as the Irrigation Expo in Las Vegas, and the Landscape Expos in Long Beach and Sacramento, California. Watch the GWA sites, this space, or contact gardeningwithsoule @ hotmail. com for more information.
• • • In late August, Toronto, Canada blogger Tony Spencer( aka“ The New Perennialist)” will be meeting up with friends, Piet Oudolf and plantsman Roy Diblik in Chicago to sit in on Piet’ s annual evaluation of the renowned Lurie Gardens at Millennium Park. Later in September( date TBD), Tony is slated to appear on the Native Plant Podcast live from Virginia, talking with John C. Magee and friends about naturalistic planting design from a new perennial perspective.
GWA Region V director Bill Adams talks tomatoes— from heirlooms to green when ripe varieties, blue tomatoes, modern hybrids— and other gardening topics on Central Texas Gardener( KLRU-TV / PBS). Watch online anytime at video. klru. tv / local / or pbs. org / show / central-texas-gardener /
Author Sharon Lovejoy has joined the advisory board of the National Gardening Association. She will also be writing posts on gardening with children for NGA members and Kidsgardening. org.
• • • Purdue University Extension Educator Kris Medic will help to lead a delegation of Indiana farmers and extension educators visiting diversified farms and horticultural businesses in Maine and Vermont for a week in September. Funded by a USDA SARE grant, the trip will help selected Indiana farmers and extension educators understand and adopt sustainable practices as they apply to small operations. On the itinerary are Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine; Johnny’ s Selected Seeds in Winslow, Maine and Cate Farm in Plainfield, Vermont. thefarmersgarden. com Peggy’ s article on home canning and preserving was published in the July / August issue of Virginia Gardener magazine. Peggy also redesigned her business card to include the GWA logo on the backside to encourage others to become GWA members.
• • • Jacqueline Soule, a member of the GWA Outreach Task Force, is working to find ways for the green industry and garden writers to help each other thrive in today’ s changing economy. While the main focus of the task force has been green industry shows, such as Farwest and Cultivate, Jacqueline is also working with the allied trades to get garden writers invited to such events
• • • The September issue of Oklahoma Gardener magazine profiles Russell Studebaker of Tulsa, for his impact on the gardening community. Russell served 31 years as senior horticulturist for the City of Tulsa Park Department and for more than 33 years, he wrote a gardening column for the Tulsa World. He is a book author, charter writer for Oklahoma Gardener magazine, garden lecturer and a freelance garden writer with a lifetime of sharing his love of plants and nature, knowledge and horticultural skills with others.
• • • In Seattle, Washington, John A. Wott was named the Volunteer of the Year 2016 by Mature Friends, a retirement organization. This award recognized his 11 years of service, leading hundreds of private garden tours and his participation in a variety of board offices and on committees.
• • • Eva Monheim has been promoted to assistant professor of instruction at Temple University Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture. A new graduate course in Northeast Woodland Ecosystems is scheduled for the fall semester. Eva has also joined the Tree Advisory team for the University of Pennsylvania.
• • • Pat Munts, Region VI regional director is working on a program to help military veterans explore becoming farmers through the Vets on the Farm Project of the Spokane Conservation District. As a weekly columnist for the Spokesman Review, she has focused much of her writing this year on creating pollinator and beneficial insect habitat in home gardens.
• • • Peggy Riccio, owner of pegplant. com has a guest post about peas on Maureen Farmer’ s
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