[ACT] Brown Bag Lunch Series

[Jared Liu]

Brown Bag Lunch Series

Live Online Event

Thursday, August 16, 2007
1:00- 2:00pm EST

Session:  Operating a Nursery, Community Garden, or Arboretum

Trainers: Mike Bradshaw, Interim Director, Texas Trees Foundation  
(Dallas, TX)
		   Glenda Daniel, Urban Greening Director, Openlands (Chicago, IL)

About the series:
The Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly webcast held at the lunch  
hour.  The overall goal is to create informal training opportunities  
for local urban and community forestry organizations.


The series is geared to mainly serve the needs of volunteer  
organizations and community groups.  While the webcasts are open to  
all, the content is most likely to be of interest to practitioners  
who work directly with the public, volunteers, or youth.


The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger  
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and approaches.  
Sessions are planned to last no more than one hour, with two  
presenters speaking on the same topic from slightly different  
perspectives, each for 10-15 minutes, followed by 10-15 minutes of  
questions and answers.


The Brown Bag Lunch Series is made possible through support from:






Description:
Operating a nursery, community garden, or small arboretum can enhance  
your organization's programming and, in some cases, provide  
unrestricted revenue to support your mission. Establishing and  
sustaining such an operation requires substantial commitment. Learn  
more about the challenges of site management, the business  
assumptions that sustain operations, and how these sites are used to  
enhance public education and outreach.

Brown Bag attendees will learn:
Successes and challenges
Integrating education, volunteers, and training into the program
Achieving financial and operational sustainability
Engaging funding partners
In 2002 TXU provided $140,000 in funding and 360 volunteers to create  
the nation's largest-known urban tree farm, operated by Texas Trees  
Foundation. The four-acre TXU Urban Tree Farm at Richland College  
features state-of-the-art production and irrigation technology with  
the capacity to produce 7,000 ten-gallon trees per planting season.  
Trees are offered to the public through the Trees For Texas program.  
In order to meet community needs and provide income to the  
foundation, in 2005 the Foundation opened a $350,000 ten-acre  
Hamilton Park Tree Farm in a remote parking lot of Texas Instruments.  
The site is ideally suited for above-ground growing of the larger,  
twenty-gallon trees. It is covered with asphalt, drains well, is in  
close proximity to water, and is fenced and secure.

Openlands runs an educational arboretum that teaches about trees  
through multi-divisional curriculum (math, science, social studies,  
language arts, etc.). There are 50 active teachers with the program,  
and several hundred that use the resources. The Arboretum is  
maintained by Openlands' TreeKeeper volunteers. As a next step, the  
arboretum will be expanding to a public walk focusing on native,  
shade, and ornamental trees. The project came about because Openlands  
didn't have a site of their own. Previously they were helping others  
community gardens to thrive, but now they have a permanent place in  
which to stage programs.

Register for the webcast or go to:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0K5zJ8_2ft69lM5Wv_2bd9Jb4w_3d_3d


Next session: September 20, 2007, Getting Into Greenroofs.


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