Members of the Mid-Maine Permaculture Council recently shared concepts and applications of permaculture with members of the Central Maine Garden Club; approximately 30 members attended. Bonnie Sammons, a former teacher, grant writer, and leader of the Mid-Maine Change Lobby, opened the session. She was accompanied by Barbara Russell, an environmentalist from central Maine, according to […]
The Central Maine Garden Club hosted a talk by Dr. Peter Garrett about climate change March 19 at Redington Museum in Waterville. Garrett works with the Citizens Climate Lobby and the Greenhouse Gas Removal Action Team to create solutions to reduce emissions. The real challenge is to remove carbon dioxide from both land and water. […]
The approximately 35 members of the Central Maine Garden Club recently saw a slideshow narrated by Doug Casentino on Colby College’s gardens. Only three grounds crew members and one supervisor, Casentino, maintain the numerous flower beds, which “takes a lot of time, but not a lot of people,” Casentino said, according to a news release […]
The Central Maine Garden Club plans to host a garden tour from 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, July 18 in the Redington Museum Garden, 62 Silver St. in Waterville. The rain date is Wednesday, July 19. Nestled in the Redington Museum’s yard sits the native garden, a return to the past in hopes in saving the future. […]
About 50 garden club enthusiasts recently attended a Central Maine Garden Club presentation about the vast amount of bees that are in the United States and in Maine. The U.S. bees species number about 4,000 and Maine has more than 270 species representing 12 families, according to a news release from Donna Sawyer with the […]