Queen Anne’s County Master Gardener Newsletter
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Coordinators
Corner
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Educational
Opportunities
3-8
Bay-Wise +
Rain Garden
9
Volunteer
Opportunities
10
Natural Enemies
11
MG’s Write
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Book Review
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Spring Events
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Pollinator Series
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Janet Draper Talk
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Calendars
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Got Plants?
Divide + Conquer:
Its that time of year we can all start uncovering the new growth and dividing those
roots to make room for lush plantings. With the Spring Master Gardener Plant Sale
around the corner on May 7th, I encourage you all to see how you can donate a few
plants. We will accept shrubs, grasses, perennials, ground covers, and vines– natives or
non-native, but please avoid anything invasive. Also, if you have one or a few too many
vegetable + herb seedlings succeeding we would graciously take the extras.
Plant + Presentation:
-When replanting, ask yourself if you would buy this plant at a sale?
-Do not skimp on soil, make sure the plant looks healthy and fairly promising!
-Empty pots and blank plant labels are available at the extension office, please call or
email before picking up.
-Make sure your plant is free of weeds or dead foliage.
-Make sure you have labeled your plant with the bare minimum information:
common name (+variety or bloom color)
sun requirements (shade, part sun, full sun)
size (ht and width of spread)
Drop + Return:
I will again be accepting plants to be dropped off at the
office starting Monday, May 2nd. If bringing the day of the
sale, please no later than 8:30am. Any plants left over after
the sale will be donated if not collected back from their
original donator.
Planning + Volunteering:
Meeting—Monday, April 11th
10am at the Extension Office
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COORDINATOR’S CORNER
Annual Training Day Bus
If interested in taking a bus to Annual Training Day on Thursday, May 26th please contact me by
Monday, May 9th or sooner mgarret1@umd.edu. We have opened this opportunity up to all
MGs on the Eastern Shore.
Target rate $30-$35 per person
Departure location: Kent Island Park-n-Ride near K-Mart
Approximate departure time 7:30am, approximate return time 7:30pm
*Training Day Programs run from 9:30am to 6pm
April’s Monthly Meeting– Committee Survey
Around the room there will be large poster size papers for all of you to write suggestions on
how and where we can increase our outcomes in the community as Master Gardeners. Please
feel free to anonymously share your thoughts, ideas, and actions.
| Bay-Wise | Pollinators | GIEI | Youth Gardeners | Harborview | Talisman | Plant Clinics |
NEW Class of 2016 Interns
Please welcome the seven newest MGs into the program. They will be required to volunteer
five hours in each of the following areas as part of their first 40 [Bay-Wise, Pollinators, GIEI,
Community Gardens, Youth Gardeners, Plant Clinic, Newsletter, Public Info Booths]. Please
reach out and help them root their way through!
THIRD WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH 9:30AM TO 11:30AM
Tilghman Terrace, Centreville
Monthly Meeting Host Sign-up (NO HOST NO FOOD)
*Still need helpers for all those who have volunteered thus far!
THE
April 20th
Cathy Tengwall
May18th
Nick Stoer
June
Summer Picnic—Host Location?
July 20th
Laura Klinger
August
No Meeting—4H Fair
September 21st
Jerry Brust
October 19th
Liz Hammond
November 16th
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December 14th
Holiday Luncheon
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$74.00 Early Registration (March 14-April 30) includes
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Keynote presentation with Sara Via
Concurrent sessions with 29 presentations to choose from
Plenary presentation with Claudia West
Master Gardener Expo and Trade Show
Master Naturalist Class Reunion and Recogntion Ceremony
Continental breakfast and choice of four lunch options
Free parking
Opportunities to share experiences with over 900 enthusiastic volunteers across the state
For a complete overview of the conference details, please download the
conference brochure.
Registration / Payment Options
The Annual Training Conference is open to all Master Gardeners and Master Naturalists.
