CMGA Summer Safari Event Information
EVENT CANCELLED
EVENT CANCELLED
Summer Safari & Semi-Annual Meeting Event
As you may know, New Haven County was recently designated a "high transmission area" for the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. Our venue, Lockwood Farm, is in New Haven County, in Hamden. In addition, our speaker, Tovah Martin, was planning to give a hands-on lecture and demonstration that she and CMGA felt is inappropriate for our members under these current circumstances.
For these reasons, we feel that cancelling our in-person Summer Safari that was to be held this Friday, August 13th is the appropriate, although difficult, step to take
Videos will be available
Our bylaws require that we provide a Semi-Annual Meeting for our membership, and we will do so, with a video presentation as we did last year. Since this decision has just been made, we don’t have an exact date for that video, but will post it by the end of the month. We will also make Dr. Charles Vossbrinck’s lecture on "Growing Figs in Connecticut'' available on our YouTube channel as well.
Registrations will be refunded
If you registered for the event, a refund and confirmation email will be sent to you. If you haven’t received a refund by the end of the month, please contact Sue Demuth, our Treasurer at treasurer@ctmga.org
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Please stay healthy!
Semi-Annual Meeting
9:30 AM - CMGA Business Meeting
This meeting will be available by the end of the August, for member viewing.
WELCOME: CMGA Vice PRESIDENT, Paula Russo
Tovah Martin
Our Featured Speaker
“Awakening Your Senses”
Tovah will share her newest presentation , which she calls “A Live Outdoor Lecture.”
Bio: Tovah Martin is an award-winning garden writer and lecturer, with expertise in both indoor and outdoor gardening. She is a passionate perennial, heirloom, vegetable and cottage gardener, and is accredited with NOFA as an Organic Land Care Professional. In addition to the garden outdoors, Tovah’s specialty also includes indoor gardening with tropical plants (especially begonias) in windowsills, greenhouses, and otherwise.
Charles R. Vossbrinck
Afternoon speaker
“Growing FIgs in Connecticut”
Dr. Vossbrinck will present a lecture and demo of his fig greenhouse on the farm.
Bio: (from the CAES website) Dr. Vossbrinck has a broad range of biological interests. His research centers around the molecular phylogenetic analysis including the analysis of West Nile Virus and Microsporidia. [He] also has an interest in Spiders and other soil dwelling arachnids.
Recently Dr. Vossbrinck has begun a project of growing figs in self-watering pots. He is growing 6 cultivars of figs (Neri, Melanzana, Osborne, Battaglia, Conadria, Verte) in 25 gallon self watering pots both outside and in high tunnels. The pots are stored indoors during the winter.
Questions?
Please contact the Events Committee at safari@ctmga.org