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A garden on last year's garden tour. Fran Durner/ADNAre you proud of your garden? The Anchorage Garden Club is looking for a few good gardens for this year's Anchorage Garden Tour, traditionally held on the third Sunday in July, when Anchorage gardens are at their peak. Please call Marge Olson at 333-5868 if you have a garden you would like to show off!
Monday, June 22 from 5-7. The Anchorage CWMA's (Cooperative Weed Management Area) kickoff fair for Alaska Weeds Awareness Week and the Municipality of Anchorage Citizen Weeds Warrior program. The event will take place at the Lydia Selkregg Chalet at Russian Jack Springs Park. This year there will be lots of activities, from weed ID workshops to invasive plant trivia and, of course, refreshments. For more information visit the Anchorage Parks Foundation website or call 343-4460. Also, click here to visit the nonprofit group Also, click CANWIN's new website.
Tuesday, June 23, 9:30am. The Valley Garden Club is having a tour of six Wasilla-area gardens. Meet at the Catholic Church on Bogard Road. Directions will be given out at that time and the tour will begin promptly at 10 am. Stay until the end for door prizes to be awarded at the last garden on the tour. Call Fran Potter for more info at (907) 745-7676.
Tuesday, June 23, 7pm. Central Peninsula Garden Club program about Growing Rhubarb Commercially, or Why Rhubarb Now? A panel presentation about agricultural programs, processing facility plans and "tuning up" your rhubarb for the future. Panel presenters will be Amy Petit from the Division of Agriculture Office in Anchorage (programs, grants, loans), Elizabeth Gray, the Assistant MatSu Borough Manager (processing facility plans), and Bruce Bush, Mat-Su farmer (commercial rhubarb grower-juice project participant). At the Kenai Visitor Center on the Spur in Kenai. Refreshments served. Free and open to the public. For more program or membership information, contact Marion Nelson, 283-4632 or mmkn@ptialaska.net.
Thursday, June 25, noon-1:30pm. Pam Compton, Mat-Su Integrated Pest Management Technician, will be giving a presentation on beneficial insects. If you're free during the day, or can get away, please join us at the Anchorage Cooperative Extension office for the presentation. Please call us at 907-786-6300 so we may know how many people to expect.
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