The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester welcomes new Director and CEO Dr. Jordana Pomeroy on Sept. 1. For the past nine and a half years Pomeroy has been the Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Museum at Florida International University in Miami. She has a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University and more than three decades of experience in the art world. She moved to Manchester in early July, and in a recent phone interview she spoke of her plans for leading the Currier. Here’s an edited version of the conversation.
How will your experience at Florida International University inform your role at the Currier?
The mission of the Frost is to teach and to expose students … and get the faculty using art in their curricula. Then, secondarily, the public. So here … I am excited that we are connecting with New England College to bring students in; that’s very important to me. I call it ‘educate the next generation.’ I’ve been very impressed with the Currier’s education programs and I’ll do everything to keep encouraging and growing those programs, because I think that the next generation of museumgoers, that investment, is really important for us to make as an institution.
Have you thought about some of the ways to bring in people who may not have experienced the Currier before?
It’s just talking to people. There’s a woman, for example … who is a seamstress from Africa. We had this long conversation about how she ended up in Manchester. She makes these beautiful outfits from Africa, from fabric that she imports…. She’s exactly the kind of person that I would love to bring in as a community voice if we did a show around fashion or design. Sometimes, especially in a city the size of Manchester and a state the size of New Hampshire, you get to know people and communities pretty quickly. That’s what excites me, just talking to people and finding out if they know the Currier or have never heard of it before, and trying to figure out what it is that would get them through the door.
You’ve talked about expanding inclusion and focusing on women artists. What’s your vision in that area for the Currier?
I think we’re doing a good job. Actually, we have a wonderful contemporary art curator, Lorenzo Fusi, who’s been pretty well focused on that since he was hired. I think you’re kind of living in the dark if that isn’t your concern as a curator or museum director, to be honest. Museums move glacially, especially the larger ones, and there’s really been a significant change in programming. That being said, I worked for many years at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. There was always this conversation that as soon as there’s equity in the arts, we’ll close, which I don’t see that happening anytime soon in any way. This is not going to be overnight, but the thinking is there, and the conversations are happening. It’s not just the programming, but also the exhibitions.
What do you see as your biggest challenge as you step into the role of director and CEO at Currier?
I think my biggest challenge is spending time to really understand the history of this state and this region. I can’t pretend to know it. I’m not from here, and I don’t want to come across as knowing what the Currier needs to be for this area of the country. I know certain things, because I’m a museum professional, and I have colleagues who run museums [but] we’re all from elsewhere [and] can’t pretend to know that. But I do think it’s important for me to kind of put down roots and listen a lot. I don’t know if that’s a challenge, but it’s a good challenge to have. There are other challenges in raising money. That’s always the challenge. With time, donors will come forth. They’ll see the difference that the museum makes to the region. There have been some very good, loyal members and donors, and I would like to, of course, increase that pool of interest in the institution. I think that has to do with impact and seeing good things come out of it, whether those are the different kinds of exhibitions or sorts of programs. There’s a lot going on there. I’m really impressed for a museum its size. There’s an Art for Vets program. For contemporary [art], we’ve got just a remarkable collection that I want to draw on more. So I think you will see more of the permanent collection than you’ve seen in recent years.
Featured image: Monsters. Photos by Zachary Lewis.
On the exterior walls of buildings in Concord, Manchester and Nashua, you can find a wealth of murals, some commissioned by organizations or businesses, others semi-spontaneous expressions of artistic passion.
David Hady is one of the people behind some of Manchester’s murals. As Creative Director of the Orbit Group in Manchester he helps up-and-coming artists, including street artists, get a toe-hold in the notoriously difficult art field.
“Part of what Orbit Group wants to do is give back and contribute to the Manchester local arts community,” Hady said. “One of our arms does property development and another one of our arms is centered on the arts. We’re trying to find emerging artists who are looking for stepping stones to cross this bridge so that they can step toward their professional career.”
One of Orbit’s early projects was revitalizing Cat Alley in Manchester.
“Cat Alley was originally painted in 2011,” Hady said. “We did a local [artist] submission and we had around 60 people apply. We chose 18 artists and we cleaned up the alley, primed it all, then prepared the different spaces for each artist to come in and create their own version of cat artwork. We kind of gave them free rein to do whatever they wanted, as long as it was cat-centric. They created a bunch of different styles, colors and aesthetics, which is really nice.”
Another project is an Art Walk Scavenger Hunt Map, to help visitors to Manchester find murals and other outdoor art they might not be familiar with. It is a map of downtown Manchester, with 42 works of public art plotted on it.
Storrs Street mural by James Chase, Concord. Photo by Zachary Lewis.
“We’re trying to create multiple avenues of things for people to do downtown,” Hady said. “This just kind of layers into an afternoon. You have lunch, you go to a Fisher Cats game and then maybe you do this art tour and it’s all kind of centered within a one-and-a-half-mile radius. It’s got a bunch of great locations of sculptures and mural works.”
