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SUMMARY:MGAA: Grounded in Science - Fall Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Fall Symposium on getting back to the basics of gardening\, grounded in science.\nThe 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.  \nJoin Robert Pavlis\, of Garden Fundamentals\, as he looks at the many positive attributes of creating environmentally-friendly bog gardens and how to build these sans mosquitoes. \nThen Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott\, one of the Garden Professors\, will tackle fact-based gardening practices dispelling many current popular myth-based gardening trends. \nPlease download Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott’s “Garden Zombies! Myths that will not die”: \nDownloadPDF \nWe round out our day with Larry Hodgson\, The Laidback Gardener\, as he takes us on a tour of the world’s most beautiful Botanic Gardens and the important research and conservation work being done there. \nJoin us for a clarifying\, fact-filled garden conversation.  \nNote: Talks will be available to ticket holders for 1 week following the symposium.
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/mgaa-grounded-in-science-fall-symposium/
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SUMMARY:MGAA: How Plants Deal with Drought
DESCRIPTION:Hot and Dry. Join Elaine Rude as she explores the ways plants handle drought. \nPlants 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 do these affect plant growth and production? Join Elaine Rude as she explores plant responses to adverse conditions.
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/mgaa-how-plants-deal-with-drought/
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SUMMARY:MGAA: Botanical Art Show with Artist Janet Kan
DESCRIPTION:Join Janet Kan for a Botanical garden tour through her art.\nJoin 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 to add the spice of variety.
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/mgaa-botanical-art-show-with-artist-janet-kan/
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SUMMARY:MGAA - Creating Beauty Through Texture\, with Elaine Rude
DESCRIPTION: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 something tactile\, there are a number of surprising ways to manipulate plant qualities to create depth and interest through texture. So let’s take a journey to discover what these qualities are and how to put them to best use.\n~~~~\nElaine Rude MG\, should be a familiar face as a popular local garden speaker and instructor in the MG program. She is a regular contributor to The Gardener (formerly Gardener for the Prairies)\, Fine Gardening\, Calgary Herald\, CHS and Canada’s Local Gardener (formerly AB Gardens). Elaine battles wind and wildlife on her beautiful NW acreage garden\, and is the owner of Paintbrush Garden Design and Consulting\, and a member of the Garden Sages.\nRegister using Eventbrite.
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/mgaa-creating-beauty-through-texture-with-elaine-rude/
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SUMMARY:Cypripedium Culture. Lady Slipper Orchids
DESCRIPTION: Join Shawn Hillis on growing Lady Slipper Orchids in Western Canadian gardens.\n\n\nThe 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 species worldwide; 13 in North America.\n\n\nShawn Hollis is an award winning horticulturalist\, author and lecturer. Shawn’s nursery Gardens Slippers is the most awarded temperate orchid nursery in North America. \n\n\n\nRegister for this event using Eventbrite.
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/cypripedium-culture-lady-slipper-orchids/
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SUMMARY:Planet & People Friendly Backyards
DESCRIPTION:Planet & People Friendly Backyards – Caring for our planet and people starts right in our own backyards learn how with Claudia Bolli\n\n\n\nCaring 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 habitat for other species. This presentation will mention eco-scaping and permaculture principles\, and includes some practical tools and strategies for working with hardy plants\, pollinators\, soil dwellers and on-site water sources.\n\nClaudia Bolli is a nature lover\, gardener and teacher. Her desire to contribute to society and protect our planet has led her to permaculture\, a design system for human habitat that is inspired by relationships found in nature. She shares her passion for growing food through permaculture design\, yard consultations and occasional workshops. Her education includes a B.Ed.\, and a Diploma in Biological Sciences. She has completed a Permaculture Design Certificate\, Master Naturalist training\, is a Gaia College accredited Organic Master Gardener for the OMG Stony Plain program\, and has taken numerous gardening courses from The Urban Farmer and other inspiring teachers. Claudia is the owner of Wild Green Garden Consulting\, www.wildgreen.ca\, in Edmonton. She also coordinates Little Green Thumbs\, an indoor school gardening program\, on behalf of Sustainable Food Edmonton. \nRegister using Eventbrite. \n 
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/planet-people-friendly-backyards/
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SUMMARY:Cultivating Culinary Mushrooms
DESCRIPTION:Growing Culinary Mushrooms – Easier than you think!\n\n\nJoin 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. \nTara Stephens is conservation biologist by day and runs Fungi Akuafo with Meghan Vesey by night (and on week-ends). In addition to sharing her fascination for fungi and love of growing mushrooms with others\, Tara has a keen interest in permaculture\, local food systems and community building. www.fungiakuafo.com \nPlease register with Eventbrite.
