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Saturday, March 17 Sally Tyvser “Herbs – Nature’s Own Pharmacy” Join Sally for a fun and lively look at growing, using, storing and enjoying these timeless plants. She will talk about a multitude of creative and useful things you can do with herbs. You will come away with ideas on how to cut calories and refresh your TYVSER home and learn about some of the therapeutic uses of a variety of herbs. Sally has been a Master Gardener for more than 20 years and loves to share her knowledge and experience growing and using herbs. Jeanette Stehr-Green “Growing Caneberries on the North Olympic Peninsula” A Clallam County Master Gardener since 2003, Jeanette has been growing caneberries for more than 10 years. In this introduction to growing caneberries, Jeanette will talk about selecting, planting and caring for STEHR-GREEN raspberries and blackberries on the North Olympic Peninsula. She will help local gardeners make sense of the general types of raspberries and blackberries available, identify varieties recommended for Western Washington and discuss how varieties can be selected so as to extend the fresh berry season. She will describe the ideal planting site (e.g., sun exposure, soil and temperature) for raspberries and blackberries as well as routine pruning and trellising practices. With this information, local gardeners will be prepared to select, plant and grow caneberries and enjoy fresh raspberries and blackberries harvested from their own berry patch.
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Bob Cain “Wine Making with Fruits and Vegetables” It’s fun, it’s easy and anyone can do it at home! Master Gardener Bob Cain has been growing vegetables since his early teens in Scotland and as an adult in Ireland, Colorado and Washington. Now he creates homemade wines as an alternative to root-cellars and other storage methods for keeping fruits and
vegetables over the winter. His presentation will include the basic elements of fermentation, selection and preparation of vegetables, flowers and fruits, legal constraints, plants to avoid, equipment required, as well as bottling, aging and final analysis. All steps are illustrated using actual pictures from wine making at home. Bob was named 2009 Master Gardener Intern of the year in Clallam County and delights in sharing his knowledge and experience. Hank Gibson “The Edible Landscape” Join Hank for an engaging and informative discussion about the harmonious integration of edible plants into all areas of your yard and garden. Hank’s presentation will introduce methods for successfully creating sustainable edible perennial GIBSON and annual food systems on even the most challenging sites. He will acquaint you with dependable, productive edible plant selections for our bio-region, as well as some uncommon selections worth consideration. Environmental concepts will include no-till gardening and the soil food web, guild planting and food forests, vertical gardening, microclimates and rainwater harvesting. Hank is a certified permaculturist, a registered architect, landscape designer and Master Gardener. He is enthusiastic about creating sustainable regenerative homesteads, which he defines as the integration of an adaptive regional architecture, traditional skills, appropriate technology and ecologically balanced gardens which are productive sources of food plants and medicinal herbs.
Featured Presentation: Carol Miles “Growing Tomatoes in Western Washington” Carol’s presentation will cover how to grow tomatoes in western Washington, including variety selection, heirloom varieties, pruning and using plastic tunnels to increase heat units. She MILES also will discuss tomato grafting as a method of increasing disease and temperature tolerance. Carol is an associate professor at Washington State University and is the vegetable specialist at the WSU Mount Vernon Northwest Washington Research and Extension Center. She specializes in vegetable crop production and has a strong interest in alternative crops
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Sunday, March 18 Larry Lang “Lasagna Gardening” Do you want garden soil that is rich, crumbly and easy to work? How about soil that retains moisture and requires no digging? Too good to be true? Come listen as Larry shares his experience with lasagna gardening (also known as sheet mulching). He will show you, LANG step by step, how to create a garden that is less work-intensive than traditional gardening methods, results in nutrient-rich soil and uses materials that already may be at hand or obtainable at little cost. Larry’s first lasagna garden .... “was completed in little more than a morning’s work and the results, after one growing season, were beyond my wildest imagination.” Larry is a longtime Master Gardener eager to share his experience in building, planting and maintaining lasagna beds for both vegetables and flowers.
Featured Presentation: Bill Thorness “Heirloom Vegetables: Grow and Share Our Edible Heritage” What was Thomas Jefferson’s favorite lettuce? Which fabulous old tomato varieties will do well in our climate? Bill Thorness, author of “Edible Heirlooms: Heritage Vegetables for THORNESS the Maritime Garden,” will share heirloom photos, stories and good growing techniques to get the most flavor and nutrition from your edible garden. He will talk about where to get heirloom seeds and how to perpetuate this legacy. He will bring heirloom vegetable seeds to share and invites the audience to bring seeds as well. After the talk, he will sign copies of his book. Bill is a writer and gardener who’s been doing both in Seattle since the mid-1980s. He writes about gardening for many regional publications, including The Seattle Times and the PCC Sound Consumer. He has held many roles at Seattle Tilth, serving as board president, publications editor and instructor. He also wrote the bestselling bicycling guidebook “Biking Puget Sound: 50 Rides from Olympia to the San Juans.” He is a member of the Garden Writers Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. See his work at www.billthorness.com.
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Soroptimist International of Sequim, chartered in May 1947, is part of an international volunteer organization comprised of business and professional women whose mission is to improve the lives of women and girls in local communities and throughout the world. Loosely translated, Soroptimist means “best for women,” and that’s what Soroptimists aim to be: women at their best, helping other women be their best. The majority of Soroptimist’s work is done at the local club level. Soroptimist International of the Americas has more than 1,400 clubs in 19 countries and territories. Clubs assess the needs of their communities and then undertake projects that will best fill those needs. Plants need nourishment to grow, and in the big picture, money is the nourishment that allows Soroptimist International of Sequim to do its work. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the annual Gala
Garden Show is its main fundraiser of the year. The first show was in 1999 and has grown to be the biggest garden show on the Olympic Peninsula. This year at the show Soroptimist International of Sequim will be offering garden hats for sale. These are handmade by members of the club. The hats are stylish and while keeping the sun at bay, make working in the garden more pleasant. They also make a great gift. The money Soroptimist International of Sequim raises funds local awards such as the Women’s Opportunity Award and the Violet Richardson Award. The money also funds 11 scholarships, plus donations to First Teacher, Healthy Families of Clallam County — including Rose House (a shelter for victims of domestic violence), Sequim Community Aid and Boys & Girls Club — just to name a few. Club members also contribute to the Mujeres de Maiz Opportunity Founda-
We are stepping out and making our own Garden Walk this year. The Garden Walk has been a featured entrance area to our Garden Show for many years and for the first time we are going to make it our own. For the 2012 Garden Walk we are creating a 3-D scene of the featured artwork for this year’s show that was provided by Julie Peterson. Tim and Kate Creasey of Unique Designs Welding and Happy 2 Be Stampin’ built and prepared the theater flats that will be used for the background imagery and the stands that will hold them erect. Fred Manzer, one of our “Soropti-Dudes,” has built a special chair that is one of the props and Karalee Monroe, who owns Picket Fence in Quilcene, has donated the use of the picket fence and table we needed to complete the scene. Craig Robinson is pained the background which is 12 feet wide by 8 feet tall. Props are being collected from various members and it all will be put together to make a grand entrance to the show. Those visiting the show are encouraged to bring their cameras and have their pictures taken in the scene. tion, an organization helping women in Chiapas, Mexico, which was started by several Sequim women. Most recently Soroptimist International of Sequim has partnered with the two Soroptimist
clubs in Port Angeles to sponsor the first Girls Circle (gender specific programs for adolescent girls to promote resiliency and self-esteem) in Clallam County. They are busy women, living their mission.