1. Register for the event online! Go to https://atc2016.eventbrite.com
This method is encouraged. Secure payments can be made by credit card if registering online.
2. Register by mail! Download the 18th Annual Training Conference brochure.
The brochure includes a paper registration form for individuals who prefer to register offline and/
or using a check. The registration form in the conference brochure can also be filled in
electronically and emailed to Alicia at aliciafb@umd.edu
Need Assistance?
If you need assistance to register for or participate in the Annual Training Conference, contact
Alicia Bembenek at aliciafb@umd.edu or 410-531-1754.
Master Gardener Branded Merchandise
We are happy to announce that Nightmare Graphics is our vendor this year for Master Gardener
branded merchandise! They are hosting an online store which will remain open from March
14th-April 30th. Please go to https://umdmg.itemorder.com to browse merchandise
selections.
Items include polo shirts, denim shirts, fleece vests, fleece jackets, hoodies, t-shirts, aprons, tote
bags, caps, cinch packs, tool bags, and water bottles! You won't be disappointed!
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Educational Opportunities
Mt. Cuba Center’s Spring/Summer 2016
Program Guide is in circulation! If you haven’t
seen it yet, you can view it online.
For this spring/summer season, we are continuing to offer a
10% discount to Master Gardeners on our Ecological
Gardening Certificate classes. Take advantage of this offer
by entering the promotional code MGSPR16 when you
enroll in a certificate course.
Questions about registration can be directed to our
Education Registrar, Jeanette Zipf, at 302-239-8807.
Update on the Bay at Horn Point – What’s New?
You are invited to “Chesapeake Bay Science 101”
Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. April 7, 14, 21 & 28
2020 Horns Point Rd, Cambridge, MD 21613, USA
Learn current information about:
April 7th -Genetic tools to restore marine animals in the Bay, Dr. Louis Plough
April 14th -Travels to oyster farms and new research on aquaculture, Anna Priester
April 21st -Partnering with Caroline County farmers to reduce nutrients, Dr. Tom Fisher
April 28th -History of the sea level rise and relationship to current climate change, Dr. Larry
Sanford
For more information, contact Linda Starling at (410)221-8381 or starling@umces.edu
Upper Shore Beekeeping Assn. Monthly Meeting and Talk
The Upper Eastern Shore Beekeeping Assn (UESBA) will meet on Wednesday April 13th
at the Kent County Library in Chestertown.
Topic: “Making Mead” by Bill Hingst
The meeting begins at 6:30 pm in the yellow building next to the Kent County library
parking lot in Chestertown.
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Features and Functions of Non-Tidal Wetlands
Date: Saturday, April 16
Time: 10:00-12:00pm
Registration Fee: $30.00
Registration Ends: April 8
Instructor
Ria Malloy
For more information and to register: http://nontidalwetlandsapril2016.eventbrite.com
Location
This class has both online component (2-4 hours in duration) and a non-tidal wetland tour in Ellicott
City, Howard County (2 hours in duration).
Class Description
Non-tidal wetlands: Soggy, remote land in need of development? Or a rich ecosystem teaming with
life that is a vital component of a healthy watershed? If you take a 15-minute walk from any point in
the Chesapeake Bay watershed you are likely to stumble into a water source that eventually reaches
the Bay. The quality of that water when it reaches the Bay largely depends on the features and
functionality of the non-tidal wetlands the water runs through while on its journey.
In this class students will learn
 what features define non-tidal wetlands
 the value that non-tidal wetlands bring to our environment (e.g., filtering out pollutants)
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the human actions that negatively impact non-tidal wetlands
how you can assist in preventing that harm by educating others about non-tidal wetlands
This is a “flipped” class that includes both an online component as well as a walking tour at a nontidal wetland site. On April 8th, registrants will be sent materials to complete the online (i.e.,
lecture) component of the class. Students will have a week to complete the assigned reading and
review the online presentation.
