Long Island Master Gardener Events Calendar

LIMG 2017 Gold Trowel Award

Nominations for the 2017 Gold Trowel Awards are now being accepted. Please see the nomination instructions and form by clicking Gold Trowel Award Form.

Meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month unless indicated below.

8:45 AM to 9:30 AM: arrival, refreshments, social, setup, and gardening discussions

9:30 AM to 10:30 AM: guest speaker

10:45 AM to 11:30 AM: general membership meeting, raffle and cleanup

11:30 AM: Executive Board meeting, all members are encourage to attend.

All meetings are at the Brookhaven Ecology Center unless otherwise stated. See below for directions and map. As you approach the main building the flagpole will be to the left side of the building (your right). Keeping the building to your right walk about 100 feet down the path beside the building. The door is just before the large garage doors. Once inside the building you will see the meeting room just past the plants.

Periodically check the LIMG website for changes in the meeting location. Speakers, events, and activities will be posted when confirmed.

Meeting dates:

October 18, 2017, Meeting at the Brookhaven Ecology Site. Suffolk County Cornell Cooperative Extension Dr. Tamson Yeh presentation is entitled "Bulbs and Grasses to Beat those Deer Appetites."

November 15, 2017, Meeting at the Brookhaven Ecology Site. Master Gardener Volunteer and Project Bloom Director Kathleen Cleary will give us a "Galapagos Islands Travelogue."

December 2017, no meeting. Holiday party location and date coming.

DIRECTIONS

Four ways to Brookhaven Ecology Site:
1. Sunrise to Waverly Ave. (exit 52)-north 2 lights-right on

Buckley Ave-1 mile on right.

2. LIE to exit 63, south on North Ocean- right on

Woodside Ave (Rte 99) - right onto Buckley - past cemetery,
enter on right.

3. LIE exit 63 south on North Ocean Avenue – first right (Jamaica Avenue) past

railroad overpass. Go until tee intersection (about half a mile) which is Blue Point Rd.

Go left onto Blue Point until first traffic light. Turn left at first traffic light onto Buckley.

Center entrance is on left about one quarter mile.

4. From the north shore-Rte 97 (Nicholls Rd.) south-left onto Patchogue-Holbrook Rd.(CR 19)

follow signs to Woodside Ave. (Rte 99)-left onto Woodside Ave. (Rte 99) follow signs to

Buckley Rd. (the signs may say Holtsville Park)-left onto Buckley Rd.-park is on the right.

Long Island Master Gardeners 2017 Calendar of
Events, Meetings, and Activities