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17 Tollgate Volunteer General Meeting 7:00 2 Recognition Dinner (RSVP) 4:00
5 TGAC Meeting 7:00
19 Fall Clean Up 9:00 13 TGAC Meeting 7:00
26 Fall Clean Up 9:00
7 Rose Garden Mulching TBD
No Tollgate Volunteer General Meetings November and December The Farm News will Not be Published in December
Volume 25 Issue 10 October 2019
The Tollgate Farm News
MSU Tollgate Gardens Volunteer General Meeting in the Conference Center Thursday, October 17, 7:00 PM
Homemade Holiday Gifts Join garden volunteers in the conference center for the October 17 meeting to close out anoth-er Tollgate year with Mary Spencer and her cooking demonstration including recipes and samples. This month, the theme is homemade holiday gifts.
Mary Spencer’s goal is to make people better cooks. She teaches a variety of cooking classes in the evening at The Omelette and Waffle Café on Northville Road in Northville. Upcoming activi-ties at Taste: A Cook’s Place, www.tasteacooksplace.net, include special kid’s Halloween cook-ing classes for ages 8-14 on Tuesday, October 29, and adult classes on grilling for fall and Oktoberfest celebrating German cuisine.
Mary has classes scheduled at the Old World Olive Company in Plymouth, and many local libraries includHeights, Warren, Livonia and Oxford in the coming months. For more infor-mation, http://www.tasteacooksplace.net/demonstration_classes.
A culinary instructor at ABC Warehouse ling Lake Orion, Roseville, Franklin, Commerce, Milford, Farmington, Milan, Dearborn ocations in Livonia, Troy, Lakeside and Novi, https://www.abcwarehouse.com/eventscooking-classes, Mary also conducts food tours, does menu planning and researches heirloom recipes. She has been teaching cooking for approximately 20 years and has over 5,500 cookbooks in her personal collection.
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Greetings All,
Recognition Dinner: The recognition dinner is coming up soon. Please reserve your calendar for Saturday, November 2nd start-ing at 4:00 . Every year I look forward to this event. It is wonderful to get together with the many people that have made the Toll-gate gardens so beautiful all year. It is also great to see what everyone looks like when thoroughly scrubbed! Our meal is generously provided by the Americana Foundation. I look forward to a special evening.
Invitations go out to anyone who logged at least one volunteer visit to the farm this year. If you do not receive an invitation to the recognition dinner, it probably means that you did not sign in at the volunteer center this year. I do not want to miss extending an invitation to anyone who volunteered at Toll-gate during 2019. Please let me know if you were missed receiving an invitation in error.
Volunteering Present and Future: Thanks to all who helped out at the recent Pumpkin-
Fest event at Tollgate. PumpkinFest thrives with the support of many volunteers. The event was a great success with beautiful weather coaxing several thousand visitors to the farm on each day of the event. Thanks for your continued support of Tollgate!
Activity Days: There are still a few work days left this year. Please check the Toll-gate calendar and join us for a little end-of- the-year activity in the gardens. Think about how ready you will be come February to get back to the soil. Channel that future enthu-siasm to a work day during the next month to help us get Tollgate ready for the winter and to complete other fall chores around the farm. Our many visitors and I really appreciate your efforts!
A huge thank you for all of the work that Tollgate’s quilting bees performed creating this year’s quilt. It is a beautiful work of art. The quilt is created each winter and raffle tickets are sold each gardening year to support our work in the gardens. Although we usually pick a winner at our summer open house, this year, a change in plans (and beastly weather on the day of the open house) postponed the drawing until the re-cent PumpkinFest. This year’s winner is Susan Genser. She was thrilled to be cho-sen. Raffle sales brought in nearly $800.00 for the gardens. Thanks again to the wonder-ful work that provided income to the Tollgate gardens and beauty to the world!
See you soon at Tollgate!
Roy
Roy Prentice
FROM THE TOLLGATE
FARM MANAGER
GREETINGS
Recognition Dinner 2018
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“The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters” May Sarton
Vote Now - October is the month to vote on all elected positions for TGAC. Though the field of nominees is very limited we ask that you participate in the voting process, write-ins are welcome! Please submit your ballot for officer positions in person at the October 17th membership meeting, by mail or email to Roy prior to the meeting or by proxy via phone call/ message to Roy for the same deadline. Look for the ballot on page 13.