On April 16th, the class will meet in Ellicott City for the non-tidal wetland tour portion of the class.
This 1-mile, 2-hour tour will be on county property in a 100-year flood plain. The tour will enable
attendees to view and identify features of a non-tidal wetland area. The path consists of asphalt and
raised boardwalk in the shade. Students will also be asked to venture off the path a bit into the
muck, dig into the soil, and identify features in their environment.
As a result of spending time with the assigned presentation and readings before the outdoor tour,
attendees will be better equipped to identify the features of a non-tidal wetland, understand its
functions, and evaluate whether this particular wetland is effective at performing its tasks.
This class will count as 4 hours of continuing education.
Source http://www.fws.gov/restorechesbay/
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Educational Opportunities
Hands On! Graft your own Tomatoes
Date: Thursday, April 21
Time: 6:00-9:00pm
Registration Fee: $35.00
Registration Ends: April 14
Instructor
Denise Sharp
For more information and to register: http://tomatograftinghowardco.eventbrite.com
Location
UME Howard County office
3300 Ridge Road, Suite 240
Ellicott City, MD 21043
Class Description
Join us to learn how to graft tomatoes! By joining the desired cultivar (scion) to the disease resistant
rootstock, you can grow higher yielding tomatoes--often 25% or higher yields. Your grafted tomatoes are resistant to many of the common root diseases that normally damage tomatoes.
You’ll learn which diseases can be minimized with grafted tomatoes. Then we’ll head to the grafting
stations for hands on learning and merging scions to rootstocks for exceptional plants. Each person will graft 10 plants to take home, plus be given a few extra rootstocks and scions for more
“at home” grafting after the class. Instructions and after-grafting care will be part of the class.
The tomato cultivars will include Pineapple, Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, and Green Zebra. Students will graft onto Maxifort.
The cost of the class includes supplies that will be provided to you. These supplies include
rootstocks, scions, multiple types of grafting clips, and razor blades.
This class will count as 3 hours of continuing education and also towards the Vegetable
Gardening Certificate.
Source http://crankypuppy.blogspot.com/
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Educational Opportunities
Flowering Shrubs
Date: Wednesdays, J une 15, 22, 29 Registration Fee: $45.00
Time: 10:00-12:00pm
Registration Ends: J une 8th
Instructor
Wanda MacLachlin
For more information and to register:
http://floweringshrubsstmary2016.eventbrite.com/
Location
Charlotte Hall Branch Library
37600 New Markey Road
Library Meeting Room
Charlotte Hall, MD 20622
Class Description
This class will cover approximately 45 flowering shrubs. We will go over identifying characteristics, distinguish between confusing look-alikes, and discuss cultural requirements and
use in the landscape.
Flowering plants are among our most beautiful and interesting landscape plants! Join us as
we learn about itea, kerria, crape myrtle, mahonia, spirea, viburnums--and so much more!
This class will count as 9 continuing education hours and also towards the Woody Plants
certificate.
Source http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/
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MG’s Report
Bay-Wise
The Bay-Wise committee met on Wednesday, March 16th after our regular meeting. We
have set some goals for this year. We want to consult/certify a minimum of 20
properties. Helping us to reach that goal will be meeting with all Class of 2013 MG’s, Class
of 2015 Interns and new interns from the Class of 2016 who have not already been BayWise certified. Several already have completed certification of their yards. Beginning midApril, we will start contacting all others individually by email to begin establishing dates for
consults. We plan to start visits beginning in May when the weather is more predictable and
gardens are beginning to show their splendor. Most active MG’s have had their properties
Bay-Wise certified. But if you somehow slipped through the cracks and haven’t had that
honor, contact Molly at the Extension Office and we’ll schedule a visit.
We have also begun a vigorous publicity campaign. Bay-Wise brochures have now been
placed at most of the major nurseries in our area as well as other public areas. We continue
to spread the word at the Kent Island Farmers Market. Kate Greer wrote an article on our
Bay-Wise program which we plan to have published in all the area newspapers and updates.
