Our guest speaker at the February 27 members meeting will be Walter McGee and his topic will be “History of Vegetables – Asparagus to Zucchini”.
In keeping with the vegetable theme, February’s mini-show will be an arrangement of any number of your favourite vegetables.
Saturday, February 23, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 31 King Street, Picton.
Have some seedy fun! Help Move your community’s food future! Talk to Seedy People (about Seeds!) Secure your OWN Food security! Enjoy a friendly atmosphere! Buy Seeds. Swap Seeds. Donate Seeds! Demo’s, Discussions, and Advice from local experts! Raffles! Food! Garden Inspiration! Vegucation! Q & A’s on gardening and seed saving!
President Colleen Green opened the meeting by welcoming everybody and speaking briefly about society business and plans for events later in the year.
Colleen introduced January’s featured speaker – Kurt Crist – who gave an interesting ‘illustrated’ talk about bird seed and bird feeders with plenty of seed and feeder examples on view. His talk sparked some interesting questions and observations from the members.
The most unusual item Kurt presented was a concrete feeder from Germany – the yellow feeder at the end of the table in the picture below. The concrete feeder was the raffle prize for the meeting.
The Mini-show, organized by Gwen Reilly, was a good fit with the featured speaker’s presentation – ‘Any flower presentation featuring a winter bird’.
Mini-show entries were judged by the members at large. 1st place went to Mary Jenkins, 2nd place to Kim Katanik-Kuris, and 3rd place to Gwen Reilly.
The beautiful images posted for mini shows, garden shows, and our meetings are from photographs created by member Bert Jenkins.
