problems, and, also, to lie. Jean-Paul Sartre in Being and Nothingness wrote, "bad faith is a lie to oneself." His mauvais faux nowadays is called "denial." The neocortex also gives us the capacity for self-consciousness, like talking to ourselves, as in "why did I do that?" However, it comes with a price. As with Shakespeare's Brutus, we're often at war with ourselves, "forgetting the shows of love to other men."
Dogs, birds, squirrels, and plants don't lie. Often a puzzlement, they're never deceitful although Roxie sneaks off when no one is looking.
Gardening is limbic, an emotional experience. Some people love life, some don't, and some aren't sure, but a committed gardener is a lover which is both an emotion and a virtue. Gardeners love to watch things grow, fret over plants that don't thrive, grieve at a plant's death, and, most of all, celebrate the flowering of life. In short, gardeners embrace the chiefest of virtues and the finest of emotions which makes them out of step with much of the lowest brain layer in modern life, the "gotcha" reptilian.
Also, gardening is alien to the frenetic, fast-paced quality of modern life. Nothing changes time's sequences. As with Ol' Man River, gardens just keep "rollin' along." They can't be hurried. No fast lanes. With the rhythms of nature, gardeners are in tune, if not with the "music of the spheres," with the harmonies of the earth.
Gardening may seem absurd to many people, but cold, impersonal, fast-paced rational, formulaic modernity hasn't done much for human equilibrium, either. Putting it plainly, the neocortex enables us to stress out, probably the biggest killer in our time. Getting in sync with nature's beat works by relaxing us and, thereby, allowing our neocortex to function efficiently without mauvais foi gumming it up. Our senses relax us. Gardening is about those senses. Modern, fast-paced neocortical frenzy doesn't pay much attention to the senses.
Drifts of daffodils and the elegant beauty of bearded irises, the aroma of roses and lavender, and the taste of tomatoes and snap beans just off the vine connect us with the rhythms of nature, whereby we regain our emotional balance and relieve our inner conflicts.
Ahedoniacs, people who don't relish their sensate pleasures, suffer emotional disequilibrium, neocortically stressing out at inevitable absurdities. The reptilian's Schadenfreude gives little relief and neither do alcohol or drugs. Gardeners, on the other hand, know that the best antidote for stress is the scents, scenes, tastes, and sensations of a garden in bloom, relishing the touch of life.
Dana Prom Smith, a Master Gardener volunteer, is coordinating editor for the Master Gardener Column. He can be contacted at stpauls@npgcable.com. For gardening questions, please call the Master Gardener Hotline at 774-1868 ext.19 or visit the Master Gardener Web Site: highelevationgardening.arizona.edu.
Posted by maxmaddy at 5:06 AM
September 23, 2009
Olivia White Garden Project Workday 9/24/09
Last week while I was on vacation, Nancy Palmer was in charge in the garden. She had our crews watering, weeding, mulching, and doing general clean-up in preparation for the Friday Highland Garden Conference Tours. In attendance were, Crys Wells, David Hockman, Linda Guarino, Marcia Lamkin, Leslie Penick and Carol Lease. Joe Harte had also returned after a stint with Foxglove Gardening.
Karen Kent was in charge on Friday and the tours went well. Some of our crew spent time placing a brick for Karen Kent who is leaving the garden. She will be spending winters in Flagstaff and summers in northern Michigan.
Thank you:
Nancy Palmer, Karen Kent, Linda Guarino, Crys Wells, Cynthia Katte, Marcia Lamkin and Laura Davis for hosting the Arizona Highlands Garden Tours
Tom Gosch from Mountain Stoneworks for a quick turn around for bricks
Workday agenda:
Watering
Weeding
Mulching roses for winter
Bringing in frost sensitive herbs
The workday will be from 8am-1030am. At 1030am we will be doing a short Celebration of Life for my mom who worked in the gardens until this year. It will be followed by our annual harvest end of season potluck.
We will still be in the gardens working in October if you want to join us. The focus will be on putting the garden to bed for the winter and planting fall bulbs. The Saturday workday for October will be on the 17th from 9am-12pm. Weather permitting we will focus on bulb planting. We have a variety of tulips, dafodils, and squill to plant.
Come join us for our regular Thursday workday. Things are never dull and you can learn a great deal about high elevation gardening from the variety of master gardeners and the many trees, shrubs and plants we have. You can come for any or all of the scheduled time. Bring a hat, sun screen, gloves and any tools you like to work with (we also have tools and gloves but our supply is limited). Water and snacks are provided. Parking is not allowed at the home. Park at the 1st Congregation Church on Turquoise just past Switzer Canyon Drive.
