Garden Educators:
Speaker's Bureau
Here are some people who would make great guest
presenters
for your kids' garden club. Some charge a nominal fee,
but others might come just to be nice, and you could
repay them
with a nice basket of produce and heartfelt thank-you
notes from your kids.
Lauritzen Gardens
introductory slideshow presentation
Arrange through Duane Iwen, 933-5419
Restoration, Rehabilitation &
Healing Through Therapeutic Landscape Design & Horticultural Therapy: A
PowerPoint presentation that uses text and photographs to explore the
relationship between contact with nature and multidimensional wellness and its
relevance in today's society and healthcare environment. Attendees are
introduced to the benefits of gardens and related research, horticultural
therapy and design characteristics of therapeutic gardens. 50-60
minutes. Audience: consumers, gardeners and garden volunteers, Master
Gardeners, students, landscape designers and healthcare providers (goals and
objectives available for formal inservice
presentations).
SUE KOHLES,
Therapeutic Horticulture Specialist (402/472-2212 or email skohles2@unl.edu)
After Lewis and Clark: Journeys across Unknown Nebraska. Nebraskans are proud of their
connection to the monumental Lewis and Clark Expedition. But while the
Corps of Discovery only brushed the eastern shore of Nebraska,
two later and lesser-known expeditions broke free of the Missouri River and
plunged westward along the Platte, traversing the heart of Nebraska. Like Lewis and Clark, the
Long Expedition (1820) and the Wyeth Expedition (1834) each brought new species
of plants and animals to light, and produced journals that provide intriguing
images of untrammeled Nebraska.
Jim Locklear, NSA
Director (402/472-6679 or email jlocklear1@unl.edu)
Perpetuating Plants through Propagation: Plants for your garden don't
always have to come in a pot from the nursery. Learn how collect and
germinate various types seeds or take cuttings from your own backyard--or
prairie!
KRISTINA JENSEN, Nursery
Technician (402/472-4952 or email kjensen2@unlnotes.unl.edu)
Gardening with Children. Involving children in the garden in all
aspects across the curriculum and using plants even when a school garden isn't
available.
Christina Hoyt,
Landscape Design Associate (402/472-5049 or email choyt2@unl.edu)
Healthy Yards, Healthy People AND Healthy Parks,
Healthy People: Our critical need for nature and the challenges we
are faced with. A better understanding of our need for nature leads us to
a new ways of thinking about landscape design and stewardship. Both
presentations present some broader scale issues but the first focuses on residential
issues/solutions and the second on broader community issues.
Christina Hoyt,
Landscape Design Associate (402/472-5049 or email choyt2@unl.edu)
Don Swanson will
speak on roses and rose care. Contact him at 402-493-5986
Loren Buxton will
speak on Bonsai. Contact at loren_buxton@yahoo.com;
402-435-0704;http://branchwork.blogspot.com