Daily Archives: November 5, 2024

Tuesdays, November 26 – December 17, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Plant Health Care

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This Berkshire Botanical Garden course on Plant Health Care meets for 4 weeks on Tuesdays, November 26 – December 17, 5:30 – 8:30 pm, in the Education Center. BBG members $215, nonmembers $240. Register online at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/plant-health-care-2

Look at factors that affect plant health care, including insects, diseases, pathogens, and abiotic influences. Basic diagnostic techniques will be taught. Learn to minimize potential problems through proper site preparation, plant selection, and placement. Managing problems using biological, chemical, and cultural techniques will be discussed with a focus on IPM (integrated pest management).

Instructor: Jen Werner has taught at the vocational high school level and at Springfield Technical Community College, as well as leading trainings for Master Gardeners and classes for garden clubs and garden centers. her hands-on experience ranges from landscape maintenance, construction and design, greenhouse management and production, nursery work, horticulture therapy, and entrepreneurship. Jen is a NOFA Certified Organic Landcare Professional and recently earned a UMASS Invasive Plant Management Certificate.

Monday, November 18, 6:30 pm – Curated Cuisine: Women Who Gave Soul to Southern Cooking

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Tamika R. Francis, founder of Food & Folklore, moderates a conversation with Cook’s Country editor in chief Toni Tipton-Martin and executive editor Morgan Bolling about When Southern Women Cook: History, Lore, and 300 Recipes from Every Corner of the American South. 

This new cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen showcases the hard work, hospitality and creativity of women who have given soul to Southern cooking from the start. Featuring more than 200 stories of women who’ve shaped the cuisine, every page amplifies their contributions, from the enslaved cooks making foundational food at Monticello to Mexican Americans accessing sweet memories with colorful conchas today. 

Copies of the book will be available from our bookstore partner Frugal Books. The authors will sign and guests will enjoy a bite from the book following the conversation. The event takes place Monday, November 18 at 6:30 pm at WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. For tickets, visit Ovationtix HERE