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Cultivating Culinary Mushrooms
Growing Culinary Mushrooms - Easier than you think! Join Tara Stephen for an afternoon of mushroom growing. Three different methods will be examined: Pearl Oysters on stacks, Wine Caps on garden on beds and Shaggy Manes on compost heaps. If you love dining on mushrooms don't miss how easy it is to grow your own. Tara Stephens is conservation biologist by day and…
Planet & People Friendly Backyards
Planet & People Friendly Backyards - Caring for our planet and people starts right in our own backyards learn how with Claudia Bolli Caring for our planet and people starts right in our own backyards. With carefully selected edible, medicinal and native plants, we can create a garden sanctuary that heals and feeds us while providing…
Cypripedium Culture. Lady Slipper Orchids
Join Shawn Hillis on growing Lady Slipper Orchids in Western Canadian gardens. The distinctive flowers of Cypripedium and other Lady Slipper Orchids are marked by the inflated slipper or shoe-shaped lip. The name Cypripedium is derived from Kypris, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, the Latin word pedis meaning “foot” the Greek word pedilon meaning “slipper”. There are about 58…
MGAA – Creating Beauty Through Texture, with Elaine Rude
Creating texture in a garden can be a challenge for gardeners including the most experienced ones. Texture is rather an amorphous quality generating questions of: what is it really; why are some plants considered textural and not others and, how do you put plants together to create interest? While we often think of texture as…
MGAA: Botanical Art Show with Artist Janet Kan
Join Janet Kan for a Botanical garden tour through her art. Join Janet as she shares her experiences and experiments with oil, ink and various pencil techniques to try and capture the beauty in life and nature. While this discussion focuses largely on botanicals, there are a few other pieces such as landscapes and birds…
MGAA: How Plants Deal with Drought
Hot and Dry. Join Elaine Rude as she explores the ways plants handle drought. Plants are no strangers to dealing with stressful conditions. The multiple 30+ C days this summer forced plants to enlist a number of strategies to cope with drought and heat. What mechanisms do plants use to survive these stressors and how…
MGAA: Grounded in Science – Fall Symposium
Join us for our Fall Symposium on getting back to the basics of gardening, grounded in science. The digital world bombards us with gardening trends, current and not-so current fads. How to sort fact from fiction is challenging. Join the MGAA as we explore gardening practices that are Grounded in Science. Join Robert Pavlis, of…
MGAA: Xeriscaping and Water-wise Gardening
Planting solutions for a dry land with Joanna Tschudy. Calgary can be a tough place to garden- heavy clay soils, short growing season, cold nights, midsummer hailstorms, sporadic rainfall, hungry wildlife- these are just some of the challenges unique to our high and dry climate. Xeriscaping and water-wise gardening bring solutions and balance. Learn what…
MGAA: A Lifetime of Lessons from a Tree Whisperer
Join author, arborist and tree guru Kevin Lee, the 'Tree Whisperer' as he talks 'trees'. Kevin Lee, a student of Dr Alex Shigo, has been an arborist in Calgary since the 80s and runs a holistic tree service, krltreeeservice.com . He is the author of , Your trees, what they want you to know, a…
MGAA: Native Grasses of Alberta
Join Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed, from ALCLA Native Plants, for a talk on growing Native Grasses. There has been much interest in growing native flowers, shrub and trees, however native grasses haven't had much attention. Let Latifia be your guide of the beauty of the humble grass and growing them in our gardens. Eventbrite Tickets
MGAA: Seed Collecting in Kyrgyzstan
Join Yaro Horachek on a trek through Kyrgyzstan in search of native plants. Come join Yaro Horachek for a photo-rich travel documentary describing his alpine seed collecting trips through Eastern Asia. The plants are unique and the mountainous views are stunning. Yaro is a knowledgeable alpine gardener and great story teller describing his adventures through…
MGAA: The Science of Soil
Exploring the 'heavy' side of soil with Mike Dorion Lets dive into the nitty gritty of the soil and what is actually happening down there. We will get up close and personal with the microbes in our soils and leave with an understanding of their roles. If we can understand how to support them then…