2022Programs

2022
January 10, 2022
Steve Mayer: “What’s new in Vegetables and Flowers for 2022”
June 13, 2022 Zoom MG Member Meeting with Speaker Presentation

February 14, 2022
Carey Grable: “Commercial Growing Through the Year: Behind the Scenes of Greenhouse Production”
February 14, 2022 Zoom MG Member Meeting with Speaker Presentation

March 14, 2022
Ben Miller, President, Mud Creek Conservancy: “Mud Creek Conservancy, the Mud Creek Valley and Sargent Road Nature Park”
March 14, 2022 Zoom MG Member Meeting with Speaker Presentation

April 11, 2022
Austin Pearson, County Extension Director/Area 2 Fellow/ANR Extension Educator, Purdue Extension-Tipton County; “Climate Change; what to expect, and how to prepare our gardens”
April 11, 2022 Zoom MG Member Meeting with Speaker Presentation

April 21, 2022 “Bonus program”
Tour of Newfields’ Spring Blooms. Tour will begin at 5 o’clock with a brief talk by Chad Franer, chief horticulturalist at Newfields, followed by a walk around the grounds accompanied by garden guides.

May 9, 2022
Plant/Bake Sale and Auction, Holliday Park
Details 
NO Regular Meeting, the Plant Sale will take its place

June 13, 2022
Jeremy Kranowitz, President and CEO, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful: “Keep Indianapolis Beautiful”
June 13, 2022 Zoom MG Member Meeting with Speaker Presentation

July 9, 2022 Notice: This is a Saturday
Tour of members’ gardens.  No meeting on July 11th, these Garden Tours will take its place.

SATURDAY, July 9, rather than the usual Monday schedule.  We will visit the gardens of Sue Arnold (Big Sue), Shirley Fry and Sally and Greg Micheel.  A mail chimp will be sent out giving addresses, details and directions, but please save Saturday morning for this special program.

August 8, 2022
No program this month to allow you to volunteer at the Indiana State Fair; Demo garden, Tomato Juice Stand, and Greenhouse. Please volunteer.

September 12, 2022
Evening Program

Location: Riviera Club 5640 N Illinois St, Indianapolis, IN 46208
Michael Homoya, a distinguished Botanist/Plant Ecologist with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for 37 years until his retirement in 2019.  He is the author of numerous scientific papers, articles and books.
Title of talk “Shifting Baselines:  Indiana’s Natural Landscape of 1816 and Today”

October 10, 2022
Program on Eagle Creek at 50 years.  Brittany Davis Swinford, Senior Park Manager at Eagle Creek Park. 
October 10, 2022 Zoom MG Member Meeting with Speaker Presentation

November 14, 2022
Amanda Smith: “ Wildlife in the Garden”
November 14, 2022 Zoom MG Member Meeting with Speaker Presentation

December 12, 2022
Bill McKnight, aka “the mad botanist”, with a special Christmas presentation