NHPGA WINTER MEETING '96 



A joint meeting with the N 

 will be held on Wednesday, 

 at the Old Mill Restaurant 

 just off the traffic circle. 



After registration and "coffee, tea. and assorted muf- 

 fins"|8-8:30l and the annual business meeting (8:30- 

 9), the program will begin with a talk by lodie and 

 David Gilson of Gilson's Farms, Groton, IVlassachu- 

 setts. Wholesale herb growers and operators of "The 

 Herb Lyceum," where they teach about and cook 

 with herbs, their topic will be "Herbs — Growing 

 Them; Using Them " 



The next speaker will be Nancy Adams. UNH Co- 

 operative Extension Agricultural Educator, Rocking- 

 ham County. Nancy will be talking about and show- 

 ing slides of her recent six-month stay in Poland, 

 where she assisted in the redesigning of the Polish 

 equivalent of Cooperative Extension, working to 

 make it function more effectively within the new, 

 market-driven economy. Her talk is entitled, "The 

 Changing Face of Agriculture in Poland " 



From 11 to 12, Andrea lohnstone, a partner in the 

 Concord law firm of Gallagher, Callahan, and Gartrell, 

 will speak on some of the legal issues affecting the 

 Green Industry — "Who's Agriculture and Who's Not?" 

 Then, within each of those two categories, she will 

 look at "Who Can Be Salaried and Who Can Not?" 

 and "Youth Labor — What Are the Requirements?" 



All this should give people something to talk 

 about at lunch, for which there are two choices: 

 Grilled Herb Chicken, garden salad, rice, and veg- 

 etables, or "Prima Vera Veggie" (vegetarian) 



ew Hampshire Landscape Association (NHLA) 

 ]aniiary 17 

 in Epsom, 



Coffee, cookies and brownies will be served in the 

 afternoon. 



The afternoon begins with Palmer Koelb of Baker 

 Valley Nursery in Wentworth, New Hampshire speak- 

 ing on the nursery's specialty, "Dwarf Conifers." 



The keynote speaker, from 2:30 until 4, will be 

 Matt Horn of Matterhorn Nursery in Spring Valley, 

 New York. Matt began as a wholesale perennial 

 grower, then moved into the upscale retail market; 

 his establishment includes, along with unique plant 

 material, an excellent bookstore, and the beginnings 

 of a 20-acre arboretum on the land next door; he is 

 described as "a specialist in everything " His topic 

 will be on one of these specialties: "Water Gardens 

 and Water Gardening." 



It's a full day, certainly one with plenty of variety. 

 For people that preregister, the price is $29.00 per 

 person and $20.00 for each guest from the same 

 business Non-members are $35.00. Registrations 

 should be sent to Guy Hodgdon, NHLA Business 

 Manager. 18 Debbie Lane, Eliot, Maine 03903; they 

 also can be made over the phone at 1-800-639-5601. 

 Without preregistration, it's $20.00, but you're on 

 your own for lunch. 



For information (there is no trade show; this is an 

 educational session only), contact Peter van Berkum 

 at 603-463-7663. 



NH PLANT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 

 The Plantsman Editor 

 UNH Research Greenhouses 

 Durham, NH 03824 



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