James Chase is an Associate Professor at New England College, and the founder of Art Builds Community, an organization with a mission to connect and empower the community through the Arts. Chase said that one of the organization’s strengths is its grass-roots nature.
“It’s led by artists and creators and community members through shared art experiences,” he said. “I think the art that is out in the public has been blossoming, especially over the last few years, as residents are comfortable lending their walls for voices to be heard.” Public acceptance of street art has been growing, he said.
“When I first started doing murals, it was a little, ‘Oh, it’s graffiti! I don’t want you to put a mark on our building and degrade it.’ And what I’ve noticed now is a lot more people are coming to the table to bring change and to make areas destinations, to have them be conversation pieces,” Chase said.
Chase sees public art as a form of dialogue that a community has with itself.
“I think it’s really important to have a [clear vision of] where you can bend [and] where you can’t. But everyone has been so accommodating. And even if people don’t get to physically sometimes pick up a paintbrush, they get to see their voice, their mark. And lots of times they’re actually painting too, which is even more amazing,” he said.
“Cooking and Basketball,” by Amanda Hill, painted for the Mural Festival in 2022. Chestnut Street, Manchester. Photo by John Fladd.
He cited two murals under traffic bridges along the Piscataquog Rail Trail on the West Side of Manchester.
“Once again, it was a collective group of people,” Chase said. “What I love about those types of projects is when people come together, something new is going to happen. Just from afar, I had helped, my students were going to do that project and just with the timing it didn’t work out.” Eventually, he said, a group of local artists and community members ended up painting the murals.
Amber Nicole Cannan was one of the organizers responsible for getting the murals completed. She sees them as another example of a community dialogue.
“We wanted to make sure we were including lots of community members,” she said, “[to make sure we included a] wide variety of opinions and perspectives, and we all worked together to get it done. We grabbed anyone who would walk by and asked them to participate, and a lot of people contributed to it.”
Cannan said that conditions were not ideal for painting a mural. “It was a unique challenge,” she said, “because obviously that spot is far from any electrical hookups or water or bathroom.” Eventually, she got permission to park at an apartment on the street above and used her car as a power station for the equipment the artists needed. Cannan said there was another unexpected complication. “We did run into a small snag. We were told the city would prime it for us. But they painted it with anti-graffiti paint.”
Despite technical challenges, and some backlash from some community members, for the most part the murals have been embraced by the community, including an unexpected part of it.
“It became really interesting,” Cannan said, “because while we were there, notes would get left on what we were working on, like the paint pens and Sharpies. It was mostly from the transitory population. And they just talked about how beautifying that space made them feel thought of. They said they saw themselves in it, and they just felt the love from it. And that was really important to us.”
Yazamine Safarzadeh sees a growing and surprising amount of support for street art. She is the Special Projects Coordinator forPositive Street Art, a group based in Nashua dedicated to bringing under-represented voices to public spaces.
“We have a very good relationship with the city of Nashua,” she said. “I’ve never seen such a copacetic relationship between the city and an arts organization which, in turn, benefits the city. We can’t do what we do without the support of the community.”
Safarzadeh said Positive Street Art has spent the past few years building a relationship with people who rarely see themselves in the art around them.
“We’ve had multiple-year relationships with nonprofits who trust us and let us come into this space with the demographics that are highly, highly vulnerable because we too are from those demographics. So that’s a really unique thing about this organization is you’re, you know, we’re serving the community, but we’re also of the community’s working class,” she said.
Local mural artists have seen more and more support in recent years from the business community, as well.
815 Cocktails & Provisions is a plush bar in downtown Manchester. There are comfortable chairs and sofas, the lighting and the music is soft and the drinks innovative, like the Smoked Lemon Drop or the Moxie Mule. And then there are the murals. Roughly two thirds of the bar’s wallspace is covered with floor-to-ceiling murals.
They were painted by Nashua artist Jason McDonald, who goes by the name JayMac and paints under the name @The_Backstah. He has been an artist for 30 years.
Mural at 815 Cocktails & Provisions by Jason McDonald. Photo by John Fladd.
“I started off as a graffiti artist in Boston as a young kid,” McDonald said. “I actually got in a bunch of trouble when I was younger for graffiti, and then as I grew older and got more into artwork, I turned it more, honed it more professionally and positive and turned it into a career.” After years of work, he has developed a following and is becoming a known name in the art world.
“I do everything from custom canvases all the way to big murals to my own clothing as well,” McDonald said. “I have all kinds of projects, anything from cartoon to realism to flowers to lettering. I’ve done custom cars. I’ve done projects for Porsche and Acura. The most recent big wall I did was for UMass Memorial for their mental health building. They have an outside fresh air space, and I redid the basketball area. We did a positive hopscotch and a mural going over the whole side of the building.”
JayMac sees Manny Ramirez from Positive Street Art as a guiding force in local art. “His stuff is fantastic,” he said. “Manny’s probably, as far as this area, the only other artist that I’ve really seen who has an in with the city where he’s been able to get some really prime locations for his murals.”
