BELFAST — The Belfast Backyard Membership kicks off its 2023 speaker sequence Tuesday, Jan. 17, with a free speak on pollinator-friendly gardens by Kate Garland, a horticulturist with the College of Maine Extension Service.
The one-hour public program, the primary of 9 lectures for 2023, shall be streamed dwell at midday within the Abbott Room on the Belfast Free Library, 106 Excessive St. Those that want to be a part of from residence might attend by way of Zoom. For extra data and to register, go to belfastgardenclub.org.
Pollinators like bees, birds and butterflies play a key function within the well being of our gardens and ecosystems. Specializing in native crops and panorama administration, Garland will provide sensible ideas for gardeners on methods to supply meals, habitat and water sources for pollinators. Her speak will embrace an introduction to the Pollinator-Pleasant Backyard Certification program on the College of Maine Extension Service.
Since becoming a member of the College of Maine Cooperative Extension Service in 2010, Garland has helped assist residence, faculty, and neighborhood gardening efforts in Penobscot and Aroostook counties by means of workshops, newsletters, and volunteer engagement. She holds a bachelor’s diploma in botany and a grasp’s diploma in horticulture from the College of Maine.
Belfast Backyard Membership will provide six daytime and three night applications in 2023 with assist from the Belfast Free Library. Packages cowl matters pertinent to gardening and the setting.
The daytime applications are held at midday on the library and are additionally out there on Zoom. The night applications, cosponsored by the library, are offered at 6:30 p.m. on Zoom solely and this 12 months concentrate on managing the influence of local weather change on gardens, farms and forests.
Based in 1928, the Belfast Backyard Membership promotes the data and love of gardening, the safety of native natural world, and the significance of civic beautification.
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