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SUMMARY:Ask a Master Gardener
DESCRIPTION:Join UVM Extension Master Gardeners (EMGs) and local volunteers in the library and town campus gardens this summer. Learn about sustainable garden practices\, native plantings\, and discuss the garden and landscape issues you’re facing. We’ll work in and tour the gardens with a specific focus each meeting. EMGs are dedicated to sharing science-based best practices and resources with the public. Email stevebudington@gmail.com with questions and to receive details about the sessions. For this session come prepared with your own gardening questions\, adventures\, vision\, etc.\, and gain insight from your EMG fellows. 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/ask-a-master-gardener-2/
CATEGORIES:Gardening
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SUMMARY:Ask a Master Gardener
DESCRIPTION:Join UVM Extension Master Gardeners (EMGs) and local volunteers in the library and town campus gardens this summer. Learn about sustainable garden practices\, native plantings\, and discuss the garden and landscape issues you’re facing. We’ll work in and tour the gardens with a specific focus each meeting. EMGs are dedicated to sharing science-based best practices and resources with the public. Email stevebudington@gmail.com with questions and to receive details about the sessions. For this session come prepared with your own gardening questions\, adventures\, vision\, etc.\, and gain insight from your EMG fellows. 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/ask-a-master-gardener/
CATEGORIES:Gardening,Library Gardens
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T090000
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SUMMARY:Weeds: Cutting vs. Pulling
DESCRIPTION:Join UVM Extension Master Gardeners and local volunteers in the library and town campus gardens this summer. Learn about sustainable garden practices\, native plantings\, and discuss the garden and landscape issues you’re facing. We’ll work in and tour the gardens with a specific focus each meeting. EMG’s are dedicated to sharing science-based best practices and resources with the public. Email stevebudington@gmail.com with questions and to receive details about the sessions.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/weeds-cutting-vs-pulling/
CATEGORIES:Gardening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T090000
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SUMMARY:Cool Season Sedges & Groundcovers
DESCRIPTION:Join UVM Extension Master Gardeners and local volunteers in the library and town campus gardens this summer. Learn about sustainable garden practices\, native plantings\, and discuss the garden and landscape issues you’re facing. We’ll work in and tour the gardens with a specific focus each meeting. EMG’s are dedicated to sharing science-based best practices and resources with the public. Email stevebudington@gmail.com with questions and to receive details about the sessions.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/cool-season-sedges-groundcovers/
CATEGORIES:Gardening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250503T100000
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SUMMARY:Arbor Day Tree Planting Demonstration with Master Gardener Steve Budington
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a tree planting demo and Q-and-A from master gardener and project lead on the town’s garden extension plan\, Steve Budington.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/arbor-day-tree-planting-demonstration-with-master-gardener-steve-budington/
CATEGORIES:Gardening,Tree Planting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T183000
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: Ecological Gardening with Charlie Nardozzi
DESCRIPTION:As climate change impacts gardening\, it’s essential to adapt our practices to grow healthier vegetables\, flowers\,and fruits\, and to maintain thriving yards in an environmentally friendly way. In this talk\, gardening expert and host of Vermont Public Radio’s All Things Gardening\, Charlie Nardozzi will explore natural soil-building techniques\, methods to support pollinators and beneficial insects\, sustainable lawn care alternatives\, and the benefits of native plants for birds and the environment. This program is presented in partnership with Shelburne’s Climate & Energy Committee.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-ecological-gardening-with-charlie-nardozzi/
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Gardening,Living with Climate Chaos Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T110000
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SUMMARY:Spring Cut-Back and Pruning at the Pierson Library Gardens (Session 2)
DESCRIPTION:It takes a community to keep our library gardens thriving and looking beautiful for the town\, and we’re deeply grateful for your support! Join us as we marvel at the new growth and lend a hand for the spring cutback and pruning in the gardens. Feel free to bring your secateurs\, garden shears\, hand sickle\, rake\, tarp\, and/or trug if you have them. As always\, we welcome your gardening questions\, expertise\, and stories! This volunteer workday is coordinated by Steve Budington\, UVM Master Gardener Extension Project Lead.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/spring-cut-back-and-pruning-at-the-pierson-library-gardens-session-2/
CATEGORIES:Gardening,Library Gardens
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SUMMARY:Spring Cut-Back and Pruning at the Pierson Library Gardens (Session 1)
DESCRIPTION:It takes a community to keep our library gardens thriving and looking beautiful for the town\, and we’re deeply grateful for your support! Join us as we marvel at the new growth and lend a hand for the spring cutback and pruning in the gardens. Feel free to bring your secateurs\, garden shears\, hand sickle\, rake\, tarp\, and/or trug if you have them. As always\, we welcome your gardening questions\, expertise\, and stories! This volunteer workday is coordinated by Steve Budington\, UVM Master Gardener Extension Project Lead.
