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Barbara Fischer, a member of the Steering Committee or the Native Plant Center spoke about adding native plants to gardens in our region.  She is also a co-founder of Go Native U which offers classes and a Certificate Program in Sustainable Gardening with Native Plants.

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  Daryl Beyers is the author of “The New Gardener’s Handbook. works in residential garden design and development. He is a writer, photographer, and editor. Soil is a dynamic, living organism, a relationship that exists between soil, water, and plants and how soil, organic matter, and microbiology relate to plant health and soil conservation is his topic

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e09DJs

Duncan Himmelman, Ph.D., received his doctorate at Cornell University and has more than 35 years of experience in practicing and teaching horticulture and landscape design.  We learned about groundcover plants that grow well in our region and how to use them to suppress weeds by creating a carpet of "living mulch" in your yard. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w9cjsB3IvQ

Edwina von Gal, Founder of the Perfect Earth Project

 is a landscape designer who has worked with numerous architects, designers and art world luminaries.. Her approach emphasizes sustainability, natural landscapes, and the use of native species. She emphasizes the need to keep away from ‘neat’ and let nature play a role in how we perceive, design, and maintain our landscapes?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYtXeCezHLk  

Julie Sootin and Eva Thaddeus

are the  owners of Wild Gardens Nursery and led us in a winter seeding workshop using seeds harvested from their nursery. They talkedabout seed stratification and seed dormancy and to work with Mother Nature. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wSexCkjjUk

Tim Tilghman has been Head Gardener at Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers, NY since 2011. He shared the ambitious restoration at the Garden from its inception in 1916 as one of the grandest private gardens in America to its decay in the 1970s, the Untermyer Gardens story is a tale of glory resurrected.  

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqIx7HFte9Y

Dennis (DJ) Haverkamp 

Beekeeper

Sustainability is a term we hear often in our modern world. But what does it really mean to live “sustainably”? As gardeners, we care about the environment and the future of the planet. “As a local honey keeper, I believe there are many things we can learn from the honey bee about how to live in harmony with nature.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxbofQvkKG8

Jan Johnsen is a landscape designer and author. She has been in the profession for forty-five years, is an award-winning instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and taught for several years at Columbia University.

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http://www.janjohnsen.com/

Deb Taft is a founding member of Westchester Growers' Alliance . She completed an internship in beekeeping and biodynamics at The Pfeiffer Center in Rockland County, and does consultation, teaching, and beekeeping.

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https://www.facebook.com/Mobius-Fields-295658902831/

Mark and Carrie Greenwald are partners in the landscape design firm Maher and Greenwald.  They showed us their amazing garden designs which combine hardscape and plants in the Garden.  

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTXsmzbMWU

Eddy Trotta is the owner of Trotta Foods in Thornwood, The Trottas produce  homemade products such as sauces, soups, sausage, fresh mozzarella and  many varieties of pasta. Eddy gave us a hands-on demonstration of how to make  fresh mozzarella.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_h_M99RzkU

Charles Roberto can identify over 500 species of birds on sight and 100 by sound. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Teatown Lake Reservation in and worked with them to start the annual February Hudson River Eagle Fest held at Croton Point. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkZNhvUZbo