Gardening Speaker Series

Art will share his garden wisdom gained over 44 years in the business. He will identify not only invasive and aggressive bushes, plants and trees but advise a management level to suit your needs. Do you love it enough to keep it? How much time and effort does it take to control? Plant sale control and resale ethics? Do we receive good advice from Garden centre's, big box stores and friends? Art will answer all your questions. 

About The Presenter: Art Vanden Enden

Art Vanden Enden is a retired senior executive from the Independent Garden Centre Sector. His family owned and operated a greenhouse business in Ajax growing hothouse tomatoes   He has worked for 44 years primarily in retail operations for one of Canada's largest garden centres. In retirement, Art is only holding back a bit.  He is volunteering with Landscape Ontario representing the Garden Centre Sector Group. He is also involved with the CNLA with Garden Centres Canada as well as Communities in Bloom. Art is an instructor for pre-apprentices in landscaping. Two areas of interest for Art are Training new entrants into the horticultural sector as well as Garden Centre product sustainability, specifically addressing alternatives to invasive plants. 

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A pollinator garden is full of surprises. Pollinators are animals that move pollen between plants. Bees, butterflies, beetles, flies, hummingbirds, bats, small rodents and lizards. Meet the good guys and sometime the bad guys and how to keep them happy. This picture packed presentation will get you all abuzz for pollinators. 

About The Presenter: Helen Battersby

Helen Battersby loves talking about gardens, and sharing ideas illustrated by pictures from years of garden visits in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

A frequent speaker in the GTA and Southern Ontario, her online presentations have reached appreciative audiences from the west to the east coasts. In addition, for 20 years as a Toronto Master Gardener, writing presentations was her favourite volunteer activity, along with delivering them – in person and online – for libraries, clubs, business and social groups, at the Toronto Botanical Garden, and at Canada Blooms.

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The Importance of Food Security. Carson talks about the disruptions of the global supply chain. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical access to sufficient safe and nutritious food. Now is not the time to take this for granted! 

About The Presenter: Carson Arthur 

Presented by Carson Arthur, author and entrepreneur, his sold-out book Garden Designs for Outdoor Living and has a new book called Vegetables, Chickens and Bees where he teaches new gardeners how to grow food and become more sustainable in their own outdoor spaces. In 2019, Carson opened his namesake market in Prince Edward County. With a focus on growing food, organic principals, and products that make gardening accessible to everyone, Carson’s Garden + Market has quickly become a destination for discerning gardeners.  

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