Barrington Meeting Notes

May 2,2017                          Barrington Bloomers Meeting Notes
Happy Spring everyone!. welcome to another "black fly season".
We ended our year with a Bloomers Christmas Gathering at Lynn Desharnis's house. We had 9 members in attendance, with a yankee swap. Donations for the food pantry were brought in by attending members. Had a wonderful time and the food from Lynn and side dishes from others was very yummy. Thank You Lynn for a wonderful time.
Our January meeting had to be canceled because of icy conditions, so our next meeting was in February, 15 our speaker was Richard Kahn of Kahn Landscaping in Hudson NH. Richard gave a demonstration for automatic plant watering systems using organic and repurposed materials. Very interesting and we even got a few members hands on making the bottled watering systems. there were 10 total people for this presentation. You can check out the plans for this at www.kahnlandscaping.com, or call Richard at 877-205-1077 for more information. We had a quick meeting  about future speakers, and field trips for upcoming months. We are always looking for new ideas of places to go or people to bring in for our meetings, anyone with ideas please let us know. At the end of the meeting we presented Kim and Jeff Langevin with a thank you gift card for all the extra hard work they have done at the town garden and at the post office. They took it upon themselves to plant and maintain the post office landscaping, and also did mowing around the town garden all season long, thanks to you both great job!
March,15 our speaker was Karolina Bodner. She brought supplies for us to make "origami Lillies". Everyone had a wonderful time, there were 9 members in attendance. Thanks Karolina
April 19 our speaker was Camden Lee Tillinghast, high school senior working on her gold award for girl scouting. She chose to write a book about the Karner Blue Butterfly,"Saving KB". Amazing young lady learned all she could about the Karner butterfly and set up learning tools for schools to use with children to teach about this endangered species. Her book was not only written by her but also illustrated with amazing artwork of the butterfly. She visited the Karner Blue Butterfly easement in Concord and learned that they only eat the wild lupine flower leaves and that habitat is very limited for the butterfly. Very enjoyable speaker. we had 10 members and others in attendance.
April 20 we had the new sculture for the town garden installed by Angela Sarni art teacher at Barrington middle School, and the artist in residence Mark Ragonise who worked with the art students to make a sculture for our town garden. It is beautiful and we have had a lot of posivtive feedback. Ron and Diane St Jean photograghers for the Fosters paper came to take pictures of the installation of the sculture.
April 22 we had the town garden cleanup with 3 in attendance
April 29 was the cleanup of the library garden and again only had 3 in attendance. did 1 & 1/2 hours at the library then we went to the town garden to spread the mulch that was donated by the new business Great View in Barrington. The business has just opened with lots of big plans for expansion. If you show your a member of Barrington Bloomers you will get a discount of 10% on mulchs, soils,etc..Check it out
Lynn made arrangements for 4 pots that were donated from the Federal Saving Bank to go to the Emergency Center and the Tranfer Station. We will fill with plants from the FOTL sale and the pots will be maintained from the places after that. It never hurts to beautify places around Barrington!
upcoming events
May 17 Julie Colman from Wentworth Greenhouse will be our speaker, subject TBD
looking
 for more field trip ideas, some that were brought up were cooking class for farm to table, pickity place visit, butterfly garden center,tour of different garden centers.
Don't forget the Friends of the Library Plant Sale June 3rd at he Rec hall in Barrington. Bloomers will have a table of raffle items donated by members and local businesses. Stop by and check it out.
Enjoy your gardens!
Cindi