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A Renewed View – Fresh Practices &
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$42 by March 7 (mail-in or online)
$47 March 8-14 (online only, or walk-in)
Price includes morning refreshments and fabulous
buffet lunch.
Attendance is limited. Mail in registration deadline
is March 7. One person per registration form.
Make checks payable to:
Carver-Scott Master Gardeners
Mail registration form and payment to:
U of M Extension Carver County
Attn: Garden Fever Registration
11360 Hwy 212 West, Suite 4
Cologne, MN 5 5322
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Oak Ridge Hotel & Conference Center
1 Oakridge Dr.
Chaska, MN 55318
(952) 368-3100
Who are the Master Gardeners?
Master Gardeners are the horticulture
outreach arm of University of Minnesota
Extension. They are volunteers trained to
assist people and their communities through
research based gardening information and
activities. Carver and Scott Counties are
served by approximately 110 active
Extension Master Gardeners.
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Saturday, March 14
8:30 AM- 3:00 PM
Oak Ridge Hotel & Conference Center
Chaska, MN
SPONSORED BY CARVER-SCOTT EXTENSION MASTER GARDENERS
The Carver-Scott Extension Master Gardeners will present a delightful day filled with speakers and sessions filled with fresh practices and purpose for you and your garden. This day
promises something for everyone. You’ll also enjoy a delicious buffet lunch, door prizes, silent auction items, and garden-related products sold by local vendors.
8:00 AM
Registration
8:30 AM
Welcome
9:00 AM
Morning Keynote Speaker:
Dawn Pape
Dawn Pape
Make Your Garden Work for You
Dawn will present an engaging and
humorous talk inspiring gardeners of all
levels to implement easy, eco-friendly
practices and plans that help reflect a
unique purpose for the gardener and their
landscape.
10:30 AM
Session 1
Class A
Micro-Batch Canning & Preserving
Anna Dvorak, local nutrition and wellness
consultant, will demonstrate methods to
maximize time to help you savor the bounty
of small batch and stop sweating the need
for a bushel.
Class B
Beyond Basil: Specialty Herbs for the
Garden
Theresa Mieseler, owner of Shady Acres
Herb Farm in Chaska, MN, will discuss best
practices for growing, preserving and using
a variety of herbs in the Minnesota garden.
Class C
Help! Where Do I Begin?
Maren Christopher knows that a bare
landscape can feel overwhelming. It’s often
tough to get that first spark of inspiration.
Come learn how to break the process down
into manageable steps that will take your
landscape from bare to beautiful.
11:30 AM
Lunch
12:30 PM
Session 2
Class A
Planning for a Longer Growing Season
Most people can grow great veggies in July
and August, but what about the rest of the
season? Jackie Smith will show you ways to
get started earlier in the spring and continue
your gardening well into the fall. She’ll
demonstrate different cultural methods and
discuss various protective structures.
Class B
Healing Body, Healthy Practices & the
Garden
Sara Schmanski will talk about how to
develop your garden as therapy, while
implementing strategies for reducing injury
and muscle strain while you garden.
Class C
Innovative Approaches to Square Foot &
Vertical Gardening
Bob Strawn & Julie Bischke show what’s
new in space saving & container gardens:
raised beds, square foot growing, vertical
gardening, and soil amendments.
1:50 PM
Afternoon Keynote Speaker:
Kathy Zuzek
A Look At New Shrubs: High Impact, Low
Input
Plant breeders are hard at work creating new
shrubs for your landscapes. A lot has
changed in the world of hydrangeas, shrub
roses, ninebarks, bush honeysuckles,
potentillas, and other shrub groups. During
this presentation, Kathy will give us a
glimpse at some of these breeders' efforts to
create beautiful and high-impact shrubs for
your landscapes.
Our Speakers:
Dawn Pape
Dawn Pape is a local author and self-proclaimed
“lawn chair gardener”. She has a Masters in
Environmental Education, founded the Blue
Thumb-Planting for Clean Water program,
and has written a gardening guide and two
children’s books about pollinating insects. Her
current mission is to promote eco-friendly,
functional yards and her company proudly shares
profits with community organizations.
Kathy Zuzek
Kathy is a University of Minnesota Extension
Educator with expertise in trees and shrubs. Much
of her work focuses on sustainable landscape
practices and plant evaluation research to identify
attractive low-care shrubs for the Upper Midwest.
Prior to joining the Extension horticultural team,
she worked as a plant breeder on the University
of Minnesota’s woody ornamental research
program that has provided northern gardeners
with the ‘Lights’ series of azaleas, Garden Glow
and Cardinal dogwoods, ‘Emerald Triumph’
viburnum, the Northern Accents roses,
Summertime Amur maackia, and other shrub and
tree cultivars.
Anna Dvorak
Anna is a certified Nutrition and Wellness
consultant. She helps people on their own paths
to healthy living through classes and coaching.
She teaches organic cooking and skin care classes,
and leads retreats and group cleanses for women
based on mindful, balanced living.
Theresa Mieseler
Theresa and her husband, Jim, own Shady Acres
Herb Farm in Chaska. They produce a large
variety of herbs, wild flowers, fruits and
vegetables using environmentally-sound practices.
Shady Acres also offers a number of classes and
events throughout the year at their shop and in
their gardens.
Carver-Scott Extension Master Gardeners:
Maren Christopher, Jackie Smith, Sara
Schmanski, Bob Strawn, and Julie Bischke