Thanks, Loni Shapiro
928-522-8635
maxmaddy@infomagic.net
"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil.
And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November."
- Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905
Posted by maxmaddy at 7:01 AM
September 22, 2009
Annual Master Gardener Barbeque
Please join us for the 2nd annual Master Gardener barbeque. Please RSVP to Linda at linda.guarino@gmail.com or call 526-2693.
Please join us for the 2nd Annual Master Gardener Barbeque and Recognition Event
Sunday, September 27th from 3:30-6:00pm in the Maricopa Ramada, Fort Tuthill County Park
Master Gardeners who have completed 50 hours will receive their badges and be recognized.
All Master Gardeners, MGs-in-training and their families are invited.
If you can join us, please RSVP to Linda at lindaguarino@gmail.com or call 526-2693.
Hattie Braun
Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Coconino County Cooperative Extension
2304 N. 3rd St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86004
Phone: 928-774-1868 x 17
FAX: 928-774-1860
Posted by maxmaddy at 6:56 AM
September 17, 2009
Olivia White Hospice Home Workday 9/19/09
The garden is beginning to look and feel like fall. Many perennials are in need of dead heading and the sumac, maple, and aspens are beginning to change color.
Last Thursday many of our regular gardeners were in attendance. Karen Kent spent her time dead heading and moving some plants to better locations. Leslie Penick worked on the compost pile. She will be in charge of it now that Karen is leaving. Linda Guarino worked on her usual drip leaks and managed to redo an area in the rose garden. She moved some iris and planted a Sally Holmes Rose that has been living in a pot this season. Nancy Palmer moved some plants in the front beds and filled all the bird feeders and baths. Marcia Lamkin and Crys Wells both watered the front and back beds. Carol Leasefinished tagging the shrubs. David Hockman did his usual hole digging for a rose and to move some shrubs.
New blooms:
Fall asters throughout the garden
September 18 2009 Highlands Garden Conference Tours
10am-4pm
September 19, 2009 - workday
Watering as needed
Weeding as needed
Dead heading as needed (lavender, Shasta daisy, moonshine yarrow)
Cleaning and filling bird baths and feeders
Clean and re-organize the shed
Preparing for Friday Open House
cleaning
sweeping
getting materials ready
Come join us for our regular Thursday workday. Things are never dull and you can learn a great deal about high elevation gardening from the variety of master gardeners and the many trees, shrubs and plants we have. You can come for any or all of the scheduled time. Bring a hat, sun screen, gloves and any tools you like to work with (we also have tools and gloves but our supply is limited). Water and snacks are provided. Parking is not allowed at the home. Park at the 1st Congregation Church on Turquoise just past Switzer Canyon Drive.
Thanks, Loni Shapiro
928-522-8635
maxmaddy@infomagic.net
"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil.
And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November."
- Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905
Posted by maxmaddy at 8:03 AM
September 7, 2009
Native Plant Society Monthly Program and Fieldtrip
Hello faithful plant lovers!
I am very excited about the upcoming Talk and Walk. It's all about trees!!! It's time for us to raise our heads from the understory to take a long hard look at what it is that's up there creating all that shade.
Evening Program Talk: Tuesday, September 15th NAU Bio Rm 328 7:00p.m.
"Managing the Urban Forest Through Modern Arboriculture" by I.S.A. Certified Arborist and local professional tree climber Brian Marshall. Mr. Marshall will speak on common problems, misconceptions, and challenges that homeowners in northern Arizona face in managing mature trees. Topics include: tree selection and planting for landscape use, pruning, proper watering techniques for mature trees, tree defects and risk assessment. Mr. Marshall will also cover issues that directly concern those of us living in the world's largest continuous Ponderosa Pine forest, such as being fire wise, thinning, and mitigating and protecting against bark beetles and the damage they inflict.
Weekend Field Trip: Sunday, September 20th meet up time TBA
A walk with Mr. Marshall through Flagstaff's downtown neighborhoods discussing various examples of challenges our trees face in an urban environment and how we as educated homeowners can make our trees healthier and our environment more beautiful.
All talks begin at 7:00 p.m. on the 3rd Tuesday of the month and are held at Room 328 of the Biology Building on the NAU campus (unless a room change comes about, which we will alert you to). All walks meet at 10:00 a.m. on either the 3rd Saturday or Sunday of the month at the Prochnow parking lot on the NAU campus, corners of Milton and Butler Aves. Come prepared with sun protection, water, food, and a car or gas money for carpooling.
