Seed Saving at Berkshire Botanical Garden

What's Coming Up in the Garden?
January 26, 2012

Full-time

position:

Communications Manager

The Garden is seeking an experienced communications manager who will work closely with the Executive Director and staff to create, develop and oversee public relations, marketing and advertising campaigns.

Candidate must have a varied background in PR and strong writing skills, ability to initiate outreach for a variety of programs and events, and maintain close media relations with regional and national press.

Responsibilities include producing the Garden's magazine, Cuttings, three times per year and all promotional materials associated with Garden events.

Agility in Word and Excel and knowledge of Adobe CS5 required.

Please send cover letter and resume to:

Molly Boxer

Executive Director

No phone calls, please.

Seed Saving: It's a Good Thing

Looking for a way to create a successful garden and increase your yield?

Join us for a lecture this Saturday, January 28, 10am - noon

Seed Saving Vegetables

This program will provide an introduction to the basics of saving vegetable seeds, covering topics including pollination, isolation, timing, spacing, harvesting, cleaning, drying and storage. Learn terms used by geek growers like "hybrid and open pollinated 'selfers' and 'crossers'," and touch on the different requirements of annuals and biennials.

The lecture will be presented by Sylvia Davatz, a member of the Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa.

Sylvia launched Solstice Seeds, a small seed company in Hartland, Vermont dedicated to offering locally adapted, regionally appropriate, Hartland-grown, open-pollinated seed.

Cost: $22 Members / $27 Nonmembers

Registration recommended - walk ins welcome

Click for more information here or call 413-298-3926

Another Seed Event:

Seed-A-Thon

February 9, 2-4pm in the Center House

at Berkshire Botanical Garden

A Great Benefit of Garden Membership!

What's a Seed-A-Thon?

It's a free event hosted at the Garden where gardeners do what gardeners do best in February. . .dream about spring and plan for the next growing season.

Dream with us!

We'll have a multitude of seed catalogs and information on new and trendy plants, advice, humor and refershments.

Call Jen at 413-298-3926 and let her know you're coming.

All are welcome!

Those Purple Boxes. . .
Learn about non-native invasive forest insects at a free presentation February 1, 10am at the Garden's Exhibit Hall

Director of Horticulture Dorthe Hviid and Executive Director Molly Boxer examine an Emerald Ash Borer trap at the Garden with

Ken Gooch, DCR Forest Health Coordinator.

Please join Bill Toomey, The Nature Conservancy's North America Director of Forest Health Protection, to learn about how several non-native invasive forest insects (Asian Longhorned Beetle and the Emerald Ash Borer) could potentially change the face of our New England Forests.

Bill will show a short documentary film that was produced on the Asian Longhorned Beetle outbreak currently effecting Worcester, MA entitled "Lurking in the Trees." An open forum and discussion will follow about the impacts these pests could have in our community and what you can do to help address this challenge.

This lecture is hosted by the Lenox Garden Club and all are welcome. No pre-registration is required.

For more information about Berkshire Botanical Garden
call: 413.298.3926

check out our website: www.berkshirebotanical.org

write:
Berkshire Botanical Garden
PO Box 826, Stockbridge, MA. 01262

email:
info@berkshirebotanical.org

visit:
intersection of Routes 102 & 183, Stockbridge, MA

Open from 9 am - 5 pm daily. We look forward to meeting you!

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