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2 p.m. – “Wine Making with Fruits and Vegetables” with Bob Cain 3 p.m. – “The Edible Landscape” with Hank Gibson
10 a.m. – “Herbs – Nature’s Own Pharmacy” with Sally Tyvser 11 a.m. – “Growing Caneberries on the North Olympic Peninsula” Sunday, March 18 with Jeanette Stehr-Green 12:30 p.m. – “Lasagna Gardening” with Larry Lang 12:30 p.m. – Featured Presentation: Carol Miles, Ph.D. – “Growing 1:30 p.m. – Featured Presentation: Bill Thorness – “Heirloom Tomatoes in Western Washington” Vegetables: Grow and Share Our Edible Heritage”
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By Patricia Morrison Coate This year ’s featured artist, Julie Peterson of Moses Lake, is a relative newcomer to the Gala Garden Show, only learning about it online and displaying as a first-time vendor in 2011. Her nature-inspired oils, painted in the traditional realism style, certainly caught the attention of this year’s art selection committee and Peterson was commissioned to create an original artwork, which she titled “The Potting Table,” to be featured on posters, in advertising and for the show’s program. “This is just a great opportunity,” Peterson said, noting that the original framed 16-inch by 20-inch oil on canvas will be auctioned off to support Soroptimist programs. She’ll also donate 20 percent of the cost of other works featuring “The Potting Table” to Soroptimists. “The one thing that impressed me is that the Soroptimists donate a lot of money and artists look for ways to give back — and this is a way to give back.” A Washington native, Peterson said art has been a lifelong passion, but one that she had to put on hold as a career until 1996. She is a self-taught artist and has done shows in Arizona, Oklahoma, Colorado, and of course, Washington. “This is truly what I really like to do — to paint what I see in rural settings,” Peterson said. “Everything inspires me in landscapes and customers seem to think I’m doing OK. I do a lot of sky in my paintings, the bigger the better. Traditional realism is not abstract, so when you look at my art, you know what you’re seeing.” She paints everything from panoramic vistas to tiny hummingbirds sipping nectar. “I would have to say 95 percent of my subject matter is taken with my camera, but some were inspired by people with requests. The birds I would have to say are the most difficult to photograph, so I use (bird book) reference photos with flowers from my garden.” Peterson’s website at www.julie-
Above: Julie Peterson poses with “The Potting Table,” with more of her works behind her. At right: “Hummer with Fuschias”
peterson.net displays a range of painting categories, including garden scenes, birds, the inland Northwest, mountains, landscapes, street scenes and flowers. “I like the intensity and dimension of oils because I can build up so many layers,” she said. Each piece of work has many hours devoted to the layering of paint, which gives each its intensely rich and brilliant color. Peterson concluded by saying she purposely keeps her works small so they are affordable and invites everyone to come meet her at the Gala Garden Show.
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Avid gardeners will want to purchase one of Soroptimists’ custom-made garden hats. These colorful hats come in wide variety of designs and are suitable for any outdoor activity to protect your face, ears and neck from the sun. They also have a place for your sunglasses. Come and choose one while attending the garden show. Hats are $23. Vogue Pattern Company gave permission to use its hat pattern #7600, designed by Patricia Underwood.