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/spring-cut-back-and-pruning-at-the-pierson-library-gardens-session-1/
CATEGORIES:Gardening,Library Gardens
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T183000
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: Planting for Ecological Benefit & Garden Plans for the Shelburne Town Offices Pocket Park
DESCRIPTION:Are you wondering what’s happening with the former pond garden at the Shelburne Town Offices? Are you curious about how to bring ecological benefit to your home landscape? Are you looking for a dose of environmental optimism? In this public talk\, UVM painting professor and landscape designer Steve Budington shares the planting design for Spring ’25 renovations at the Shelburne Town Offices pocket park. Inspired by meadow and shrubland landscapes\, the new gardens feature naturalistic and ecological gardening practices meant to benefit and nourish humans\, wildlife\, and soil. As part of our Climate Chaos series put on in partnership with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee\, Budington shares how the landscapes of our home and built environments can support positive ecological change. 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-planting-for-ecological-benefit-garden-plans-for-the-shelburne-town-offices-pocket-park/
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Gardening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T083000
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SUMMARY:Ecological Fall Garden Clean-Up at the Pierson Library Gardens
DESCRIPTION:Led by UVM extension master gardener Steve Budington\, this hands-on event will teach you how to balance plant removal and retention to benefit both your garden and local wildlife. Bring your favorite gardening tools and help us maintain a more ecologically friendly perennial garden! 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/ecological-fall-garden-clean-up-at-the-pierson-library-gardens/
CATEGORIES:Gardening,Library Gardens
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T193000
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SUMMARY:Living with Climate Chaos: Gardening with Native Plants with Charlotte Albers
DESCRIPTION:The next talk in our Climate Chaos series sees us exploring regional gardening in the face of increasingly extreme weather fluctuations. Flooding\, erosion\, drought–little is off the table any longer for the local green thumbs. Come learn about tough\, resilient native plants that can help solve problems at your home and enhance local biodiversity. Charlotte Albers\, a landscape designer who created the master plan for the Pierson Library campus\, will highlight low maintenance favorites including many selections around our building. This event is presented in partnership with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee and the UVM Master Gardener Extension Program. 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/living-with-climate-chaos-gardening-with-native-plants-with-charlotte-albers/
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Gardening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Thursday Lecture Series: Composting 101
DESCRIPTION:This Second Thursday Lecture we’re reprising a hands-on-earth talk from last month\, so if you missed it then check it out now! Learn how to create your own compost pile\, the difference between backyard and industrial composting\, and how to avoid the various pitfalls in this informative presentation with Kat Moody from the Chittenden Solid Waste District. 
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/second-thursday-lecture-series-composting-101/
LOCATION:Pierson Library\, 5376 Shelburne Rd.\, Shelburne\, VT\, 05482\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gardening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T180000
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CREATED:20240401T045809Z
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SUMMARY:Composting 101 
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to create your own compost pile\, the difference between backyard and industrial composting\, and how to avoid the various pitfalls in this informative presentation with Kat Moody from the Chittenden Solid Waste District.   \n  
URL:https://piersonlibrary.org/event/composting-101/
CATEGORIES:Gardening
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