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Posted by slwencel, on April 3rd, 2012
A “Tennessee Yard Done Right” is beautiful, earth-friendly and saves money.
Through the Home Landscape Workshop, Tennessee Yards and Neighborhoods (TYN) helps homeowners create attractive and healthy yards by working with Tennessee’s environment rather than against it.
TYN will host a Home Landscape Workshop in Chattanooga on April 24th and May 1. The six-hour workshop will meet [...]
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Posted by slwencel, on January 12th, 2012
The Chattanooga Native Plant & Wildflower Group of the Master Gardeners of Hamilton County is proud to present its first annual native plant symposium “Chattanooga’s Native Beauty: Gardening with Native Plants” on Saturday, March 10, 2012. The symposium will be held at Chattanooga State Community College campus in its Humanities Theatre. The program will begin [...]
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Posted by slwencel, on November 22nd, 2011
The Southern Appalachian region is, next to Southern China, the most botanically rich region on earth. Most of the plants growing around us have been used as food and medicine for hundreds or thousands of years. Some of our native plants risk being overharvested because the global demand for them exceeds the supply. Join Holli [...]
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Posted by slwencel, on October 31st, 2011
Title: The Chattanooga Native Plant and Wildflower Group
Location: Green|Spaces
Description: The next meeting of the Chattanooga Native Plant & Wildflower Group will be Monday, November 7th at 6:00 p.m. at Green|Spaces, 63 East Main Street.
At the meeting, we will be screening of the movie “Green Fire.”
The first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary environmentalist [...]
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Posted by slwencel, on September 1st, 2011
There is one new rain barrel workshop now scheduled for Saturday, September 10 at 11 am at the Chattanooga Arboretum and Nature Center. These build your own rain barrel workshops offer the opportunity to construct your own 55-gallon plastic rain barrel that will be ready to hook up to your home’s rain gutter system.
Advance registration [...]
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Posted by slwencel, on August 28th, 2011
Title: Chattanooga Native Plant and Wildflower Group
Location: Chattanooga Area Food Bank Conference Room
Description: The monthly meeting of the Natives will feature a presentation by Sean Crimmins, talking to us about “Native Plants in Erosion Control.”
Sean Crimmins is President of TPG Green Solutions, LLC and a nationally recognized erosion control specialist. TPG Green Solutions provides support [...]
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Posted by slwencel, on August 11th, 2011
In case you didn’t get a chance to participate in the rain barrel workshops MGHC offered this year, don’t despair. Building a rain barrel is a relatively easy Do It Yourself job. The University of Tennessee through the Tennessee Yards and Neighborhoods initiative put together a publication that provides clear instructions on building your own [...]
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Posted by slwencel, on June 21st, 2011
Title: Citizen Forester Launch Party
Location: The Crash Pad – 29 Johnson Street
Link out: Click here for a brochure
Description: Trees leave a meaningful legacy, and there are hundreds of legacy trees in and around the city of Chattanooga. These trees represent the individual and collective actions of citizens devoted to bolstering the city’s scenic beauty and [...]
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Posted by slwencel, on June 21st, 2011
The Citizen Forester program is looking for self-motivated citizens interested in environmental education and activity “rooted” in and around trees. With the spring storms and tree damage, planting trees is even more important to help increase the tree canopy in the Chattanooga area. Persons trained as a citizen forester will become involved in Take [...]
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Posted by slwencel, on June 1st, 2011
We are happy to announce the 2011 series of rain barrel workshops to be held at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. These build your own rain barrel workshops offer the opportunity to construct your own 55-gallon plastic rain barrel that will be ready to hook up to your home’s rain gutter system. The following dates [...]
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