Look for it and spread the word among your neighbors.
Our next Bay-Wise meeting will be Wednesday, April 20, 2016 immediately
following our regular monthly MG meeting. Bay-Wise meetings are open to
all MG’s.
Submitted by Debbie Pusey
Demonstration Gardens
The gardens weren’t quite ready for us to begin work in March, but we will be starting back
with our monthly clean-up beginning in April. We have two gardens which we are
responsible for maintaining: the Centreville Library Rain Garden and the garden at the flag
pole in the Queen Anne’s County 4-H Park. The 4-H Park garden is small and doesn’t
require much work (aside from all the fennel that decided to grow there last year). The
library garden is a much larger effort, but well worth it as it seen by library visitors every
day.
We will meet at the Centreville Library Rain Garden on Thursday, April 22
starting at 9am. We are usually there for about 1 ½ hours. (That seems to be our work
load limit!) We’ll see how much of the dogbane has come back. Last year it was taking over
large sections of the garden. We diligently worked to remove as much as possible to stay
ahead of it.
The County works with us on this garden. They provide a cart or trash bags for debris
removal and take care of mulching and cleaning up the river rock in the dry stream bed. But
we will need to get the major spring clean-up taken care of before the county steps in to do
their part. The more hands we have helping, the easier it is for all of us. Hope to see you
there.
Submitted by Debbie Pusey
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P OLLINATORS
The Pollinator Committee will have a display at Adkins Arboretum during their plant sale
on April 30th. We are trying to educate the public about the need to protect our
pollinators and to provide habitat in which they can thrive. The hours will be from 10
am -4pm. We need one or two more people to be there in the morning, and
two to be there in the afternoon. If you can help, please contact Margaret Carter
@mawcarter@verizon.net or 410-482-6729. Thanks!
K ENT I SLAND P LANT C LINIC
The Farmers Market is at Christ Church, 830 Romancoke Road (aka Route 8). We set
the booth tables up at 3 to 3:15 pm to be ready for bugs, citizens, and damaged plants by
3:30 pm. We start knocking down the booth around 6 pm. Bring a beverage bottle to
stay hydrated.
Next Plant Clinic: Thursday, April 14th
Please consider volunteering at YOUR MG table ONE day this year!
Nick Stoer 301- 219-9098 nickstoer@gmail.com
Cathy Tengwall 443-994-2523 cathy1542@gmail.com
C HESTERTOWN P LANT C LINICS
Saturday, April 23, 9am-1pm: Earth Day Festival, Chestertown
Saturday, May 14, 8am-noon, Fountain Park, Chestertown
Saturday, May 28, 8:30am—4pm, Chestertown Tea Party Festival
G ROW I T E AT I T S TATE W IDE M EETINGS FOR 2016
Y EAR OF THE T OMATO !
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Wednesday, July 27th, 10-1pm, at Center for Educational Partnership, Riverdale
Tuesday, November 15th, 10-1pm at Baltimore City
S UMMER Y OUTH G ARDENING S ERIES
K ENT I SLAND L IBRARY , S TEVENSVILLE
Thursday, June 30th, 10:30am-11:30am
Thursday, July 7th, 2:30pm-3:30pm
Monday, July 11th, 10:30am-11:30am
Monday, July 18th, 2:30pm-3:30pm
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Natural Enemy of the Month
The Soldier Beetle (Order Coleoptera; Family Cantharidae)
Soldier beetles are a common outdoor insect that can be considered a natural enemy as either
larvae or adults. Soldier beetles are nicknamed “leatherwings” because of the adults’ soft, cloth-like
wing covers, which are reminiscent of military uniforms. The adult beetles are elongate, softbodied and about ½ inch long. Colors vary from yellow to
red with brown or black wings or trim and, like other beetles,
they have chewing mouthparts. Soldier beetle adults resemble
lightning bugs (fireflies) but do not have light-producing
organs.
