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Water, Water Everywhere!
Saturday,
April 19, 2008
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Free Admission
Special
thanks to our sponsors:
Randi's Green Thumb
and Cline Close Dyer PLC
 Especially
for Kids:
- Puppet
show – Visit with animals at their river home as
they explain the importance of clean water for
them and YOU.
- Visit
Water World
where you will see the creatures that live in
pond water.
- Create
a fish puppet
- Make
your own sprinkling can by reusing a plastic jug
- Root
your own plant in water
What
else is “growing on?”
- Area
Master Gardeners answer your gardening questions
and present earth-friendly gardening hints.
- Water
Energy – Learn how water can be used for
energy by using a hydro-cell. It can even power a
car!–
Bill Ferris
, Master Gardener.
- Fungi
Gardening – Karen Breternitz, CNC
Naturalist, returns with more fungi for you to
grow at home.
-
Bay City
Hampton
School’s
Rain
Garden: Students Making a Difference – Learn from the students how
they developed rain gardens in their school yard.
- Wild
Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscaping –
Learn the benefits of native plant landscaping.
- Valley
Herb Society – All about herbs.
- Floyd
Elementary 2nd Grade Students will have
their dish gardens on display.
- Look
for other presenters on hydroponics and keeping
our waters clean.
Guest
Speakers
Janet
Macunovich
11:00 am
– Ecological
Gardening: A look at the Impact of Gardening on the
Environment
1:30
pm
– The
Rain
Garden,
an Earth-Friendly
Garden
Design
Randi
Paquet
12:30 pm
– Earth-Friendly
Container Gardening
Randi
(Randi’s Green Thumb) will show you ways to reuse
ordinary household items as beautiful and fun
containers for your plants.
Master
Gardener volunteers have the opportunity to earn 3
hours, one hour for each of the presentations.
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