November 2017 Meeting Notes & Holiday Lunch

            November 18, 2017

·        Pines Tavern Lunch --- Colleen Fingal welcomed us into a festive tavern with a separate room for us. Lunch was well served and finished with Colleen’s selection of purchased, exquisitely decorated cakes for dessert. The white elephant gift exchange table was ladened with gaily wrapped items for selection after gift exchange leader Helen Dean’s instructions. Laughter followed all of the choices especially the brisk trading of treasures.

·        Thank you --- Claudia Hickly thanked Colleen for the lunch arrangements and Helen for the gift exchange. She wished everyone Happy Holidays and looked forward to seeing us in January 2018.

·        Meeting January 23, “Winter Sowing,” a hands-on activity to get a head start on some of our seeds, will be led by Janine Zink. Ideally members should bring: 3 or 4 gallon milk jugs and/or large rectangular clear plastic lettuce/salad containers (the ones you buy your spring mix in and typically throw away), gloves, if you like, and a variety of seeds of your choosing (lettuce, tomatoes and other slower-growing vegetables work well as do perennial flower seeds). Janine will provide the potting soil, and help us add "ventilation" holes in our containers.

Calendar:

·        January 23, 2018 –  “Winter Sowing," by Janine Zink (see above)

·        February 27–  “Wetlands” by Dianne Machesney. What makes a wetland and what are bogs, fens, marshes, and swamps? What plants/flowers grow in those ecosystems?

·        March 27– LAGC meeting.

·        May 19 – LAGC Plant Sale.