Daily Archives: October 25, 2014


Saturday, November 8, 9:30 am – 4:00 pm – The 18th Great Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show & Sale

The GCC Pioneer Valley Institute once again brings you its wonderful annual Gem and Mineral Show with talks, demonstrations, videos, and a dozen or more vendors selling fossils, minerals, gems and jewelry.  The Jurassic Road Show will be there, too. Free admission at the GCC Dining Commons, 270 Main Street, Greenfield, Massachusetts.  For more information visit www.gcc.mass.edu/pvi/.


My Garden Through The Year

The Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design has created a garden journal for the thoughtful gardener, beginner or seasoned.  This beautiful garden journal lists gardening tasks month by month.  Add your own maintenance notes to personalize and record your horticultural observations.  My Garden Through the Year is available exclusively through COGdesign for $20 each.  You may mail payment to COGdesign, PO Box 380275, Cambridge, MA 02238 – for a single journal, add $5 for shipping and handling.  For orders of two or more journals, add $2.50 for each additional journal.  Or, pay with PayPal at http://www.cogdesign.org/.

COGdesign is a non-profit service organization offering:

quality landscape design for community-based groups;
meaningful professional experience for student and practicing landscape designers;
volunteer opportunities for those interested in strengthening communities by creating and improving neighborhood green spaces.