Slow to take flight, soldier beetles are often seen among
flowers or in thick vegetation. They often congregate around
herbs in bloom, and they are easily attracted by singleflowered marigolds and members of the daisy family.
Goldenrods are soldier beetle magnets, as are many native shrubs and trees. They are also
attracted to helianthus, coneflower, tansy, zinnia, and globe thistle. Because of their frequent
contact with flowers, soldier beetles are also important pollinators.
Soldier beetle larvae are long, slender and alligator-like. The sides
of the body appear rippled or scalloped because of indentations
within each body segment. The body is covered with tiny dense
bristles and appears velvety. Their color is generally dark brown
to gray and they may grow to ¾” in length.
Females mate only once in early summer. Eggs are laid in soil,
where the larvae feed for up to a year on the eggs and larvae of
beetles, grasshoppers, moths, and other insects. The larvae
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usually spend the winter in damp soil and debris or under loose
bark. However, they may be found as accidental guests inside the house in the fall when they are
searching for protected locations in which to spend the winter.
Both adults and larvae are predacious and feed on other insects. The adults eat caterpillars, aphids,
and other soft-bodied insects and can be important predators in the garden. As they lie in wait for
prey on flowers such as goldenrod they may feed on nectar and pollen but they do no damage to
the plants. In some instances, soldier beetles may appear to swarm linden trees in full bloom,
where they can feed on a mixed diet of pollen, nectar, and small insects.
Soldier beetles are beneficial and harmless. Therefore, it is unnecessary to control them. Larvae
that enter a house in the fall are only a nuisance. Entry can be prevented by weather-stripping,
caulking, and other measures that seal likely points of entry. Spraying of either the exterior
perimeter or the interior has little if any benefit. Soldier beetles already inside the house need only
be swept or picked up and discarded.
Submitted by Jim Persels
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MGs Write: Making Friends of Enemies
A Close Look at the Garden Ecosystem
On the underside of dawn-flecked leaves, stomata awaken and yawn for carbon dioxide,
releasing water vapor. Flickering osmotic pressure pumps mineral nutrients from root hairs to
leaf tips. In a silent frenzy of photons, plants harvest solar energy, fashioning themselves into
feasts of sugars, proteins, and vitamins for hungry humans and insects alike.
From aphids to whiteflies, each plant attracts the invertebrates that evolved to eat it. And as
gardeners, we have a variety of ways to intervene. Floating row covers deter flying foes like
squash vine borers, beetles, and thrips. Crop rotation skirts around root maggots and
rootworm larvae. Handpicking ferries away ravenous slugs, bugs, and hornworms. Neem oil
circumvents chewing and sucking insects, and Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) makes a fatal last meal
for caterpillars.
Yet our meddling disrupts the ecological service the pests provide: nourishing secondary
consumers in a complex biotic community. By reframing our gardens in the context of a larger
food web, we might reconsider how to keep pest populations in check.
Plant Diversity by Design
From aphid midges to wasps, we can create habitat to support the natural enemies of garden
pests.
Have a problem with leafhoppers? Attract minute pirate bugs with cosmos and marigolds.
Reinforce their ranks with big-eyed bugs and damsel bugs, each drawn to groundcovers of
clover. Round out the offense with hover flies, lacewings, and chalcid wasps—all drawn to
plantings of coriander and dill.
Plagued by caterpillars? Sawflies? Stink bugs? Invite ichneumon wasps, lacewings, and tachinid
flies to the garden for a savory repast. Lure them to lunch with yarrow, asters, angelica, and
black-eyed susans, all native to the Delmarva region.
Think Like an Ecosystem
In a balanced ecosystem, every organism serves more than one purpose. Following nature’s
logic, we can prioritize multifunctional plants that attract numerous kinds of beneficial insects.
