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Fun & Educational Seminars
The Living Lawn, A Lawn for Living
Join Us for a Free Seminar
Thursday, May 9th @ 10:30 a.m.
Location: 627 Route 1, York, Maine (in the Eldredge Building)
Chip Osborne – a professional horticulturist with 45 years of experience in the green industry – will be our speaker. In the mid-1990’s his extensive horticultural background was broadened to include turf grass management. Chip has been transitioning sports and recreational turf for twenty years.
He is a NOFA accredited Land Care Professional. He is on the board of Directors of Beyond Pesticides in Washington DC. In 2007 he founded Osborne Organics, a company that provides organic turf and landscape consulting services and education on a national level to universities, business, municipal, and institutional clients.
Chip will, in his presentation, discuss compelling reasons why we should consider a natural approach to lawn care such as public health, children’s health, storm water runoff, and water quality issues.
Chip’s approach will be to share the mission of pesticide reduction and elimination by “Awareness through Education” programs.
Don’t miss these informational and educational “Simple Steps to Organic Lawn Care” which will be outlined and explained in a common sense approach. It’s a threefold systems approach that Chip has developed after years of study. It’s a program for the do-it-yourselfer or the lawn care & contractor landscaper.
Light refreshments will be served.
Space is limited, so please make reservations
Use the form or call 207.363.3004
Light refreshments will be served.
What Are Our Attendees Saying?
Thank you once again for a wonderful, interesting and enlightening seminar. Paul Burlingame was so informative and passionate about organic chocolate and seemed to enjoy every minute of his sharing with us. Shall think of him whenever I might be tempted to indulge in the lesser chocolate – anything that is not organic. Do plan to give some cacao buds for Valentine’s Day. Thank you to you & Eldredge Lumber for this wonderful no-cost day of education & fun. Have a great Valentine’s Day.
I just wanted to thank you for your efforts in bringing interesting and informative seminars to Atlantic Design Center. Your speakers are well versed and enjoyable. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for the marvelous variety of presentations you’ve arranged for our community. I’m a newcomer to York but so far I have thoroughly enjoyed the Orchid and the A. Armstrong music seminar last Saturday.
We really enjoyed Ed Webster’s lecture and visiting your beautiful design center! Keep up the great marketing efforts with lectures & educational seminars! Thanks again.
Thank you again for the informative lecture today. There was a lot of good info to keep in mind. Your generous contribution to the community is appreciated.
It was a wonderful seminar. He (Thomas Berger) is such a professional, a delight to listen to. Thanks for this informative afternoon.
Terrific lawn care related seminar. Speakers were very generous with their information and time. Five stars out of five stars. Thank you.
Please know that all the hard work you obviously do to present these free seminars to the community, is greatly appreciated. From the notification in advance, to the wonderful topics and presenters, the great food, sense of community, question and answers and, above all, your smiling and warm welcome. Eldredge must and should be very proud of you. We have learned so much over the last few annual seminar periods. We have attended nearly all since we first discovered them and were very sad to have to miss the couple we did….like the chocolate and cookie ones. And how clever you are…such a great way to bring us all to Eldredge to shop. I live in Ogunquit and truly appreciated the seminar on organic lawn care. The staff were very informative and supportive. They gave me the encouragement to do my own lawn and we will be at your door from the time we take a sample of soil next spring, to the purchasing of all the needed supplies to bring our lawn and garden back to life, in a healthy, organic way. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
We would love for you, Ms Claesson, to share this email with the “Powers -to-be” at Eldredge. Without you, this wouldn’t be the tremendous success it is.
We have met new friends through this seminar, learned more about the community, met staff at Eldredge we didn’t know and even found the right tiles for our bathroom renovation while we were there.
Although we are unable to attend this up and coming seminar, we look forward to the next, and the next, and so on. Thank you again for all you do. It surely does not go unnoticed. See you soon.
We would love for you, Ms Claesson, to share this email with the “Powers -to-be” at Eldredge. Without you, this wouldn’t be the tremendous success it is.
We have met new friends through this seminar, learned more about the community, met staff at Eldredge we didn’t know and even found the right tiles for our bathroom renovation while we were there.
Although we are unable to attend this up and coming seminar, we look forward to the next, and the next, and so on. Thank you again for all you do. It surely does not go unnoticed. See you soon.
A Personal Journey with Art
Join Us for a Free Seminar
Thursday, Sept. 15th @ 10:30 a.m.
Location: 627 Route 1, York, Maine (in the Eldredge Building)
Mary P. Harding has been a curator of contemporary art exhibi ons at Old York’s George Marshall Store Gallery, a property of the Museums of Old York, for the last 20 years. She will talk about how she goes about finding, choosing and exhibiting work by many of the region’s established and rising artists. Her presentation will be illustrated by slides.
Mary P. Harding is a 1975 graduate of Brown University, and has all her life been passionate about art. After graduation, she was an exhibit designer for Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH, and for the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, New York. She has also served as director of the Barn Gallery of Ogunquit, ME, for four years.
Mary has been an independent art consultant, specializing in regional contemporary art since 1996.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about a most accomplished and talented, local art curator’s work and journey.
Light refreshments will be served.
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Growing Orchids
Join Us for a Free Seminar
Saturday, June 11th @ 10:30 a.m.
Location: 627 Route 1, York, Maine (in the Eldredge Building)
Bob Cleveland, a charter member and a two term President of Maine Orchid Society, will be our presenter. He is currently the American Orchid Society’s representative to the Maine Orchid Society.
His interest in orchids started in the mid-1970’s when he and his wife had an orchid that wouldn’t bloom and he discovered that artificial lighting was the answer.
Bob now grows many rare species of orchids and has developed several of his own hybrids. Some of them have been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society in England. He has also won seven national awards for plants in his collection.
Bob is active in both the Maine and New Hampshire Orchid Societies and markets his plants at Orchid Shows throughout New England and online. He will also bring some of his orchids to sell at his presentation.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from an expert, who has been growing orchids for over 40 years!
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Organic Land Care
Join Us for a Free Seminar
Thursday, May 12, 2016 @ 10:30 a.m.
Location: 627 Route 1, York, Maine (in the Eldredge Building)
John Bochert, the Eldredge’s Lawn & Garden Specialist, with 30 years experience in green and organic food industries will present this seminar.
John will discuss the importance of using organic techniques and products in all aspects of home and landscaping from vegetable gardens to lawns to trees and shrubs.
This “systems based” approach to land care recognizes the critical role played by the vast array of micro-organisms present in healthy soil. When the proper attention is paid, the result is a safer, healthier, more resilient, and less costly landscape.
John looks forward to introducing new products. There will also be time for questions.
Do not miss this informative and educational seminar.
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