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The Soroptimists International of Sequim Club was formed in 1947. Since then we have served the community and our neighbors through the many different programs we sponsor and support. In addition to the women who dedicated hours of work to organize the 14th Annual Gala Garden Show, the following members also have made cash contributions. Many of them are business owners and appreciate your support. Andrea Alstrup Cathy Angel, Angel Farm Amanda Beitzel Jan Chapman Kate Creasey, Independent Stampin’ Up demonstrator Kathleen DeJong Monica Dixon, Cookin’ Doc Rose Jaeger, Henery’s Garden Center, Port Townsend Larry & Linda Klinefelter Jane Manzer Jeanne Martin, CPA Kathy Purcell, Computer Solutions Sandy Reed Peg Rinker Tracy Russell Barb Thompson, Dark Star Fisheries
Dr. Gary Lange Leah Tuttle ~ Cole’s Jewelers Dave and Patsy Mattingly The Red Rooster Grocery William Bailey ~ Bell Street Insurance Leonard Lewicki ~ Ameriprise Financial Kate Creasey ~ Independent Stampin’ Up Demonstrator
Ramona Whitson has been drawing on her imagination and dedication to recycling to create whimsical yard and garden art and jewelry for the past 18 years when she created Whitson Design in Tacoma. “When I look at anything, I ask myself how could I incorporate that into what I do. I like to mix upcycling — using new things — with recycled items. Almost everything gets used and made into something else.” Whitson uses her soldering, welding
and artistic skills to create dragonflies from old utensils and beads, crosses from utensils and old costume jewelry, spoon flower plant stakes, butterfly garden stakes and whimsical jewelry. She also incorporates beads, glass and china mosaics into her art. “It’s beautiful recycling,” Whitson said. Stop by her booth at the Gala Garden Show and see her many imaginative pieces.
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Soroptimists are women at their best helping other women be their best and they do it through improving the lives of women and girls in our local community and throughout the world. The proceeds from the 14th annual Soroptimist Gala Garden Show primarily support our award and scholarship program and recognition to youth in the local Sequim community.
Women’s Opportunity Award (WOA) — $1,000. Award is advertised in October. Applications are due Dec. 15. The WOA was established in 1972 to aid the mature woman to enter or re-enter the job market or to further her skills and training to upgrade her employment status. This is a $1,000 award and is available to women who are head of household and have financial responsibility for their dependents.
Girl of the Month (GOM) — Soroptimist Girls of the Month are honored October – May each school year. Girls of the Month are selected not just on achievements in academics, but also in recognition of endeavors in service, citizenship or athletics. This is not a monetary award. The girl and her parents/guardian are invited to our club meeting to be recognized and awarded a certificate.
Vocational-Technical Award – $1,000. Award is advertised in April. Applications are due May 15. The Vocational-Technical Award is given to a student enrolled in a non-degree program leading to a certificate or license. Such programs normally are found in vocational technical schools or two-year community colleges. The $1,000 award is used for tuition and/ or needed supplies.
Violet Richardson Award — First Place: $500 to the volunteer, $250 to the organization. Second Place: $250 to the volunteer. Award is advertised i n S e p t e m b e r. A p p l i c a t i o n s a re due Dec. 1. The Violet Richardson Award was established to recognize outstanding contributions by young women which improve the quality of life of their fellow citizens. High school students in the Sequim School District are eligible to apply for this merit award, which is not based on academic achievement. Students must demonstrate a commitment to improving the lives of others and involvement in family, school activities and service in the community.
Continuing Education Scholarship – $1,000. Scholarships are advertised in June. Applications must be postmarked by July 15. There are three Continuing Education Scholarships awarded each year. These awards are for $1,000 and applicants are solicited through the newspapers and Peninsula College in June. High School Scholarships – $1,000. Recipients are selected in May. In the past we have given seven scholarships to graduating high school seniors. Recipients are chosen based on criteria consisting of academic achievement, community involvement, grade-point average, goals and financial need as set forth in their scholarship notebooks. The awards are to be used for tuition and fees at post-secondary institutions.
Join us and and meet some of the WIN Girls at the 2012 Gala Garden Show! The Women in Networks (WIN), a Sequim High School program for girls, is a partnership between Soroptimist International of Sequim and Sequim High School. Proud to begin its 15th year, more than 1,400 Sequim High School girls have benefited from programs, field trips and camaraderie since 1997. WIN was founded to increase educational and career opportunities for local young women, with emphasis on nontraditional options. WIN is not a club; there are
no officers, dues or fees. WIN students play an important role in the annual Gala Garden Show by assisting SI members in the Garden Café, as well as delivering lunch orders to hungry vendors! Their smiling faces and positive attitudes brighten the event for all of us! WIN Mission Statement: Empowering young women through the exploration of nontraditional careers and education … opening WINdows to the future! See www.winprogram.org for more information.
