Thank you to everyone who attended!
If you missed it, check out Forested's Website for more information.
Thank you to everyone who attended this presentation with Dr. Kelly Russo- Petrick, UDC's Program Specialist in Ecology and Master Naturalist Coordinator.
If you missed it, check out these resources:
Slideshow with links to resources
Thank you to everyone who attended this presentation with UDC's Director of the Center for Urban Agriculture and Garden Education with Dr. Che Axum.
If you missed it, check out these resources:
1. Recording of presentation: Watch Director of the Center for Urban Agriculture and Garden Education at UDC, Dr. Che Axum's presentation on how to adjust our growing practices given the changes in our climate that we are seeing every year.
2. UDC Fact Sheet on Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: Che mentioned this fact sheet in his presentation. Take a look to learn more about how climate change will affect our growing practices and for a list of crops/varieties that we expect to adapt well to climate changes.
Thank you to everyone who attended!
If you missed it, check out the recording here.
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned from UDC CAUSES' Che Axum. Unfortunately since this was an in person meeting at the farm, there isn't a recording of this meeting.
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned from UDC CAUSES' Caitlin Arlotta about her research with Hibiscus plants and the use of different ground cover mulches.
Here are some resources from this meeting:
UDC Hibiscus Published Research:
A review of the effectiveness of hibiscus for treatment of metabolic syndrome
UDC hibiscus factsheets:
Additional UDC Urban Agriculture Publications (Variety trials, urban growing systems, groundcovers)
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned from UDC CAUSES' Ariel Verbrugge about Soilless Systems and some tomato growing tips!
Here are some resources from this meeting:
A recording of the presentation.
CAUSES Eventbrite page: Check here to find and register for Ariel's future workshops.
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned from Dr. Trish about soil science for gardeners.
Here are some resources from this meeting:
A recording of the presentation.
The slideshow from the presentation
Soil Health and Cover Crops document
Soil Amendments and Components document
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned from MG Kathy Sykes all about Native Plants.
Here is a recording of the presentation.
Here is the slideshow from the presentation
Here is the native plant list that Kathy shared.
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned from UDC's Xavier Brown.
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned from UDC's Jacob Campbell and the hydroponics and outdoor growing at Kramer Middle School and Anacostia High School.
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned about Resource recovery at the Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned about the Land Instittute and their Regenerative Agriculture Research.
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned more about different DC Master Gardener committees and opportunities!
Thank you to everyone who attended and learned more about Ground Nesting Bees!
Find out more about their research here:
GNBee: website
iNaturalist: project
Instagram: projectGNBee
Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting and shared great ideas for building MG community!
Stay tuned for the slideshow!
Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting and shared great ideas for building MG community!
Here is a link to the slideshow that shows what we discussed.
Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting and shared great ideas for building MG community!
Here is a link to the slideshow that shows what we discussed.
Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting and shared great ideas for building MG community!
Here is a link to the slideshow that shows what we discussed.
Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting and shared great ideas for the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden!
Here is a link to the slideshow that shows what we discussed.
Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting!
Here is the slideshow from the meeting.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Master Gardener Monthly Meeting last week! Here are some notes and follow-up from the meeting
Q & A document: You all asked some great questions that we didn’t have time to address during the meeting. Check this document for some answers.
Videos: Check out some videos from the meeting to see what you missed.
Golden Volunteer video with Michele Bassler
Master Gardener Visioning conversation
Survey: As a follow-up to our visioning conversation, Master Gardeners filled out the survey here to share their thoughts about the potential for the Master Gardener program and how they would like to be involved. PLEASE add your thoughts and how you would like to be involved to this survey.