Warren Ham, from August’s Garden will be our guest speaker the first Tuesday of April (April 7th) at 7:30 p.m. in the Seniors Centre auditorium at Tillsonburg Community Centre. Warren grew a ¼ acre of garlic 27 years ago. Over the years Warren has been a part of growing fields of garlic  from 1  to 100 acres.  The farm has supplied some of the major grocery chains across Canada and the US, but mainly   providing garlic seed to individual growers, farmers, and seed houses across North America.  August’s Harvest brokers local garlic crops, as well as importing from the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Chile.

Guest speaker, Nancy Anderson from Whistling Gardens will speak on Horticultural Therapy.

 The 2015 Board of Directors of the Tillsonburg Horticultural Society were sworn into office at the January General Meeting.

Back Row (L – R) Diana Thompson, Catherine Burke, Ben Janssens, Albert Acre, Penny Esseltine, Jan Torrell, Monique Booth, Juley Van Daalen, Dena Luyt, Mignonne Trepanier, Marie Smith,
Front Row (L – R) Marian Smith, Judi Misener, Karen Banks, Christine Nagy
Absent: Sandra Lambrecht, Joan Massicotte, Carol Maybury

2014 Junior Gardeners

This past year, there were 116 enthusiastic young gardeners who participated in our Junior Gardener program. The children picture here attended the year-end pizza party and received awards for the gardening efforts. We are looking to expand this programme in 2015.