Good Byes and Welcomes! I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to our outgoing Editor of the Farm News, Darretta Ferasin. Her talents and time with the newsletter has resulted in a quality publication that has been enjoyed by our membership for years. Her excellent photos and eye for editing details have been greatly appreciated. Likewise, let me welcome the new Editor, Jennifer Roberts! Jennifer is a Toll-gate member who has experience in Publisher and in creating similar newsletter publications. I am sure she will bring her own skills and flair as she takes over in 2020. Another dedicated chairperson is stepping aside at the end of our 2019 season, Cindy Bolterstein our Membership Chairperson. Cindy has kept accurate membership records on Excel; tracks member visits and generates monthly and special reports that keep the TGAC up to date. Please accept our sincere thanks for your time and effort in this essential function for our organization.
Activity Days! Our October calendar contains workdays for the close of our garden-ing season including clean up dates and our final December activity for rose mounding. Annu-als will be removed and gardens deadheaded on these next clean up dates as we prepare gar-den beds for the winter. As we have done the past the hostas on the site will be left to wither to avoid possible Hosta Virus X (HVX) cross contamination. The Nursery team will be conclud-ing the divisions and donations for the season see more info in the Nursery Notes.
Please Note - As a reminder to all: there are no membership meetings in Novem-ber or December. The October 17th meeting is you last chance to gather with our group until
LEARN GROW
MAKE FRIENDS ENJOY
Notes from the President
Continued on Page 4 Photos by Renee Cottrell
Renee Cottrell
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the recognition dinner on November 2nd. All those who have participated in one or more ac-tivity days will get an invitation. Look for it soon! If we missed you in error, please contact Roy for RSVP. Hope to see many of you there!
Area Garden Leaders - As always we like to plan ahead for the upcoming season and will be meeting in early January 2020 to get together and discuss plans and needs for the upcoming season. You may want to work ahead on updating the plant lists for your areas as we are making a big effort to improve our signage toward our objective of public education on plant species/types. If you have not already done so you may submit plant lists for tags to be made. Include the botanical name, common name and variety if known. A reminder that any reimbursement forms should be submitted now so we can recon-cile our 2019 budget records by the end of the year. Your elected TGAC members are dedicated to making your Tollgate experience rewarding and only with honest feedback can we continue to grow. Email me your thoughts and comments [email protected]. Thank you for being a Tollgate Garden Volunteer.
Renee Cottrell, President.
TAKE A TOLLGATE PICTURE
Notes from the President (Continued)
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Kathryn Fitzpatrick
PAR GARDEN
Busy Weeding are Nancy Powell, Theresa Bridenbaugh, Lenora Woloszyn, and Linda Fitzpatrick
This little fellow was spotted recently dashing across the Tollgate driveway. He (or she) is a banded wood snail which is native of Europe and has been estab-lished in the Eastern United States for many years. The last several years has seen it appearing throughout SE Michigan. Although devilishly cute, it is still undetermined whether this non-native spe-cies will become a problem for native communities or agriculture. Photo by Rachael Moran
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Photos by Darretta Ferasin
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The Nursery Team extends a huge THANK YOU to all the Tollgate Garden Volunteers who have supported the Nursery this year! Many of you have donated favorite plants from your home garden – and then bought more plants at the sale replace them! We appreciate all the help from Tollgate Volunteers who come down to the Nursery each workday to help with the chores that always need to be done – pot-ting new divisions, pulling weeds out of the pots and from the soil around them, hand watering, fertilizing pots in the spring, cutting back foliage and mulching pots in the fall, and raking off this mulch in the spring. Whether the days are nice sunny days in the 60’s and 70’s, or cold and threatening to rain, or approaching 90 with high humidity – there are always things that need to be done in the nursery! As you receive this newsletter, we are close to the end of our sea-son – the last date to donate plants this year was Saturday, October 12. If you have plants that you are unable to overwinter and donate in the spring, please contact Peg Palmer ([email protected]) to see if it is possible to take your donations later in October.
The primary goal of the Nursery is to sup-port all of the gardens. We do this two ways – most significantly, all money raised through plant sales provides funding to purchase new plants, mulch, compost, fertilizer and all the other things that are needed to keep all of the Tollgate gardens beautiful. The Nursery also provides a place for Area Garden Leaders to “shop” for great new plants for their Tollgate gardens throughout the season. The Nursery also supports Tollgate’s Educational Mission during plant sales with plant tag signage that includes plant cultural information and bro-chures that inform the public about current top-ics such as Native Plants, attracting Humming-birds, Butterflies, and finding plants that are (relatively) “Critter Resistant”.
