Please contact Katie Dott if you have any questions about this great volunteer opportunity! Dear HRT Volunteers: We have an exciting Planting Day planned for November 14 and we need all the able-bodied volunteers we can muster. So please come and bring all your friends and relatives who are willing to help. The task is to plant trees, shrubs and other plants in the areas we have cleared along the Orange Trail. We have put a lot of work into removing multiflora rose, oriental bittersweet, porcelain berry and other invasives along the trail. What we have discovered is that the natural plant community that remains is quite impoverished. Many of the native plants have been crowded out or killed by the overgrowth of invasives over many years. We have purchased a variety of native plants to repopulate the area and on November 14 we will be planting them. These include oaks, maples, black gum, ferns, blackberries and many others. No special skills required! Wear your work clothes. We will have tools and refreshments. November 14, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Assemble at Sherwood House. See you then! Bill Breakey Habitat Restoration Team Leader TYPIST(S) NEEDED for Grow It Eat It cookbook. We need help entering recipes into cookbook database. It's not hard, but you will need to be able to download the cookbook data entry software from the Internet. Linda can show you how to use it in just a few minutes. Great way to earn some MG hours from home. Contact Linda Myers, lmyers001@verizon.net, 410-667-6736.
INVASIVE PLANT WORK DAYS 2009 Please Mark Your Calendars For All These Dates! PLEASE NOTE DUE TO THE FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL ON SAT. OCT. 10 & SUN. OCT. 11, WE WILL BE MEETING ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF OCTOBER. Please come and visit us at the Festival! Saturday, October 3 at 9 AM until 11 AM Saturday, November 14 at 9 AM until 11 AM Saturday, December 12 at 9 AM until 11 AM We will be meeting at the Sherwood House Parking Area The work day will be cancelled if it rains heavily, BUT if the rain forces cancellation, the rain date is always the next day! For questions or to RSVP, please call Bill Breakey at (410) - 321-1002, or E-mail at breakeys@comcast.net Snacks, drinks and tools will be provided, but if you can, bring your own gloves and water. Thanks in advance for all of your help! ------- Susan Dorsey Administrative Assistant Cromwell Valley Park 2002 Cromwell Bridge Road Baltimore, MD 21234 The Perry Hall Improvement Association will plant 47 Native trees on October 3 starting at 9AM. The MG volunteers will provide guidance on proper planting depth and making sure the holes are the correct size. Please go to the Forum for the contact information - it is listed under General Discussions. The Master Gardeners will be hosting a booth at the Marshy Point Fall Festival on October 17 from 10AM - 4PM. Please contact Debby H for more information. It will be a great opportunity to see the new Butterfly Garden that BCMGs installed this year! Our August meeting will be held at the Cockeysville Library at 6:30 PM on August 13. Topics on the agenda: Vote on By-Law change regarding meeting attendance. Training and Development: The Training and Development Committee will be doing a "walk-through/flight check" in preparation for the upcoming 2009 Initial Training Class. We will be soliciting volunteers to participate in the Orientation Day Open Forum, to act as hosts at the various classes, and to contribute to the Orientation Day Breakfast Bar. We would very much appreciate it if everyone could make a concerted effort to attend as there are a great many details that we wish to share with the general membership. Volunteer Log Instructions with Links 07/30/2009
The document with information about how to record your volunteer and educational hours is located here: http://bcmastergardeners.weebly.com/forum.html It is also located in the Forum under Questions and Answers/FAQ. Our day for the Master Gardener Booth at the MD State Fair in Timonium will be Wednesday September 2. Please contact nlewis1401@aol.com if you are interested in working that event. Hours of the event are not available at this time but please let me know what your first and second choices would be for 3 hour time slots - probably similar to what we did for the MD Home Show. Volunteers will be needed to staff the booth that Baltimore County Master Gardeners will have at Towson Garden Days on April 23. Volunteers will be needed from 9:30 until 3:30. We will have info about recruitment, Grow it, Eat it, and "Ask a Master Gardener?" and other topics. Volunteer for an hour and enjoy the rest of the day at Towson Garden Days! BEST OF ALL! Towson Gardens Day will have a garden tour of the Courthouse Garden by Wolfgang Oehme, FASLA -Landscape Architect, The German American Landscape Architect Who Revolutionized American Garden Design. Also Book Author, The Bold Romantic Garden, and Designer of American Garden at the National Arboretum. There will also be for sale at the event all types of new and unusual perennials, shrubs and annuals at great sale prices. Please contact Katie Dott at k_dott@yahoo.com Fifth District Elementary School which is at the corner of Mt. Carmel Road and Falls Road has a program to help the pupils understand nature and conservation. Fifth District Elementary is a certified Green School. There are after school opportunities and during their spring garden clean up days. The school has a Butterfly Garden, a Rain Garden, a Meadow and a Woodland area. |