Minnesota State Extension Master Gardener Conference

Our Plants, Our Planet, Our VolunteersExperience empowering speakers, enhance your horticulture knowledge, attend exclusive workshops, network with your peers, and explore ways to inspire and engage your community in sustaining a healthy planet, through healthy

plants, for healthy people.

Friday, June 23, and Saturday, June 24, 2017 Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chaska

Friday Keynote Thomas RainerThomas Rainer is a landscape architect, teacher, and author of Gardening in a Post-Wild World. He is a passionate advocate for an ecologically expressive design aesthetic that does not imitate nature, but interprets it. He has designed landscapes for the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, and The New York Botanical Garden.

Saturday Keynote Jeff Lowenfels Author of the Award-winning Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener’ Guide To The Soil Food Web, Team-ing With Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition and Teaming With Fungi: The Organic Grower’s Guide to Mycorrhizae.

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MASTER GARDENER PROGRAM

www.arboretum.umn.edu/EMGConference2017.aspx

Full Conference: (Friday and Saturday) $160. Before May 15 earlybird, $140

Friday Only - Morning Bus to Uof MN St. Paul Campus Tour. (includes lunch & icecream): $30 - Afternoon Breakout Sessions (include snack): $30 - Evening Bee-Bee-Q with drinks and entertainment at the Tashjian Bee Center (includes dinner): $30

Saturday Only - Full Day (breakout sessions, breakfast, & lunch): $70

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