I hope that some of you are interested in joining the NURSERY TEAM in 2020! We need a large team of volunteers in order to maintain our track record of successful plant sales. You can join as a ROW LEADER or CO-ROW LEADER to share responsibilities for a specific area of the nursery. Or join as a MEMBER AT LARGE. Worried that you do not have enough plant knowledge to be a row leader? Don’t!!! Most of our row leaders became experts about the plants in their row (and others) by becoming a row leader and sharing knowledge and questions with other nursery leaders. We have lots of expertise within our team, plus some “outside experts” we can call on. Please contact Peg Palmer to get additional information or to join the team.
Peg Palmer - [email protected]
Peg Palmer
NURSERY NOTES
VOLUNTEERS TOGETHER DIVIDING GROWING SHARING
The Working Fall Plant Sale 2019
Photos by Jennifer Roberts
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Volunteer Activity Day and Meetings Information
248-347-3860 ext. 400
● The Tollgate Gardens Advisory Council next
meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7:00 in the Tollgate Office Building. All Tollgate Gardens Volunteer members are welcome to attend.
● Listings to contact individual Council Members and Area Garden Leaders are available at all general meetings and in the Volunteer Communication Center.
● Tollgate Volunteer Membership is renewed annually. The 2019 Tollgate Garden Volunteers membership is from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.
Farm Manager Roy Prentice - 248 347-3860 ext. 251 email - [email protected]
President ........................... Renee Cottrell
Vice President… ............... Marilyn Alimpich
Secretary… ........................ Dave Komraus
Treasurer ........................... Sue Janczarek
Membership ...................... Cindy Bolterstein
PR ....................................... TBD
Programs ........................... Jackie Stengel
Hospitality ........................ Teresa LaRosa
Farm News Editor ............. Darretta Ferasin
For membership questions or to update your current membership information send email to:
MSU Tollgate Gardens Volunteers For general information and questions Contact Roy Prentice or See Website: http://tollgate.msu.edu/volunteering/
Activity Days Activity day hours are 9:00 to noon unless otherwise noted on the Tollgate Garden Volunteer Important Dates and Events listed on the first page of the Tollgate Farm News or by the Area Garden Leader (AGL).
Lunch will be provided on scheduled workdays. Veggie alternatives are available upon request.
This schedule does not exclude you from working independently on the site. However, on non-scheduled days, your efforts will need to be self-directed with guidance from the garden area binders located in the Vol-unteer Communication Center.
If you aren’t getting The Tollgate Farm News
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Trowel
Pruners
Loppers
Garden Scissors
Your Favorite Weeding Implement
Hand Saw
Plant Division Forks
Shrub Rake
Sun Screen
Garden Gloves
Knee Pads
Insect Repellant
List of Suggested Gardening Implements to Bring
from Home as Needed
Spades
Garden Rakes
Brooms
Wheelbarrows
Weed Buckets
Leaf Rakes
Garden Hoe
Long Handled Garden Forks
Garden Tools Available for Use at Tollgate
Tollgate Garden Volunteers Ballot for 2020 You may cast your vote for the person nominated or write in a member of TGV for the following offices. (NOTE: Be sure if you write in someone’s name, that they are willing to fulfill the office). Please mark your choice, one vote per position, and return this ballot to the general meeting at 7:00 PM
on Thursday, October 17, 2019, when the ballot count will take place. If you wish to mail your ballot, it should be post marked no later than Tuesday, October 15, 2019 in order to ensure its receipt at Tollgate in time for the ballot count. Mail your ballot by folding and using this as a pre-addressed envelope, or in a separate envelope to the address below.
Tollgate Education Center Attention: Tollgate Gardens Volunteers 28115 Meadowbrook Novi, MI. 48377-3128
President ____ Renee Cottrell or ____ ____________________________
(Write in) Vice President ____ Marilyn Alimpich or ____ ____________________________
(Write in) Secretary ____ David Komraus or ____ ____________________________
(Write in) Treasurer ____ Sue Janczarek or ____ ____________________________
(Write in)
