Speaker Series: Master Gardeners Presentation
When
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
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Who can attend
Limited capacity: Registration Closed
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Calling all green-thumb gardeners and even those who are just beginning. Let’s create your own rite of passage to celebrate spring. Whether you are ready to manage yard acreage or just a planter box or two, we have tips for you. The Carquinez Village Speaker Series will host Mo Moench, and his colleagues, Gene Eckenstam and Sheila Clyatt, master gardeners, at 10:30 am, Thursday, April 15.
This will be their 4th presentation with the Carquinez Village.
Solano County Master Gardeners have a mission to share information on home horticulture, pest management, and sustainable landscape practices to local residents. Her presentation will exchange tips and best practices for having your garden ideas take root and bloom.
The presentation, Spring In the Garden: Pruning and Planting,” will be offered through a free, public Zoom meeting. Attendees need to register on the Carquinez Village website. You will receive an email the day before the meeting that will allow you to enter the meeting.
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Or visit www.carquinezvillage.org and click on the EVENTS tab to register. Mo, Gene and Sheila all live in Benicia, and have been in the Master Gardening program for a number of years, which is where they met. Their passion has become the Benicia school gardens. They are currently working with Liberty High School, Benicia High School and Mary Farmer Elementary School. Gene dabbles with raising chickens, Sheila is a master seed starter, and Mo tries hard to keep up with those two. |
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Mo will discuss many ways to create beauty and respite in a variety of living situations. The Master Gardener program outreach emphasizes the importance of sustainable landscape practices in addressing multiple environmental concerns, including water and air quality, energy and soil conservation, invasive species, and waste management. Climate Zones, as defined by Sunset Magazine, represent one more factor in the magic that is gardening. Benicia and Vallejo’s climate is categorized as Sunset: Zone 17, which covers marine effects in Southern Oregon and Northern and Central California. The growing season ranges from late February to late November with mild, wet, almost frost-less winters and cool summers marked with fog or wind. Rain occurs in the other months outside of the growing season. A question and answer session will be held at the end of the presentation. The mission of the Carquinez Village is to help Benicia and Vallejo seniors to stay in their homes and to enrich their lives through connecting, supporting, and inspiring them. More information about the Carquinez Village is available at www.carquinezvillage.org or by calling 707-297-2472. |