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9:00am to 4:30pm

Snow date of Sunday, March 3 $50 If registered before February 4 $60 If registered after February 4

Register online at

www.arboretumfriends.org

or call 973.326.7603

In the past five years, interest in and

demand for Community Gardens has

exploded. For the third year in a row,

The Friends of The Frelinghuysen

Arboretum and Rutgers Cooperative

Extension are partnering to bring you an

impressive list of topics taught by speakers

who are all experts in their fields.

Whether you’re an experienced or new

community gardener, a Community Garden

Manager, Coordinator, or an Activist trying

to get a Community Garden started, you

will want to attend this program.

morris county park commission

at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum

353 East Hanover Avenue Morris Township, NJ 07962

Artwork courtesy of Joe Wirtheim

www.victorygardenoftomorrow.com

2013 Community Garden Conference

R E G I S T R A T I O N

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9:00am-9:30am Registration and coffee 9:30am- 9:45am Welcome Address 9:45am-10:45am Keynote Address 11:00am-Noon Breakout Session A (Choose 1) Beekeeping Best Management Practices Seed Saving Noon-12:45 Lunch Vegan Vegetarian Meat

(provided through the generosity of Sodexo) 12:45am-1:45pm Breakout Session B (Choose 1) Beekeeping Best Management Practices Seed Saving

2:00pm–3:00pm Breakout Session C (Choose 1) Finding Funding Growing Small Fruits Common Insect Pests in the Vegetable Garden

3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee and cookies

3:30pm-4:30pm Breakout Session D (Choose 1) Finding Funding Growing Small Fruits Common Insect Pests in the Vegetable Garden

You must choose your Breakouts Sessions and Lunch option.

Make check payable to FRIENDS Mail to:

The Friends of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum PO Box 1295

Morristown, NJ 07962-1295

Welcome Address

Pete Nitzsche, County Agricultural Agent

Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Morris County

Lesley Parness, Superintendent, Horticultural Education,

Morris County Park Commission

Keynote Address

Dr. Joan Dye Gussow

Dr. Gussow, dubbed by the New York Times as the

“matriarch of the local food movement”, is a serious food

producer, writer, and Professor Emerita at Columbia

University, where she was the former chair of the Nutrition

Education Program, and where she still teaches her course

on nutritional ecology every fall.

She is the author of several books including: The Feeding

Web; The Nutrition Debate; Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and

Agriculture; This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban

Homesteader; and Growing Older . A long time organic mini-

farmer, Gussow now lives writes, and grows all her own

organic produce on the west bank of the Hudson River.

Breakout Sessions Growing Small Fruits

Learn how to choose, plant and maintain a variety of small

fruits suitable for a community garden. Speaker Pete

Nitzsche is County Agricultural Agent with Rutgers

Cooperative Extension of Morris County. Pete is a frequent

lecturer on growing small fruits and vegetables in the home

garden at Master Gardener classes, and at the Rutgers

Home Gardeners School.

Beekeeping at Community Gardens

Jan Zientek, Essex County Extension Department Head and

Director of Rutgers Urban Gardening Program, shares his

beekeeping experience at community gardens. Jan has

been keeping bees for many years, manages over 30

colonies and has helped many community gardens across

the state set up and establish hives. He’ll talk about bee

biology, colony management and how to keep them at

community gardens.

Common Insect Pests in the Vegetable Garden

Sabrina Tirpak could talk about insects all day! She is the

Principle Lab Technician at Rutgers Plant Diagnostic Lab and

the person to whom you send your insect and disease

samples to for identification. Learn about the most

common vegetable insects and, most importantly, how to

identify and control them organically.

Best Management Practices for Community Gardens

Luke Drake has been interviewing community gardeners all

across NJ for almost 2 years as part of his doctoral research.

Needless to say, he has learned a lot about what makes a

community garden successful. Learn what has worked for

others, what hasn’t, and what other community gardens are

doing to resolve some of the common issues we all face.

This session is intended for garden managers and/or

coordinators.

Seed Saving Techniques

Dr. Larry Robertson of the Plant Genetics Resource Unit in

Geneva NY is giving us a lesson on seed production and

regeneration. He’ll talk about plant reproduction and

genetics and demonstrate seed harvesting, cleaning and

drying. He’ll also cover seed storage and germination

testing. Dr. Robertson’s credentials are jaw dropping and is

presenting at the conference as part of the Northern

Organic Vegetable Improvement Collaborative outreach

program.

Finding Funding - A Development Primer

Lesley Parness, Superintendent of Horticultural Education

for the Morris County Park Commission, leads a discussion

of fund raising strategies including grants, sponsorships and

donations. Lesley has been involved in development at

botanic gardens for the past 25 years. Whether you are from

a loosely organized group, a 510 (c) 3 or a government

agency, there are steps you should take to prepare for fund

raising for your garden. This talk is designed for beginners

and will include many resources.

Register online at

www.arboretumfriends.org

or call 973.326.7603