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This could be yours! Garden aficionados can take a break from all the activities and have breakfast and/or lunch in The Soroptimist Garden Cafe. Those desiring breakfast can choose from cinnamon rolls or soufflés – ham with cheddar and Swiss, or spinach with cheddar and blue cheese. Lunch will satisfy most any palate with garden vegetable soup (vegetarian) or gumbo and sausage soup. In honor of St. Patrick’s day the Café will feature hot corned beef on rye sandwiches. If hot corned beef is not your style, chicken salad and egg salad sandwiches will be available. If you are a light eater, sample the Asian chicken salad. The Café also will be serving the usual refreshments of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, ice tea, sodas and water and an array of cookies to satisfy the sweet tooth. Live music will be provided by various local musicians, volunteering their time and talent.
The raffle drawing for an artistically painted Adirondack chair has been part of the Gala Garden Show for several years as a fundraiser for Soroptimist programs. Chris Blendermann painted this year’s chair. Blendermann received a bachelor’s degree in art history from California State University at Fullerton. She and her husband, Walt, moved to Sequim in 1990 after they both retired from Redondo Beach, Calif. During the 1990s, she was active in the local AARP/IRS Tax-Aide Program. She always has been interested and supported the local arts in Sequim and as a docent volunteer, board member, and past president of the Friends of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center board. Her art projects typically are combined with decorating in their home. Raffle tickets are $3 and are available during the garden show.
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By Patricia Morrison Coate The Airport Garden Center has been a fixture in west Port Angeles for 35 years. Since its beginnings in 1977, owners Betsy and Mark Matthews’ goal has been to provide a diverse selection of high quality, yet reasonably priced plants and supplies. Today, the goal remains the same. “We are a general garden center with a nursery and a little bit of everything, focusing on quality and value,” Betsy Matthews said on a sunny February afternoon with a scent of spring in the air. “We belong to large buying groups so we’re able to get things some (centers) might not be able to get. Then we’re able to pass the savings along to our customers and keep our prices reasonable.” Even though Matthews said customers praise the center ’s layout for ease in shopping, she’s always striving to improve. “Every year we try to mix things up with better displays because we’re seeing more and more people wanting to visualize their gardens. Also, over the past few years (interest in) vegetables and fruits has increased enormously, so we’ve focused on all kinds of edibles and all types of gardening, including supplies for hydroponics and greenhouses,” Matthews said. The center still offers bagged feed, hay and bedding for farm animals plus livestock supplies, including tack, and wide selection of electrical fencing supplies, gates and posts. The store also carries a complete line of pet products from collars, vaccinations, toys and beds to top-of the-line pet foods. Every February, Airport Garden Center staff start planning the scenario for its two adjoining booths — it’s quite a project because Matthews fills the company’s delivery truck with products from trees to small potted plants. During the interview, Matthews and horticulturalist Autumn Washburn bounced display ideas off one another and said in tandem that this year’s entry will feature edibles and year-round gardening. “We will have large amounts of herbs and a ‘fruit salad’ tree that’s an espaliered three-tiered apple tree,” Matthews said, “plus EarthBoxes, self-watering patio container gardens, and click-together raised
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beds that can be set up in a matter of 10 minutes.” Washburn said they’ll also set up an organic garden and have for sale lots of heirloom seed varieties of vegetables, including a tomato mix for the Olympic Peninsula. Airport Garden Center also gives back to its community and last year became a sponsor for the Port Angeles Victory Gardens, supplying seeds and planting blueberry bushes, grape vines and an array of herbs. At right: Autumn Washburn displays a snap-together raised garden bed that will be for sale at the Gala Garden Show.
Airport Garden Center owner Betsy Matthews is proud to offer a large array of heirloom vegetable seeds.
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