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/cultivating-culinary-mushrooms/
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SUMMARY:Why flowers do what they do\, better\, with soot\, ash & s**t.
DESCRIPTION:A story of the Waterton post-fire blooms\, Serengeti fertility\, and Amazonian green.\n\nJoin award Winning Conservationist\, Educator\, Naturalist and WildLife Expert Brian Keating for a story of the Waterton post-fire blooms\, Serengeti fertility\, and Amazonian green.\n\n\n\nBrian Keating is one of Canada’s most in demand keynote speakers. He previously held the position “Head of Conservation Outreach” at the Zoo\, which enabled him to raise money and then spend it on environmental projects around the world. He has been leading groups on nature based travel for three decades\, exploring some of the best wildlife areas on the Planet. Because of his experiences\, insights and his expertise\, Brian Keating is a weekly guest on both Calgary and Edmonton’s CBC Radio. For many years\, he was a regular on the Discovery Channel\, using his own wilderness adventure and wildlife filming. Media outlets such as CBC\, CTV\, Huffington Post\, and Radio Canada International often call on Brian to learn his past and present stories of adventure\, travel\, nature and discovery. \n  \nThis Event is $10 for members of MGAA and $20 for non-members of MGAA. \nRegister using Eventbrite. \n  \nThis Event is appreciatively sponsored by Edward Jones.
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/why-flowers-do-what-they-do-better-with-soot-ash-st/
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SUMMARY:Alberta Native Bees
DESCRIPTION:Alberta’s Native Bees – Join us to learn about the diversity of native bees in Alberta\, their life cycles and habitat requirements. We’ll cover best practices for bee hotels and bumble bee boxes\, the difference between native and managed bees and whether you should purchase bee cocoons for your garden. \n\nMegan Evans – Megan is a Professional Biologist with a degree Environmental Science and a Master’s in Ecology from the U of C. She worked as a summer student on a pollinator research study with Agriculture Canada\, which started her interest in native bees. Megan spent 6 years working with the provincial government in a number of roles including as an Ecologist with Alberta Parks. She currently works as the Executive Director for the Alberta Invasive Species Council. Megan has sat on the board for the Alberta Invasive Species Council; the Entomological Society of Alberta; and she co-founded the Alberta Native Bee Council in 2017.\n\nPleaser register via Eventbrite.
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/alberta-native-bees/
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SUMMARY:Backyard Birds of Alberta
DESCRIPTION:MGAA – Backyard Birds of Alberta with Brian Stephens\n\n\n\nJoin us in this 3 part presentation about Alberta birds.\n\nAlberta has over 300 species of birds. The talk will focus on a selection of birds usually found in our urban and nearby areas with the goal of giving you a core group of birds and the group (family) they are in. This will help you identify something that is different from the usual. We will also cover some of the resources that are available to help. For the core group we will also look at their habitat preferences\, how they forage for food\, and what they prefer to feed on. \nStephens Brian has been birding throughout Alberta for over 30 years. He has birded all over Alberta including a big year\, and in Nunavut\, Northwest Territories\, Newfoundland\, British Columbia\, Saskatchewan\, Arizona and California. He is currently President of the Edmonton Nature Club. \nThis Event is free for MGAA members and $10 for non-MGAA members. \nRegister using Eventbrite.
URL:https://mgaab.org/event/backyard-birds-of-alberta/
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