September 2020 This month’s meeting via Zoom featured a presentation by the owners of Dripping Springs Gardens, a commercial organic growing operation since 1984, located south of Berryville in the Metalton/Dry Fork Creek area. While we could not travel to the site due to Covid-19, Mark Cain and Michael Crane provided us with a virtual […]
Our speaker this month was Sherry Sanders, White County Agriculture Extension Agent. The topic was worm composting for the home gardener. She first provided an overview of the basics on composting: what materials can and can’t be composted, what goes on inside a compost pile, managing a pile and the benefits of composting to the
We had a Zoom meeting this month. Thank you Covid-19. Nahshon Bishop, Lincoln University-Missouri Cooperative Extension Specialist from Cassville, presented an informative program on Extending your Garden Growing Season. He shared details on successful fall succession planting and online tools to help gardeners plan what and when to plant. We also learned a bit about
We met again this month during the Covid-19 pandemic, remotely via Zoom. Our guest speaker was our former County Extension Agent: Randy Forst. The topic of his presentation was one that he has a great passion for, hydrangeas. He shared a wide range of information on this garden favorite, entitled “Harmonious Hydrangeas.” The five general
February 2020 Eric Fuselier, acting president of the Ozark Chapter of Wild Ones, was our guest speaker. For more than a decade, he has studied the practical uses of native plants found growing wild in the Ozarks. While Eric’s passion for native plants began as an avid hiker and backpacker, he was eventually able to
