To Do List: Maine YardScaping Workshop
Maine YardScaping Workshop
Wednesday June 25, 2008, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Counting House Museum, South Berwick, Maine
Join the growing number of Mainers who have decided to change their yard care ways for the health of the environment, people and wildlife. Learn the six step program to reduce your reliance on pesticides, fertilizers, and water, and minimize polluted runoff from stormwater.
6:30 Introductions/Historic Museum and Park landscape
6:45 YardScaping presentation (Master Gardener, Pat Ianni)
7:15 YardScaping Game/Tour of Park
7:45 Door prizes/wrap up
8:00 End Program
Pat Ianni is a Master Gardener from Falmouth and has been gardening in her home gardens for 15 years. Employed as a Senior Environmental Specialist for TD Banknorth in the risk management department, her education and career have focused on environmental science, with an undergraduate emphasis in biology, chemistry and soil science, and a 25 year career specializing in assessment of the risks posed by hazardous wastes and toxic materials at properties around the country. In 2005, she completed her Master Gardener training, and subsequent YardScaping training through the Cumberland County Cooperative Extension Service.
To RSVP or for more information, contact Kristie Rabasca, PE, LEED AP at Sevee & Maher Engineers, Inc. 207.829.5016
(The second floor of the Counting House Museum is not handicapped accessible. Please call advance if you cannot navigate stairs so the program can be adjusted accordingly.) Sponsored by: The Towns of Kittery, Eliot, South Berwick and Berwick; Maine YardScaping, and The Old Berwick Historical Society