Dill and Queen Anne’s lace each support at least nine different kinds of natural enemies.
Goldenrod hosts a dozen.
And rather than rely on a single plant type to attract a particular natural enemy, aim for two
or more. If one plant host gets compromised, we increase our chances of attracting the
desired insect by having another plant ready to fill its niche. Redundancy leads to resilience.
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MGs Write: Making Friends of Enemies
Offer Natural Enemies a Seat at the Table
To diversify our gardens with habitat for natural enemies, we can ask the following questions:
1) What plants do we enjoy growing?
2) What pests enjoy eating them?
3) What natural enemies feed on the pests?
4) What plants provide habitat for those natural enemies?
To this end, the Pollinator and Natural Enemies (P&NE) Team of QAC MGs has begun to
compile research published by Extension agencies and institutions that can help answer the
latter two questions. We are cataloging pests and their corresponding natural enemies, along
with the habitat requirements to host them in our gardens. (We are happy to share our
resources upon request!)
Gardens without Borders
As signals of ecological need, pests can motivate us to enrich our gardens with plants that
support insect allies. We can put down the pesticide and reach for seeds of coreopsis, swamp
milkweed, sunflowers, and long-styled sweet cicely. We can follow the flow of solar energy
from rooted autotrophs to primary and secondary consumers.
An assassin bug, enticed with fennel and parsley, skewers a Japanese beetle. Hover fly larvae,
emerging from eggs on Virginia mountain mint and golden alexanders, devour scores of
mealybugs before metamorphosing into adult pollinators.
Nurturing these relationships into being, we can participate in the wondrous interplay
between the plant and animal communities. And in avoiding pesticides, we can secure the
vitality of all stages of terrestrial life, from soil microorganisms to plants, from pollinators to
ourselves.
Submitted by Shane Brill
Source: http://etc.usf.edu/
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MG’s Write: Book Review
Tomatoland
How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Tomatoland,
by Barry Estabrook, was first published
in 2011, in response to feedback he'd received from his
exposé published by Gourmet magazine in 2009, “Politics
of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes.” Tomatoland delves
into every aspect of Florida's tomato agribusiness,
centered on the fields around the small town of
Immokalee, not far from Naples, FL.
The events of which Estabrook wrote are modern-day,
within these 25 years, some within the decade. After
reading this book, you won't be able to look at another
bland tomato (or strawberry or melon) without
wondering. Understanding and questioning the origins of
our food is important, not only to our health, but to the
health of everyone involved along the production chain.
What are the hidden costs of winter tomatoes?
You know those hard, mealy, tasteless tomatoes in the
grocery store between October and June – the winter
tomatoes. Growers refer to them as Florida Rounds picked green and then gassed with ethylene to “degreen”
them to the red color we expect, yet still far from ripe.
Most of the winter tomato crop from Florida is distributed east of the Mississippi; a soft, vineripe tomato could never survive that trip. The biggest buyers are in the food service industry
(Yum! Brands, McDonald's, Aramark, etc.) and grocery chains. Selective breeding has tripled
yields but stripped the orbs of much of their nutrition and flavor. Florida rounds conform to
strict criteria of size, shape and color, but there is no criteria for taste, which is sacrificed so that
the Florida round is easily sliced by a machine and fits neatly on that hamburger in the bag from
the drive-thru window.
Florida's sandy soil is such a poor growing medium that fields are flooded with fertilizer and
pesticides for each new crop. Estabrook describes how workers stand in puddles of pesticides
and are routinely sprayed directly with chemicals which they are told are perfectly safe for
humans. No wonder really, why all manner of ailments are suffered by the pickers. Three
workers documented in the book gave birth to tragically deformed babies within seven weeks of
each other. This prompted an outside investigation, resulting in the grower agreeing to a
settlement out of court. Workers began to question the consequences of their own repeated
pesticide exposure after observing the frantic reaction of an Anglo driver of a sprayer truck. He
had inadvertently spilled some pesticide on his leg while replacing a tank.
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Book Review: Continued
The tomato industry is rife with deplorable conditions and treatment of migrant workers. The
three qualifications one grower used to select field workers were to ensure they were
uneducated, undocumented migrants, who could not understand English (indeed, many speak
Mextec, not Spanish as you might assume; translators are not always available). Under these
circumstances, enslaved Mexican Indian field workers were subject to exploitation and abuse. In
2008, three members of a family of human traffickers were sentenced to ten and twelve years in
prison, while the grower company executives were able to maintain deniability because the
pickers involved were not directly employed by the company, but instead were deemed
contractors.
Without understanding the labor laws or the language, pickers had nowhere to turn until the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) was formed in 1993 and began to affect change by
generating support of buyers to apply pressure on growers. CIW's anti-slavery and fair food
campaigns have led to improved conditions and workers' time being more accurately measured
and compensated. But the industry still has its battles ahead as Mexican tomatoes saturate the
market at a lower price than those grown in Florida.
Optimism rises with Canadian hydroponics and Eastern U.S. organic growers getting their
foothold in markets. Savvy consumers know to judge heirloom varieties by taste, overlook
cracks and color variations, and are willing to pay prices that support fair wages and conditions
for farm workers. A glimmer of optimism may also be in Florida's big-ag conference rooms in
which both sides of the industry are heard and considered.
I thought Tomatoland was a powerful, informative and well-written book. I hope you take time
to read it, and check the produce labels on your next grocery visit.
Submitted by Denise Malueg
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Stepping Into Spring...
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ST. PAUL’S FLOWER FAIR, CAMBRIDGE
April 29th—April 30th 9am-6pm
205 Maryland Ave, Cambridge
http://stpaulscambridge.com/images/flower_fair/2016/Flyer-5x7.jpg
MARYLAND HOUSE & GARDEN PILGRIMAGE - http://www.mhgp.org/
QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY
Saturday, April 30th 2016
TALBOT COUNTY
Saturday, May 14th 2016
WILLIAM PACA GARDEN PLANT SALE, ANNAPOLIS
Saturday, May 7th 10am-4pm (Stop by the QAMG Sale first!)
Sunday, May 8th noon-4pm
http://www.annapolis.org/media/48-85-william-paca-garden-plant-sale
QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY MASTER GARDENER PLANT SALE
Saturday, May 7th
9am to 12pm (QAC Extension Office)
ANNAPOLIS HORTICULTURE SOCIETY PLANT SALE
Saturday, May 14th 7am-noon
Riva Road Farmers Market
http://annapolishorticulture.org/events.html
Adkins Arboretum's Fourth Annual Native Garden Tour
KENT COUNTY Saturday, May 21, 2016 10am until 4pm
To volunteer contact- Alice Macnow
alicejean@netzero.net
Phone # 410-778-4275
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Sun
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Inspiration from
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Chestertown,
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20Monthly MG
Meeting, 9:30am
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Rain Garden,
22 6pm Mead
Tasting , 7pm
23 Earth Day
Event, Chester-
Bay-Wise Meet-
9:00am
More than
town
25 Honey Bee
Colony Manage-
the Prairie, 2pm
C’town
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Homey, film
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Meeting, 6:30pm ic, 3:30-6:30pm
14 Plant Clinic, 8
to noon, Ches-
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tertown
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Meeting, 9:30am
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21 Adkins Native Garden
Tour, Kent
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28 Tea Party
Festival
May Newsletter Deadline:
April 21, 2016
University of Maryland Extension
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Phone: (410) 758-0166
Fax: (410) 758-3687
http://extension.umd.edu/queen-annescounty/about
QACMG Website:
http://extension.umd.edu/queen-annescounty/home-gardening
Master Gardener Coordinator,
Queen Anne’s County
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