For information about the Flagstaff Chapter, contact
President--Jessa Fisher, email (nightbloomingcactus@yahoo.com) or (928) 814-2644;
Treasurer--H. David Hammond (928) 523-7242
Posted by maxmaddy at 7:24 PM
September 4, 2009
Upside-Down Tomatoes Right Side Up
Master Gardener Column 9/5/09
My garden sits on bedrock at the base of Mt. Eldon. I tried to grow tomatoes in a small raised bed, but they required too much time and watering for a limited crop, so I chose to plant my tomatoes in containers.
Each spring I teach a class at CCC on container gardening. A part of the curriculum is reviewing different types of containers. For the last few years, participants have asked about the containers advertised on television for growing tomatoes upside down. I usually brush aside the questions because I've had poor results with them, preferring to talk about the ones that work in Flagstaff and about suitable containers.
The first year I tried the upside down containers, I went through 3 tomato plants trying to stuff the plant into the small styrofoam hole at the bottom without killing it. When I finally got a plant to survive squeezing it into a small hole, it remained small, never producing any fruit. Also, finding something strong enough to hold about 17 quarts of wet soil, even after amending the soil with a great deal of perlite, is frustrating. I ended up with a large hook on my deck.
The problem is that they are contrary to what tomatoes like, hot dry tops and wet roots. Going against nature is a sure prescription for failure. The hanging basket needs to be high enough to get good sunlight. This year I found a new device that allowed easier planting. I did better, but the plant still wanted to climb to the sun. It was difficult to water the reservoir without getting the leaves wet. I finally got tomatoes, and then one of our famous wind storms broke off the entire plant.
So what to do if you don't want to plant your tomato in the ground? I've used Gardener's Supplies self-watering containers for my tomatoes for more than 10 years. Why do I like them? They are sturdy, like 10 years old, easy to plant, use less water, provide tomatoes with what they like, dry tops and wet roots, and yield abundant heirloom tomatoes every season I have been in Flagstaff. I've won numerous blue ribbons for those tomatoes at the County Fair, one year getting best of show for my Green Zebra. The proof's in the pudding.
The other advantage to these containers is that they now come with fitted cages to contain plants as they grow. The cages can be easily covered with a floating row cover, like Reemay, so that you can plant them early while protecting them from frost. The Reemay also protects the plants from hail and allows the sun through.
There are other brands that friends have used with success such as Earth Box. They have the same self-watering features but are a little smaller. I prefer the ones the larger. I have planted as many as 3 plants in a box, 2 are better. Another device recommended by many friends is a 5-gallon plastic container with holes for drainage. You can buy large paint cans, drill some holes and paint them black to absorb heat or save the black, five-gallon containers from commercial nurseries. This inexpensive choice works well but requires more water, and for me it provided a smaller productive crop.
If you want to look at the difference between a large pot and a hanging basket, check out this article on the Master Gardener blog: http://blog.ltc.arizona.edu/highelevationgardening/. My photos show 3 of the same Siberian heirlooms all planted at the same time, two planted in a wine barrel and one in a hanging pot. They received equal watering and the same sun exposure. The plants in the barrel by the middle of August have half-dollar sized tomatoes, the hanging pot just a few flowers.
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Loni Shapiro is a Master Gardener volunteer. Dana Prom Smith, a Master Gardener volunteer, is coordinating editor for the Master Gardener Column. He can be contacted at stpauls@npgcable.com. For more information about the Master Gardener Program, call Hattie Braun, Coordinator of the Master Gardener Program, at 774-1868 ext.17 or visit our Web Site: highelevationgardening.arizona.edu.
Posted by maxmaddy at 7:20 PM
Northern Arizona Sustainability Workshops at CCC
Here is another great opportunity for Master Gardeners to volunteer for the NAZ Sustainable Living Workshops at October 24 at CCC. Please see attached poster. Contact volunteers@nazsla.org if you are interested.
Hattie Braun
Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Coconino County Cooperative Extension
2304 N. 3rd St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86004
Phone: 928-774-1868 x 17
FAX: 928-774-1860
Posted by maxmaddy at 6:18 AM
Planting the Future Conference in Tucson
Just in case one conference this fall is not enough for Master Gardeners, United Seed Savers amd the Tucson Herbalist Collective are hosting the 'Planting the Future' Conference October 17 at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson.
For more information go to: http://unitedplantsavers.org/
Hattie Braun
Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Coconino County Cooperative Extension
2304 N. 3rd St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86004
Phone: 928-774-1868 x 17
FAX: 928-774-1860
Posted by maxmaddy at 5:54 AM