We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for our June 2024 Meeting
Program: Gardening from Scratch
Tuesday, June 11, at 11:30 a.m.
In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]
Garden Club of Weaverville member Barb Woolmington will share her experience in transitioning her Weaverville home’s outdoor space from a raw construction zone in 2020 to the colorful and pollinator-friendly garden beds she tends now, just four years later. Included in her slideshow presentation are details on how she and her husband seeded a wildflower meadow along the back slope of the house, incorporated a wetlands pond for wildlife, added hardscape in the form of rock paths and terraces, and planted pollinator natives throughout.
The Garden Club of Weaverville is a co-ed, non-profit organization open to everyone. For more information on what we do, becoming a member, or supporting the club,visit our website.
We will not host a public meeting in May. But we hope that you check back soon for info on our June 2024 meeting.
Happy spring gardening!
The Garden Club of Weaverville is a co-ed, non-profit organization open to everyone. For more information on what we do, becoming a member, or supporting the club,visit our website.
We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for our April 2024 Meeting
Program: Understanding and Nurturing Healthy Soil
Tuesday, April 9, at 11:30 a.m.
In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]
Our April program will take us into the underground garden world and will focus on how healthy soil promotes healthy plants. Lorri Bura will cover the principles of soil consistency and potency, and she will emphasize how plants take up nutrients and how to effectively fertilize them.
Lorri (aka Herb Mamma) is the steward of Green Heart Gardens where she grows certified organic medicinal herbs in the field and in the woods. She has been growing herbs and making medicines for over 30 years, and Herbmamma is the brand for the medicines she makes from her herb crops. Lorri is the current president of the NC Herb Association, and she teaches classes on making herbal remedies and how to grow and process herbs from the woods and the field.
The Garden Club of Weaverville is a co-ed, non-profit organization open to everyone. For more information on what we do, becoming a member, or supporting the club,visit our website.
We hope you will join
the Garden Club of Weaverville
for Our March 2024 Meeting
Program: Protecting and Preserving the Blue Ridge Parkway
Tuesday, March 12, at 11:30 a.m.
In the Weaverville Community Center
[60 Lakeshore Drive, Albert Weaver Room]
Carolyn Ward, CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation (https://www.brpfoundation.org), will share information about the foundation’s work to help ensure the Blue Ridge Parkway is protected now and into the future. The presentation will focus on the abundant biodiversity of plants found along the parkway corridor and the role community members can play in helping to protect one of the most biodiverse places in the temperate world.
Carolyn’s distinguished career spans three decades, from field interpreter at Hungry Mother State Park to CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. She was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwestern Virginia, she graduated from Emory and Henry College, and she received her master’s degree and doctorate in forestry from Virginia Tech. She is a decorated professor, an award-winning researcher, and an author whose life’s work has been dedicated to building bridges and making connections.
The Garden Club of Weaverville is a co-ed, non-profit organization open to everyone. For more information on what we do, becoming a member, or supporting the club,visit our website.
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