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MiamiGreen.Co is a Green Events Calendar featuring South Florida architecture, environmental design, garden lectures, and eco events. This events calendar is provided as a community service for South Florida environmental activists, garden enthusiasts and green industry professionals. Each of the organizations featured in our calendar is a priceless resource of information for sustainable living practices - consider joining a South Florida botanic garden, garden club or plant society today!
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SEPTEMBER 2014 GREEN EVENTS
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September 2 | Orchid Society of Coral Gables
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL room: Corbin Building, classroom "A" date: first Tuesday of every month time: 7:30 pm web: www.oscgonline.org September 6 | Kitchen Gardening location: Miami Beach Botanic Garden address: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139 time: 10:00 - 12:00pm web: Miami Beach Botanical Garden Learn the basics of starting your own edible garden and prepping existing food gardens for the vegetable season. This is a free talk given by Les Dames d'Escoffier member Julie Petrella Arch. Julie is the executive director of the edible community garden at Merrick House in Coral Gables and will tell you how you can have tastier, fresher and healthier food in your kitchen this year no matter what your experience level or space restrictions. After the presentation, get your hands dirty with Miami Beach Garden Club President, Cindy Hill, who will be leading a practical seed-planting activity covering the very basics and building blocks of creating an edible garden for your home. September 8 | Tropical Flowering Tree Society Plant Sale topic: Preparing your South Florida Garden for Winter speaker: Dr. Robert McMillan location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30pm web: www.tfts.org/ September 11 | South Dade Garden Club Meeting location: Fruit and Spice Park | 24801 SW 187 Ave | Homestead, Florida 33031 date: Second Thursday of each month time: 7:00pm web: www.miamifruitandspicepark.com September 16 | Bromeliad Society Meeting speaker: Robert McMillan, Jr., Ph.D. topic: Bromeliad Production location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30 PM web: http://www.bssf-miami.org/ About the speaker: Bob McMillan was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees at the University of Miami and a Ph.D. degree at Washington State University. As a longtime employee of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), he gained recognition as a leading authority on diseases of ornamentals, tropical fruits and vegetable throughout the world. He also patented two biological agents, which have shown promise for the control of numerous plant pathogens. Dr. McMillan has remained very active in retirement. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Florida and Miami Dade College, teaching plant pathology, entomology, and horticulture, with emphasis on orchid diseases and other ornamental plant disorders. He is also the Director of Research and Developement for Kerry's Bromeliad Nursery, Inc. in Homestead and Twyford International's tissue culture laboratory. His duties at the nursery are to develop disease control strategies, as well as production practices for bromeliads and orchids. With the Twyford division, he deals with issues of tissue culture advancement and plant contaminates. September 22 | Tropical Fern and Exotic Plant Society speaker: Ivan Portilla topic: The Orchids and Aroids of Ecuador location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30 PM web: http://tfeps.org Ecuador with its unique geology and numerous micro-climates is the ideal host for thousands of orchid and aroid species. This program will feature a pictorial tour of orchids and aroids in their native habitat with remarks on each plant. Ivan Portilla is the Vice President of Ecuagenera, a family owned business, whose mission is to protect, grow and market Ecuadorean species of ornamental plants by establishing a sustainable management of the resource within the concept of preservation. Ivan has been involved in all aspects of the business and is the primary point person for sales throughout North America. Ivan will bring plants that will be available for sale after his presentation. September 23 | Florida Native Plant Society speakers: Peggy Lantz topic: Eat Your Veggies Wild! location: Pinecrest Gardens address: 11000 Southwest 57th Avenue Miami, Florida 33156 time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm web: www.dade.fnpschapters.org People are enjoying the idea of gathering supper from wild plants. It is a delightful hobby, gets you out-of-doors, and adds interesting, delicious, nutritious -- and free -- vegetables to your table. Maybe "weeds" will even seem less of an enemy. Some of the plants that offer foods for humans in south Florida require not the least hint of chill, but many edible wild plants thrive from south Florida to Canada. Peggy Lantz will bring some edible plants to our meeting and share the details of how to identify, when to gather, and how to prepare and cook them. She will also show photos of other edible plants not available at this time of year or in her yard. Peggy, a Florida native born in Miami, has been gathering wild plants to put on the dinner table for over 50 years. She wrote, with Dick Deuerling, the first little book about Florida's wild edibles, Florida's Incredible Wild Edibles, published by FNPS in 1993. She has also written three other books about Florida nature. She was the first editor of "The Palmetto" and served FNPS for 15 years. She and her husband, Don, live in Orange County west of Orlando on the lake settled and named by her grandfather in 1914. September 23 | East Everglades Orchid Society location: UF Miami-Dade County Extension 18710 SW 288th ST date: Fourth Tuesday of each month time: • Mini-class - 7:15 p.m. • General meeting & program - 8:00 p.m. web: www.orchidseeos.com September 24 | Redland Tropical Fruit & Vegetable Society topic: New topic and speaker each month location: Fruit and Spice Park | 24801 SW 187 Avenue | Homestead, FL 33031 date: Last Wednesday of each month time: 7:30 pm web: Facebook |
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