We're almost there! Registration will begin on or about: August
20, 2008.
Registration fees are: $260 early bird; $310 regular
registration.
Hotel rates are $129 for Monarch standard suite (double-double,
queen or
king)
Keynote Speakers:
Jeff Lowenfels, author "Teaming with Microbes" and founder
"Plant a Row for the Hungry"
Dr. Marvin Miller, Ball Horticulture Co. and "America in Bloom"
The following Speakers have been invited:
* Food without Land - Erik Knutzen
* Hydroponic Herb and Vegetable Production - Tim Connelly
* Those Crazy Latin Names - Who Needs 'em? -Angela
O'Callaghan
* How to Drink Water from a Fire Hose - Don Davis
* Art from Found Objects - Janet Rademacher
* Container Succulents for All Climates - Mo Gilmore
* It's Easy to be Green - Steve Rypka
* LEED certified Landscape Ideas- Jeff Roberts
* Protecting America from Imported Plant Pests / First
Detector -
Richard Hoenish
* Community Gardens - Bill Maynard and Bobby Wilson
* The Art of Nature - Sharon Schaefer
* Adaptive Gardening - Marge Hiller
* Turning Scarcity into Abundance /Water Harvesting - Brad
Lancaster
* From Plot to Plate -Roger Doiron
* CSI LV - the Evolution of Water Efficient Design - Jack
Zunino
* Have a Lawn? You CAN have a Meadow - John Greenlee
* Raise 'em Right --Training Young Trees Really Does Matter
- Dennis
Swartzell
* Victory Gardens -- the Past in the Present - Rose Hayden
Smith
* Healing from the Garden - Nicole Carter
* Be a Good Scout -- Earth-friendly Pest Management - ML
Robinson
* The Making of the Mountain - Horticulture at Wynn Resort -
Jim Gibbons
* Slow Foods Convivium - Bob Morris and Giovanni Mauro
* Native Bees to the Rescue?-Michelle Elekonich
* Tree Canopy Research -- The Last Frontier of Biological
Research -
Sydney Everhart
Please contact Ann Edmunds, IMGC Coordinator, 702-257-5587 or
For regularly updated information on the 2009 International
Master
SEARCH FOR EXCELLENCE
Its time to remind your Master Gardener volunteers to begin work
on
applications for the International Search for Excellence awards.
Search
for Excellence is the recognition program of Master Gardener
volunteer
work throughout the United States and Canada. Master Gardeners
will
need to write the application but these must be approved by an
Extension
staff member. Application deadline is October 1, 2008. Awards
will be
presented at the International MG conference in Las Vegas, March
22-26,
2009.
For an application and information about the awards- visit our
national
Master Gardener site on eXtension at:
