Top Farm Stories and TCMG reminders

#Learn and Grow with Master Gardener Sybil Phillips, who enjoys “The Volunteer Gardener” produced by Nashville Public Television. “Volunteer Gardener” features local experts who share gardening tips, upcoming garden events, recipes, visits to private gardens, and more. You can check it out and watch full episodes on-line here.

Read Summer 2015 issue of AMGA publication, “Garden Pathways”

Find TCMG reminders following Top Farm Stories.

Here are this weeks top stories from Modern Farmer curated from Twitter. You can follow them too, @modfarm

Can the Worlds’s first compostable coffee pod save us from K-cups? Peace of mind in every sip. Compostable single-serve coffee pods are a new alternative to waste-producing K-cups. Two Canadian startups, one from Toronto and one from Vancouver, each pledge to do something about that problem with their own creation: a 100 percent sustainable, biodegradable, compostable coffee pod.

Allergen-Free Peanuts And More USDA Research
Your problems with peanuts might be over in a jiff. Thanks to a new partnership between North Carolina A&T State University and a Canadian tech-ag firm, hypoallergenic peanuts will be coming to stores soon.

Phosphorus: Too Much of a Good Thing?
It’s elementary. Seeking solutions to the problem of phosphorus runoff. For two days last August, 500,000 residents in and around Toledo, Ohio, were told not to drink, cook with, or bathe children in city water. An enormous algae bloom was suffocating the part of Lake Erie where the intake for the municipal water supply is located. The poisonous pea-green soup could be seen from outer space.

Monsanto Is Trying To Become The Biggest Company In The History Of Agriculture
The controversial food giant is on its way to even bigger things. Monsanto, the enormous agricultural technology corporation perhaps best known for its genetically modified seeds and its herbicide Roundup, is on a mission.

Crowdfunding the Farm
From a farm summer camp to a community root cellar, you can help fund these ag-related campaigns.

To get more information and register on-line click here.

Please remember to log in your volunteer hours as often as possible. If you need assistance in logging those in, please contact Laurie Reinwald.

TCMG’ BIG PROJECT: Our FALL CONFERENCE, October 17, 2015, 8:30-2:30.

TCMG’ Executive Board is polishing up all aspects of the Fall Conference, but we want to invite you to join in on the “FUN”; thus, we are asking you to consider participating on the following committees, (contact the committee chair ASAP to lock your name in):

Room set up/clean up afterwards/ Preparing Registration Packets & other logistics: Octavia Miles & Ann Hewitt, co- chair

Table Decorations: Jeanie Gray & Bobby Cherones, co-chair

Advertisement/Public Relations: Pam Sloan, chair

Refreshments & Lunch: Sybil Phillips, chair

Door Prizes: Laurie Reinwald, chair

Based on conference attendance in previous years, we are anticipating approximately 75 attendees (you + any community guests); therefore, if you would, please consider bringing any of the following items (75 in quantity) to our AUGUST 11th TCMG Monthly Meeting; they will be stored at the Extension Service and used to stuff our “Registration Bags”. (These items, except the green folders, can bear the name of your own personal business or the name of a community business/organization):

* Green, 2 pocket, three prong folders

* Writing pens/pencils

* Notepads

* Gardening Brochures

* Vegetable/flower seed packets

* Mints/other assorted candies

* Personal sizes of Kleenex, germ-x, etc.

* ANY MISCELLANEOUS OF YOUR CHOOSING

We are finalizing our Fall Conference registration form and will email it to you for early Conference Registration within the next week. You may also pre-register your friends and/or family members.

If you have questions regarding the Fall Conference, please contact me, Ann Hewitt, or any member of the TCMG Executive Board.

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