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2016-2017 Programs

Unless otherwise noted, programs are open to the public and begin at 1:30 PM on Wednesdays at the Topsham Public Library (25 Foreside Road).  The public is welcome to join members beforehand at 12:00 noon at the bring-your-own lunch and business meeting.  Desserts and coffee are provided by the Club.

Details of off-site programs, including arrangements for car pooling, will be announced closer to the program date.

For more information, please send us a message by clicking here.

2016 Programs

 April 13 – Annual Meeting & Pot Luck Lunch  (no guest speaker).  For more information,  click here.

May 18 - (Note: Third Wednesday, not second)​  Field trip to McLaughlin Garden & Homestead in South Paris, Maine, with optional lunch at Maurice's.  Guided tour begins at 10:00 AM.  For more information, click here.

June 8 ​- "Bats of Maine" with Logan Parker, Engagement Coordinator for Maine Lakes Resource Center in Belgrade Lakes, Maine. For more information, click here. 

July 13 -  Tour of members' gardens in Brunswick for members and their guests, starting at 10:00 AM, with brown-bag lunch and business meeting on Cumberland Street.

August 10 - Field trip to Rex Beisel's & Craig Cote's Barred Owl Daylilies in Otisfield, Maine, with optional self guided visit to Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Maine.  
For more information, click here.

September 14 - "Heirloom Apples" with John Bunker of Fedco Seeds.  For more information, click here.

October 12 -"Vermiculture: What, Where, How and Why" with Jock Robie of Mainely Worm Bins.  Door Prize of a worm bin with worms.  For more information, click here.

November 9 - "A walk through the Maine State Museum with a botanist’s eye” with
Dr. Paula Work & Jennifer Dube of the Maine State Museum in Augusta. For more information, click here.


December 14 - Members-only Christmas Pot-luck Party and Auction

2017 Programs

January 11 - "Cathance River Education Alliance" with CREA Executive Director, Matt Dubel.   For more information, click here.

February 8 - "Lyme Disease Prevention" with Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education (MLDSE) co-founders, Paula Jackson Jones & Angele Rice.  Click here for more information about the program and click here for a Lyme Disease fact sheet.

March 8 - "Hardy Succulents and Rock Garden Plants" with Mark Brandhorst of Halls Pond Gardens in South Paris, Maine.  
For more information, click here.

April 5     (Note: First Wednesday, not second Wednesday) (Also, program will begin at Noon; followed by light refreshments and Annual Meeting from 1:00-2:00)
"Multiple Strategies for Organizing Gardening Information
" with Jean Potuchek, followed by Annual Meeting with Installation of Officers and Business Meeting.  For more information, click here.

May - Medomak District Annual Meeting on May 1, so no monthly program meeting

June 14 - "18th Century Landscaping at 'Montpelier,' the Knox Museum in
 Thomaston, Maine"  ​(Program starts at 12:00 Noon.  Please check back for details.)
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