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March Master Gardener Meeting March 23, 2017 Photo: Mary Doo Tonights Agenda 6:00 Land Stewardship Focus Area 6:20 Resilient Landscapes, Dr. John Taylor 7:20 -Break- Volunteer Agreement, Guidebook 7:40 MGP Resources, Rosanne Sherry 8:10

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March Master Gardener Meeting March 23, 2017

Photo: Mary Doo

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Tonight’s Agenda

6:00 Land Stewardship Focus Area 6:20 Resilient Landscapes, Dr. John Taylor 7:20 -Break- Volunteer Agreement, Guidebook 7:40 MGP Resources, Rosanne Sherry 8:10 - 8:30 Pin Award Ceremony

Photo: Sue Dunn

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Posting Continuing Ed Hours

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Happy 40th Anniversary URI Master Gardener Program 1977- 2017!

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URI Spring Festival

Saturday, May 6, 2017 URI Kingston Campus

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Gardening with the Masters Tour

June 24-25, 2017

Guidebooks on sale today, please take bookmarks to distribute :)

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15,000-20,000 clients educated in 2016!

URI Master Gardener Projects, School Gardens, EMG Services + Events

→

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Top 3 Behavior Changes We Encouraged in 2016

Year End Survey Results Clients began or increased the following: 1. Identify plant problems before taking action against them 2. Grow food plants 3. Amend soils correctly for vegetables, garden beds or lawn

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What’s next in 2017?

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Why?

An opportunity to concentrate our efforts strategic way toward a relevant issue facing RI communities.

Focus Area

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Focus Area Process

Step 1: Train MG Volunteers Step 2: Educate the Public Step 3: Measure knowledge gain and behavior change

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Focus Area Development

We consulted the following partners:

  • Pollinator working group (RIDEM and RI House of Representatives)
  • RI Invasive Species Council
  • Civic Alliance for a Cooler RI
  • RI Natural History Survey
  • RI Wild Plant Society
  • Sue Anderbois, Director of Food Strategy

URI Faculty:

  • Dr. John Taylor, Agroecology (URIMGP FACULTY ADVISOR)
  • Dr Laura Meyerson, Natural Resource Science Department
  • Brett Still, Natural Resource Science Department
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Focus Area Development

Where can we have biggest impact? THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY How can the URIMGP be value added to other efforts? What will our MGs be interested in? How can we fit within CE’s strategic plan?

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41% land agriculture

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54% land in US suburbs

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30 million acres are lawn

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5% is conservation land

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Rhode Island is second most densely populated state

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Rhode Island Lacks Invasive Species Regulation

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82% woody invasive plants introduced through horticulture (Reichard 1997)

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Native plants restore ecosystem functions

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29% bee species in decline

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35% agriculture pollinator dependent (1 in 3 bites)

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< 1% insects are pests

Photos: Mary Doo

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Source: EPA Report: Pesticide Industry Sales and Usage 2008-2012 User Expenditures on Pesticides in the United States by Pesticide Type and Market Sector, 2012 Estimates

80% expenditures for home/garden = insecticides

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Lawns contribute 4x more nutrients (P, N) to stormwater than other land uses

(Steuer et al., 1997; Waschbusch et al., 2000; Bannerman et al., 1993)

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Year End Survey Biggest Area for Improvement

Water Conservation

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Pollinator Working Group for RI

Findings

  • We do not have an accurate inventory of

pollinator species in Rhode Island

○ Citizen science

Management Recommendations

  • Pesticide Use

○ Promote selective use of pesticides – use the right tool for the right job.

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PWG Management Recommendations

  • Management

○ Enhance urban habitats for pollinators. ○ Increase fall flowering habitat. ○ Maximize soil health. ○ Leave bare ground as habitat for ground nesting native bees. ○ Maintain some brushy habitat for bees. ○ Avoid practices associated with high impact lawns. ○ Incorporate “weed” diversity.

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Strategic Plan

Land Stewardship Strategic Area of Focus Sub-goal 2: Increased capacity of...private landowners... to apply best stewardship practices to achieve ecosystem resilience and increase the use of effective, green infrastructure

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Land Stewardship

Sub-goal 4: Increased public awareness of the connections between economic viability, quality of life, environmental health, and food security resulting from land-use decision making

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Focus Area: Land Stewardship 2017-2019

Photo: Sue Dunn Photo: Sue Dunn

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Land Stewardship Behavior Change Goals

1. Recognize URI Cooperative Extension as a science-based resource 2. Preserve biodiversity and pollinators ○ Natives ○ Invasives ○ Pollinators 3. Conserve water and soil resources 4. Reduce pesticide use

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Land Stewardship Continuing Education

  • Jan Meeting Ecobeneficial

Gardening, Kim Eierman - see recording

  • Today! March 23 MG Meeting at

6pm - Resilient Landscapes, Dr. Taylor

  • Climate Change Seminar

(Recording)

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Goal 1: URI Cooperative Extension as a Resource

1. Recognize URI Cooperative Extension as a science-based resource 2. Raise awareness of our services:

○ Hotline ○ Workshops ○ Soil Testing/Kiosk ○ Seeds

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Goal 2: Preserve Biodiversity and Pollinators

Behaviors to promote:

  • Plant natives
  • Avoid /remove invasives
  • Habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects

Photo: Sue Dunn Photo: Sue Dunn

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Biodiversity and Pollinator Continuing Education

  • April 27 Cont Ed class - Cutting Edge Pollinator Conservation, Scott MacIvor
  • May 23 MG Meeting at 6pm - Pollinator Working Group

Field Sessions

  • Invasive removal and restoration at Canonchet, TBD
  • Native plants, Rhody Native at Norman Bird Sanctuary, TBD
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Themed Kiosk

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Newport Harbor Walk Monarch Habitat Demo

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Goal 3: Conserve Water

Behaviors to promote:

  • Use efficient irrigation

methods

  • Use plants to reduce

stormwater runoff

  • Mulch plants to reduce

need for watering

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Goal 3 (cont.) Conserve Soil

Behaviors to promote:

  • Test soil
  • Amend soil properly
  • Compost
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Water and Soil Continuing Education

  • Gardening for Water Quality in the Ocean State
  • n (video recording)
  • Advanced soil testing (video recording)
  • Soil Health and Plant Nutrition Core Training on

February 21 (video recording)

  • Regenerative Landscape Design Core Training

(video recording)

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Goal 4: Reduce Pesticide Use (Integrated Pest Management)

Behaviors to promote:

  • Right plant for the right place
  • Identify diseases/pests before taking

action

  • Use alternatives to pesticides

whenever possible

Photo: Sue Dunn

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IPM Continuing Education

Diagnostics Skill Building Series: Taught by URI Extension Staff

  • Part 1 - Pest Updates and Resources - February 23
  • Part 2 - Trees, Shrubs and Perennials - May, 2017
  • Part 3 - Vegetables - August, 2017
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  • Dr. Tayl0r