For online registration, go to: FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GARDEN FEVER OR THE CARVER-SCOTT EXTENSION MASTER GARDENER PROGRAM: Website: www.carverscottmastergardeners.org www.carverscottmastergardeners.org GARDEN FEVER 2015 REGISTRATION 101 Name ______________________________________ 5 Address ____________________________________ 5 Victoria State/ZIP ___________________________________ Phone (day) _________________________________ A Renewed View – Fresh Practices & Purpose for You and Your Garden Phone: 952-466-5300 Email: [email protected] For mail-in registration, complete this form and enclose a check. City _______________________________________ Garden Fever 2015 Chanhassen Oak Ridge Conference Center N 21 2 41 Email ______________________________________ 101 61 Please select your session topic choices. Indicate your first and second choice for each session. We will do our best to give everyone their first choice. Session 1 First Choice Second Choice _____ _____ Session 2 First Choice Second Choice Cost: _____ _____ $42 by March 7 (mail-in or online) $47 March 8-14 (online only, or walk-in) Price includes morning refreshments and fabulous buffet lunch. Attendance is limited. Mail in registration deadline is March 7. One person per registration form. Make checks payable to: Carver-Scott Master Gardeners Mail registration form and payment to: U of M Extension Carver County Attn: Garden Fever Registration 11360 Hwy 212 West, Suite 4 Cologne, MN 5 5322 Chaska 61 Shakopee 21 2 41 Carver 101 Minnesota River 16 9 16 9 Oak Ridge Hotel & Conference Center 1 Oakridge Dr. Chaska, MN 55318 (952) 368-3100 Who are the Master Gardeners? Master Gardeners are the horticulture outreach arm of University of Minnesota Extension. They are volunteers trained to assist people and their communities through research based gardening information and activities. Carver and Scott Counties are served by approximately 110 active Extension Master Gardeners. © 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. University of Minnesota Extension is an equal opportunity educator and employer. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, this publication/material is available in alternative formats upon request. Direct requests to 612-624-0772 or [email protected]. Printed on recycled and recyclable paper with at least 10 percent postconsumer waste material. Saturday, March 14 8:30 AM- 3:00 PM Oak Ridge Hotel & Conference Center Chaska, MN SPONSORED BY CARVER-SCOTT EXTENSION MASTER GARDENERS The Carver-Scott Extension Master Gardeners will present a delightful day filled with speakers and sessions filled with fresh practices and purpose for you and your garden. This day promises something for everyone. You’ll also enjoy a delicious buffet lunch, door prizes, silent auction items, and garden-related products sold by local vendors. 8:00 AM Registration 8:30 AM Welcome 9:00 AM Morning Keynote Speaker: Dawn Pape Dawn Pape Make Your Garden Work for You Dawn will present an engaging and humorous talk inspiring gardeners of all levels to implement easy, eco-friendly practices and plans that help reflect a unique purpose for the gardener and their landscape. 10:30 AM Session 1 Class A Micro-Batch Canning & Preserving Anna Dvorak, local nutrition and wellness consultant, will demonstrate methods to maximize time to help you savor the bounty of small batch and stop sweating the need for a bushel. Class B Beyond Basil: Specialty Herbs for the Garden Theresa Mieseler, owner of Shady Acres Herb Farm in Chaska, MN, will discuss best practices for growing, preserving and using a variety of herbs in the Minnesota garden. Class C Help! Where Do I Begin? Maren Christopher knows that a bare landscape can feel overwhelming. It’s often tough to get that first spark of inspiration. Come learn how to break the process down into manageable steps that will take your landscape from bare to beautiful. 11:30 AM Lunch 12:30 PM Session 2 Class A Planning for a Longer Growing Season Most people can grow great veggies in July and August, but what about the rest of the season? Jackie Smith will show you ways to get started earlier in the spring and continue your gardening well into the fall. She’ll demonstrate different cultural methods and discuss various protective structures. Class B Healing Body, Healthy Practices & the Garden Sara Schmanski will talk about how to develop your garden as therapy, while implementing strategies for reducing injury and muscle strain while you garden. Class C Innovative Approaches to Square Foot & Vertical Gardening Bob Strawn & Julie Bischke show what’s new in space saving & container gardens: raised beds, square foot growing, vertical gardening, and soil amendments. 1:50 PM Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Kathy Zuzek A Look At New Shrubs: High Impact, Low Input Plant breeders are hard at work creating new shrubs for your landscapes. A lot has changed in the world of hydrangeas, shrub roses, ninebarks, bush honeysuckles, potentillas, and other shrub groups. During this presentation, Kathy will give us a glimpse at some of these breeders' efforts to create beautiful and high-impact shrubs for your landscapes. Our Speakers: Dawn Pape Dawn Pape is a local author and self-proclaimed “lawn chair gardener”. She has a Masters in Environmental Education, founded the Blue Thumb-Planting for Clean Water program, and has written a gardening guide and two children’s books about pollinating insects. Her current mission is to promote eco-friendly, functional yards and her company proudly shares profits with community organizations. Kathy Zuzek Kathy is a University of Minnesota Extension Educator with expertise in trees and shrubs. Much of her work focuses on sustainable landscape practices and plant evaluation research to identify attractive low-care shrubs for the Upper Midwest. Prior to joining the Extension horticultural team, she worked as a plant breeder on the University of Minnesota’s woody ornamental research program that has provided northern gardeners with the ‘Lights’ series of azaleas, Garden Glow and Cardinal dogwoods, ‘Emerald Triumph’ viburnum, the Northern Accents roses, Summertime Amur maackia, and other shrub and tree cultivars. Anna Dvorak Anna is a certified Nutrition and Wellness consultant. She helps people on their own paths to healthy living through classes and coaching. She teaches organic cooking and skin care classes, and leads retreats and group cleanses for women based on mindful, balanced living. Theresa Mieseler Theresa and her husband, Jim, own Shady Acres Herb Farm in Chaska. They produce a large variety of herbs, wild flowers, fruits and vegetables using environmentally-sound practices. Shady Acres also offers a number of classes and events throughout the year at their shop and in their gardens. Carver-Scott Extension Master Gardeners: Maren Christopher, Jackie Smith, Sara Schmanski, Bob Strawn, and Julie Bischke