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Design & Beyond 2015
Design & Beyond 2015 is sold out! We hope you will be able to join us in 2016!
The Summit County Master Gardeners cordially invite you to attend DESIGN & BEYOND 2015. All who enjoy gardening are welcome to attend this annual symposium featuring renowned gardening experts.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
8:30 am - 3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:00 am)
Continental breakfast, lunch and seminar materials included in the $40 fee ($45 after January 5th, if space is available).
5 MG CE's
Raffle, Door Prizes, Books sales and signing by authors
This Year's Presenters are:
Rick Darke - A broadly knowledgeable field ecologist and horticulturist, Rick Darke's professional experience includes 20 years as Longwood Gardens' Curator of Plants, during which he studied and photographed a great array of world ecologies including those of South Africa, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Canary Islands, and northern Europe. His work is grounded in an observational ethic which blends art, ecology, and cultural geography in the design and stewardship of living landscapes. His projects include parks, post-industrial sites, transportation corridors, corporate and collegiate campuses, conservation developments and botanic gardens. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Gardens Illustrated, RHS The Garden, and elsewhere. Rick's books include The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest, The Wild Garden: Expanded Edition, and The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden, co-authored with friend and colleague Doug Tallamy. For further information visit: www.rickdarke.com
Rick will be presenting two back to back programs on his new book, The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden.
Rick's first presentation will be The Living Landscape: Looking at the Layers. The richness of life in any landscape is linked to the richness of its layers, and this is true for both people and wildlife. Rick will have an illustrated discussion of the living layers in local and regional landscapes, both as they naturally occur and as they are often modified by human culture. This exploration will provide a basis for understanding the essential characteristics of healthy layers and how they can be conserved and enhanced in home gardens and shared landscapes.
Rick's second presentation will be Designing and Maintaining The Living Landscape. Rick will illustrate and discuss how an understanding of living layers and relational biodiversity can be put to practical use in the making and maintenance of residential gardens and community landscapes. Strategies for employing “organic architecture” in creating beautiful, conserving, highly functional layers will be presented in detail.
Heather Holm – Author of the recently released book Pollinators of Native Plants, Heather Holm is the owner of a Minnesota-based landscape design and consulting business specializing in native landscapes. She is a passionate advocate for the use of native plants to attract and support pollinators, beneficial insects, and wildlife in home landscapes, organic farms, and restored landscapes. Heather is a graduate of the University of Guelph in Canada, is a landscape designer and consultant specializing in native plant landscapes and restorations. Heather is the author of the blog Restoring the Landscape with Native Plants and is a monthly contributor to the national team blog Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. Her website is: www.pollinatorsnativeplants.com
Heather's presentation will be The Pollination of Native Plants. This presentation is a fascinating journey showcasing the development of different flower types and the presentation of floral resources to pollinators. Exploring the types of insect pollinators, their foraging behavior, and the floral features that attract pollinators, Heather will provide many specific examples of how native plants are pollinated and what pollinator is most effective and why.
Denise Ellsworth – is the Program Director, Honeybee and Native Pollinator Education Ohio State Department of Entomology. She directs the honey bee and native pollinator education program through the Ohio State University Department of Entomology on the Wooster campus. In this outreach position, Denise supports and teaches beekeepers, farmers, and gardeners through a variety of workshops, webinars, written materials and electronic resources. She is also the past OSU Extension Educator for 17 years, and has trained many of the Summit County Master Gardeners during that period. She has been an educator in many areas of entomology and horticulture, including plant pests, integrated pest management, plant identification, and botany. Her Areas of Emphasis include Bee health and integrated pest management, Pollinator identification, conservation and habitat enhancement, Plant and insect phenology. She was also a Garden Writer, for the Akron Beacon Journal for 2 decades.
Denise will discuss the "Status of Pollinators in Ohio” How are honey bees, native bees and other pollinators faring in Ohio? This session will focus on threats to Ohio’s pollinators and how gardeners can make a difference.
Mark Trapp and Emily Stefanak – Trapp Family Farm Mark Trapp and girlfriend, Emily Stefanak, are greenhorn farmers trying to reconstitute a 19th century farmstead on federal land in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Trapp, raised in North Olmsted, has an engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Stefanak, raised in Cleveland Heights, has a degree in zoology from Miami University and a degree in nursing from Cleveland State University. They have obtained a 60-year lease through a government program aimed at bringing back family farms in the valley, using organic and environmentally sustainable methods. The program is operated by the Countryside Conservancy, a nonprofit group that began resurrecting ruins of old farms on the federally protected lands 14 years ago. The Trapp-Stefanak house (the old Holland Farm) was built in 1855. The Trapp Family Farm is free of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, antibiotics, hormones and synthetic fertilizers, and to lessen air pollution, the plow is pulled by Doc and Dan, draft horses not a tractor.
Mark and Emily will present Farming the Trapp Family Way and discuss the farm from its beginnings to present, the farm guild and many of the innovative methods and techniques used throughout the farm to grow healthy plants and animals. Crop rotation, cover cropping, compost methods and more will be discussed.
NOTE: Early registration with a fee of $40.00 through January 5th, 2015. Late registrations will be accepted until January 10, 2015 (if space is available) with a fee of $45.00. Registrations are transferable.
No refunds after December 31, 2014.
