Our March meeting was held with the environment in mind and what we as gardeners should be doing to promote a healthy environment and healthy eating. Our speaker, Mr. Bill Duesing, gave a wonderful, wide-ranging talk about many earth-sourced issues,…
From our friends at the New London Maritime Society, there are two events of interest, both featuring Maggie Jones, Director of the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, as speaker: The Third Thursday Lecture on January 21, 2010, 6:30-8:00pm, is entitled "Winter…
The September meeting was a wonderful success with a presentation by Peter Alden. He inspired all of us to be vigilant in our guard against invasive species. Even some of the beautiful plants like porcelain berry take over and crowd…
The Mystic Garden Club has donated funds to FRESH of New London for several years now. In fact, we were one of the founding groups with a large initial donation when FRESH was getting started. Saturday, September 19th, FRESH held a well attended party at it's…
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Joan Allen from UConn Home And Garden Education Center will be speaking to our club on May 25, 2010 on the devastation caused by this preditor insect. You can read more in this New York Times Article. A photo of the…
The Mystic Garden club is taking steps to be friendly to the environment. Barbara Tacy has been presenting information on packaging, helping us to differentiate between packaging which is recyclable and which is not. Members are encouraged to stop purchasing…
If you are overwhelmed with catalogs and hate to have all that paper wasted you can visit www.catalogchoice.org to choose which catalog mailing lists you'd like to be removed from.
It's not surprising that the plethora of plastic shopping bags is not good for the environment. I have been reusing my plastic bags whenever I go to a wholesale club but other than that they collect in my kitchen at…