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MiamiGreen.info 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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OCTOBER 2013 GREEN EVENTS
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October 1| 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 Oct 2 | TropiColor: Color + Texture for South Florida Gardens time: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. location: Fairchild Tropical Garden fee: Member, $30; Non-member, $45 web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Education Classes Join Miami landscape designer, Carlos Somoza, on a journey through subtropical gardens that illustrate stunning plant combinations that can be used in your private gardens and balconies. Fundamental planting design principles, including color, form and texture will be discussed along with basic culture and characteristics of the plant palettes being highlighted. A plant species list of Carlos’ favorite planting combinations for Zone 10 and a list of local nursery resources for plant materials will be available to students. October 2 | Free Wednesdays @ Fairchild Garden location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156 time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website Enjoy the wonder of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden the first Wednesday of every month from June to November, for free. A day at Fairchild is a day in paradise. Where else can you visit a tropical rainforest, view world class art, dine at an award winning café and do it all surrounded by the unparalleled beauty of nature? Only at Fairchild. Spend a day exploring 83 acres of tropical palms, cycads, flowering trees and breathtaking vistas. Don't miss free tram tours (limited seating) on these special days. October 5 | Fairchild Garden Member's Plant Sale location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156 time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM web: Fairchild Tropical Garden website Annually during the past 75 years, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden has distributed plants to Fairchild members for use in the South Florida gardens and landscapes. Once again the time has arrived for Garden members to enjoy an exclusive benefit of membership. Through the years, Fairchild's horticulture staff have observed, evaluated, and introduced beautiful, interesting, and diverse trees, shrubs, vines and groundcovers to the community. A concerted effort has been made to identify plants that are well adapted to our climate and soils, are non invasive, and will provide a welcome addition to the yards and gardens of South Florida. There is an emphasis on uncommonly available or rare native species as well as introducing more common native plants to members who want to establish their own backyard natural habitats to attract butterflies, birds and other wildlife. Plants from other lands have been observed, monitored and carefully chosen to add to the assortment of plant choices for home gardens. The Distribution Plants have been grown in larger quantities than the other sale plants and are carefully selected for this program. Plan an early start: lines form quickly, and while we have a good supply, it is not endless. Along with other staff members and knowledgeable volunteers, we'll be available to advise you on site selection, planting and growing these very special plants. For complete information about the plants available for purchase at the 2013 Members Day Plant Sale, click here. October 5-6| Environmental Leadership Workshop website: www.tropicalaudubon.org register: https://tropicalaudubon.ejoinme.org/?tabid=60562 address: The Deering Estate | 16701 SW 72nd Street |Miami, FL 33157 A two day workshop set to inspire local citizens towards action and stewardship. Expert panelists will cover an array of environmental topics. Registration required and student scholarships available by applying online. Facilitated by Tropical Audubon Society (TAS), South Florida's nonprofit Voice of Conservation, numerous environmental and area business partners, the weekend Environmental Leadership Workshop will connect the private and nonprofit sectors with fresh talent to help reshape Miami’s ecological future. Each day begins with field trips and yoga, followed by a networking breakfast. Day One is filled with a series of 40-minute Lectures outlining key environmental issues affecting South Florida: Everglades & Water, the Health of area Estuaries, Land Use and Connectivity, and Sea Level Rise. A Sunset Kayak Trip and a tour of the historic Deering Estate will close the day. Day Two will offer tracks on diversity in conservation, grassroots organizing, public speaking, fundraising for nonprofits and communicating via traditional and social media. A Legacy Circle Wine Reception, courtesy of Republic National Distributing Company, will crown the event. October 10 | Infill Housing Book Talk @ LAB Miami venue: The LAB Miami address: 400 NW 26th Street | Miami, FL 33127 web: http://infillhousing-es2.eventbrite.com/?rank=1 Miami has built to the sky and horizon with towers and subdivisions but lacks neighborhoods of a middle scale. In other cities—like Boston’s North End or New York’s West Village—those places are often the most vibrant. To help Miami start developing such neighborhoods, Knight Foundation funded an architecture studio course at the Florida International University School of Architecture about the neighborhood building block: small, adaptable buildings. “‘Infill Housing’ is an easy-to-follow roadmap of how Miami can draw from the past to develop the small, adaptable buildings that add up to great middle-scale neighborhoods,” said Andrew Frey, Townhouse Center’s executive director. During the visits to downtown Miami and Savannah, students experienced how small-scale infill buildings create resilient urban environments. The Savannah visit took students far out of the studio, to places and buildings that they had never seen before. Immersing students in cities so that they can experience buildings in person is critical to architecture education. It teaches students to “see” architecture and to appreciate its scale, materials, use and context. “Infill Housing” was published after two months of culling, editing and formatting. It begins with student drawings of their inspiration—the small urban buildings in Miami and Savannah—and continues with their new designs, interspersed with photos of the students at work in Miami and Savannah. It provides a clear vision of what the students produced and experienced and is available in paperback or as a free e-book. October 10| 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 October 12 | Advanced Edibles Seminar host: Miami Beach Botanic Garden location: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139 time: 10am-Noon This last month's popular discussion on basic edible gardening in South Florida. If you didn't attend the September talk because you were too busy tending your already-burgeoning garden, then this is the class for you. This lecture is given by Adrian Hunsberger, the Urban Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Coordinator at the Miami-Dade Extension Service. Adrian writes the plant clinic column for the Miami Herald. BONUS! We now have a Nespresso machine at the Garden. Take your morning joe at our Saturday Seminars to the next level. October 14 | Tropical Flowering Tree Society lecture: Kirsten Albrecht Llamas location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156 room: Corbin Building, classroom "A" time: 7:30 pm web: www.tfts.org/ About the speaker: Kirsten Albrecht Llamas is the author of Tropical Flowering Plants: A Guide to Identification and Cultivation, a book that bridges the standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide with clear photographs. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy from the definitive text of Dr. Walter Judd, the book is a rare work of scrupulous research — and magnificent photography — that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to the botanist. Kirsten Llamas exhaustively documents more than 1400 flowering trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants commonly grown in tropical and subtropical gardens. She provides thorough information on cultivation for each plant, including growth characteristics, light exposure, cold hardiness, invasive tendencies, and unique horticultural features. More than 1500 color photos of magnificent flowering specimens make this book as much a pleasure to browse as it is a resource for research. Sure to appeal to gardeners, landscape designers, nurseries, collectors, botany students, florists, and botanical gardens, Tropical Flowering Plants promises to be a staple reference for decades to come. October 15 | Bromeliad Society Annnual Auction location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:00 PM web: http://www.bssf-miami.org/ October 20 |ConSerVations: Champion Trees! time: 10:00 am address: 3251 South Miami Avenue | Miami, FL 33129 contact: Rebecca Peterson phone Number: 305-860-8423 link: http://www.vizcayamuseum.org When James Deering decided to preserve as many trees as possible during Vizcaya's construction (almost 100 years ago) he paved the way for them to become registered state and national champions. Join Ian Simpkins, Chief Horticulturist at Vizcaya for a tour of the notable and champion trees on Vizcaya's grounds. Learn about how a tree becomes a champion and participate in measuring a candidate along with State Foresters to see if there will be a new champion at Vizcaya! October 22 | Florida Native Plant Society Miami-Dade speaker: Ian Jones, PhD candidate FIU location: Pinecrest Gardens | 11000 Southwest 57th Avenue | Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm web: www.dade.fnpschapters.org "Ants and native plants" – Ian Jones, PhD candidate at FIU, will speak about ants tending Senna plants to protect them, and other interesting ant-plant relationships. October 30 | 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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