Outagamie County Master Gardeners Association

Members meeting: May 15, 2008

Program:

• Potluck – outstanding as usual. Did you try the tequila lime cheesecake?
• Tour of the GFC bulb gardens.
• Tom Brinkman – Container Gardening. If you could not attend, you missed a great session that was an excellent, practical, how-to guide of all types of plants, grasses, location and colors. Thank you, Tom!

Meeting: called to order at approximately 8 p.m. by President Mary Learman

Previous meeting minutes approved as read.

Treasurer’s report: Pam Hagen presented the treasurer’s report, which is available upon request.

State Rep.: Kathy Baum – reminder about the July State conference. Kathy has

raffle tickets for sale.

Education report: Karen DesJarlais – program planning for 2009 is just about

complete, but if there are any suggestions, please give them to her. The Open

House for July has been approved and speakers arranged.

Projects: Kate Langner – Check the Web site for the complete list. If your project

does not have details, please send them to Jan Sommerfeld for inclusion. We are

working on defining the how and what for sanctioning to help clarify projects. This

should be in place for 2009.

Programs: Meg Hunsader – June’s meeting will be at Meg’s. Dave Bayer will be

speaking about pest management. Details for July and August will follow.

Fundraising: Carol Vande Berg. Everything proceeding nicely for the plant sale.

Labels were available for the plants. A deal has been worked out with Thistledown

Gardens to sell their plants and the MGs will retain 30% of all sales. Remember to

keep track of all your hours – on the road, in the hoop house, on the phone, printing

labels off the computer, etc.

Communications: Colleen Reed – nothing new.

Horticulture: Kevin Jarek. Almost a year to the day, the “April” matter is resolved,

allbeit unsatisfactorily. Kevin thanked everyone for returning the evaluation sheets

to help his tenure.

At-large member: Lynn Coffeen – plans have been completed for redoing the

gardens at the UW-Extension and a few volunteers are need to help clear out the old growth. The west side will be replanted in time for the plant sale. Lynn also gave out some gourds for those folks wanting to make bird houses.

Old business: We have a new hospitality person. Thank you, Mike, and also a huge

thank you to Dale for all his great past service at the meetings.

Mention was made that several projects are still looking for volunteers, including the

Spring Festival at the GFC, the Labrynth Gardens and the telephones at the UW-Extension. The Seymour County Fair is coming up, and it was suggested that we give away packs of seeds. Judy will check into ordering some for the event.

The member list has been distributed by e-mail, and Kathy Baum will take care of

ensuring those without computer access get their copies.

Rod has extra copies of the instructions for rain barrels, so please contact him if

you would like a copy.

No new business at this time.

Meeting adjourned at approximately 8:30 p.m.

48 members attended.

35 minutes Service / 45 minutes Education / plus travel time.

Submitted by: Mary Learman

Next meeting: June 19