Nashua Garden Club Presents: 'This Yard is for the Birds'

The Nashua Garden Club will hold its February meeting on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 from 7 to 9 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 121 Manchester Street, Nashua, NH 
Program:  "This Yard Is For The Birds!" by Mary Tebo Davis, UNH Cooperative Extension Field Specialist 

The program is a presentation focused on landscaping for wildlife.  Anyone with a backyard, garden or landscaped area can help wildlife by altering their landscaping and gardening practices.  Our speaker, Mary Tebo Davis, joined the Hillsborough County Cooperative Extension Team in 1996. As Community Forestry Educator, Mary's primary responsibility is to run the NH Community Tree Steward Volunteer Program, which she has coordinated since 1993.  The Tree Steward Program is an innovative approach to volunteer stewardship in urban forestry.  The program is a partnership between UNH Cooperative Extension, the NH Division of Forests and Lands, and the US Forest Service.  Mary is responsible for providing the Tree Steward volunteers with a comprehensive education and training program in urban forestry.  Once steward training is complete, Mary works with the volunteers as they begin projects in their local communities.  Projects include tree inventories, tree planting and maintenance, urban ecosystem management and regreening of vacant lots, and model city landscape. 

Members of neighboring garden clubs are encouraged to attend this presentation as well as the general public.  There is a $5 fee to attend. The Nashua Garden Club meets the first Wednesday of each month at the First Baptist Church, 121 Manchester St., starting at 7 p.m.  New members are welcome to join at any time of the year by emailing Garnette Westbrook, membership coordinator, atgarnney@aol.com.  Annual dues are $20. 

More information about the club can be found on our website (www.nashuagardenclub.org) or like us on Facebook.