Speakers

Speaker	Date	Topic
Saturday Earth Day Project at Ellis Park	Apr 20, 2024	Shakespeare Garden Cleanup Breakfast and cleanup work. Time, location, work details to come... Reading: Earthday.org this year is April 22 2024 and about plastics vs the earth. Nature Conservancy reading
Cedar Rapids Freedom Fest - Karol Shepherd	Apr 25, 2024 7:00 AM	Freedom Fest 2024 Learn about all the activities planned >> https://www.freedomfestival.com/events
Mehgen MacDougall - Linn County Master Gardener	May 02, 2024 7:00 AM	Planning and Planting your 2024 Gardens! We are capturing your questions before May 2, so our speaker can bring answers! Mehgen MacDougall, a Master Gardener will speak and help us with spring planting. 1. Submit your questions to CRSunriseRotary@gmail.com 2. Come, listen, learn! And plan on the May 10-11 plant sale! https://www.extension.iastate.edu/linn/master-gardener-program 3. Then get your plants here! Details to follow on the website above. 2024 Spring Plant Sale May 10 - 11, 2024 Lowe Park Arts & Environment Center, Marion Join the Linn County Master Gardeners for our annual Charlene Woeste Memorial Plant Sale! Support our volunteers and fill your garden with high quality, locally grown plants. Our Questions/Topics suggested to our Speaker: Talk about the Master Gardeners Lowe Park plant sale May 10-11 How to access Master Gardeners when we have questions? What is a good "app" to identify plants? A dry year last year: Any advice if it continues this year? Plants to recommend, to avoid, and some watering techniques? Recommend 'no-mow' ground covers. Thyme? Clover? (2 people asked) Talk about 'companion plantings" - Which plants to plant together, or to keep away from each other. (2 people asked) What type of maintenance is needed for a yard-size prairie? I'll add: what cities codes allow this? Native plants you can recommend. Edible landscaping? Pollinator recommendations What can replace struggling sun-burned hosta after the derecho? Critter advice? Deer, rabbits, etc. What works, what does not? Repellant plants and sprays.
Christine Smart	May 09, 2024 7:00 AM	Downsizing! Simplify our lives... Members asked for a program on "Downsizing." Several agreed that Christine Smart of "Designing Moves" will help us learn. Their website: https://www.designingmoves.net/ Hello, my name is Christine Smart, and I started business plans for Designing Moves LLC® in the Fall of 2008. I have lived in the Cedar Rapids/Marion area for over 25 years. I received an associate degree from Kirkwood Community College in Interior Design and Business. I have free-lanced and worked at design oriented furniture stores in Cedar Rapids. I enjoy volunteering to help other women grow. I trained with Barbara Morris in February 2009. Barbara founded Smooth Transitions®. She is also co-founder of NASMM. Our team is a member of the Cedar Rapids Elderly Consortium and P.E.O. Launching Designing Moves LLC® has given me a sense of living my life on purpose and making a difference in other peoples lives. We are all here for a reason and as I look back over my life, many experiences I have encountered since I was a child have prepared me for Designing Moves LLC®!
Matthew Arndt -	May 16, 2024 7:00 AM	Meet us at the "Cultivate Hope Urban Farm" - What's Happening this year!? Join us "on the Farm"! We will meet at the Matthew 25 Cultivate Hope Urban Farm, learning what's happening there, and in the Matthew 25 food program. Matthew Arndt is teh Farm Leader hosting us. A light breakfast there - coffee and (tbd) - will get us started. Learn more here https://www.matthew-25.org/food/urban-farm/ Where? 437 G Ave NW, Cedar Rapids https://maps.app.goo.gl/E9qtnQipFCQ4g8Ph9
Families Helping Families Golf Fundraiser!	May 23, 2024 11:00 AM	Registration Site will be posted soon!