James Chase summed up the burgeoning local mural scene: “I see all these pieces of the puzzles really fostering connections,” he said, “and then giving more platforms for things that we don’t even know about yet.”
New murals
Arts Builds Community held its second Community Canvas Mural Festival in August, resulting in new public murals in Manchester. At the Boys & Girls Club of Manchester at 555 Union St. you can see the work of Sophy Tuttle (560 Union St.); Jason Naylor (161 Lowell St.); and Alex Ferror (163 Lowell St.), according to ABC.
Sophy Tuttle (560 Union St.)Alex Ferror (163 Lowell St.)
Jason Naylor (161 Lowell St.)
At 77 Amherst St., behind the Palace Theatre, there’s the work of Liz Pieroni, Nick Alexander, Jozimar Matimano and Ambar Ruiz. (All photos below by Zachary Lewis.)
Murals at 77 Amherst St. featuring artists Liz Pieroni, Nick Alexander, Jozimar Matimano and Ambar Ruiz.
Cat Alley, Manchester
Cat Alley is located on the west side of Elm Street in downtown Manchester, next to Bookery (844 Elm St., Manchester, 836-6600, bookerymht.com). It was originally painted with cat-themed murals in 2011. The Orbit Group commissioned independent artists to paint new murals in 2022. For more information on this project, visit orbitgroup.com/cat-alley-revival. Photos by John Fladd.
“Electric Cat,” by Liz LaManche
“Superhero Cat,” by Emily Drouin
“Scaredy Cats,” by Dei Xhrist
Arms Park pillars, Manchester
The traffic pillars in Arms Park (10 Arms St., Manchester) that support the Notre Dame Bridge were painted by a collaboration of artists and Art Builds Community. Photos by John Fladd.
Manny Ramirez
Manny Ramirez (@phelany) is the co-founder and Creative Director of Positive Street Art (48 Bridge St., Nashua, positivestreetart.org). He is one of the leading muralists in the business. Photos by Chris Boncoddo.
“Be Like Water,” at Millyard Strength and Conditioning (10 Cotton St., Nashua)
“Young Heroes,” at Police Athletic League Center (52 Ash St., Nashua)
“Nostalgia,” at 174 Main St., Nashua
Jyl Dittbenner
Jyl Dittbenner is a prolific local artist and muralist. She posts her work online at JylDrawsEveryDay.wordpress.com. Here are some of her notable murals. Photos by John Fladd.
Bees on the rear wall of the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester)
“Jazz It Up,” on the rear wall of the Rex Theatre (823 Amherst St., Manchester)
“Hanging the Load,” on the north face of the north pillar in Arms Park (10 Arms St., Manchester)
A Tardigrade, on the back wall of the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester)
Union Street, Manchester
Union Street is a great place to see surprising murals. There is a pair of excellent murals on the rear wall of the Seven Days Market (360 Union St., Manchester, 622-4331). Photos by John Fladd.
Pandas in headphones, artist unknown
“Small City, Big Dreams,” on the corner of Union and Auburn streets, Manchester. Mural by Colby Goon.
“Anthony’s Mural,” east side of Union Street, Manchester, near Fernandez Deli, between Lake Street and Lake Street Setback. By Debbie Curtain and Anthony Williams.
Don’t miss this year’s Hopkinton State Fair, a Labor Day weekend tradition happening today through Monday, Sept. 2, at the Fairgrounds (392 Kearsarge Ave., Contoocook). See hsfair.org and check out the Kiddie Pool column on page 18 for more details.
Thursday, Aug. 29
Get an early start on the last (unofficial) weekend of summer with some “Piano Man” at Scenes: A Billy Joel Experience tonight at 7:15 p.m. at LaBelle Winery in Derry. Tickets cost $40; see labellewinery.com.
Friday, Aug. 30
Monstersongs presented by Actorsingers opens today in Nashua. “Monstersongs puts audiences in a synthesized world of graphic novels, rock musicals, live performance and new technology. … Monstersongs flips the switch on the monster narrative, inviting audiences to explore the humanity that binds us all,” according to actorsingers.org. The production runs today and Saturday, Aug. 31, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 1, at 2 p.m. at Janice B. Streeter Theatre (14 Court St., Nashua). Tickets cost $20 for adults, $18 for students (plus online fees).
Friday, Aug. 30
Tribute band Marcus Rezak’s Gumbo Live Phish Experience will perform at the Bank of New Hampshire Stage (16 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111, ccanh.com) tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $24 in advance, $5 more at the door.
Friday, Aug. 30
Jewel Music Venue (61 Canal St., Manchester, 819-9336, jewelmusicvenue.com) hosts Leathal Weekend 7, a shredding Labor Day weekend event, through Sunday, Sept. 1. Seventeen intense bands will take to the stage over three days, including Kottonmouth Kings, First Jason, Dr. Gigglez, Problemattik, and Lex the Hex Master. This is an 18+ event; ID is required. Single-day passes are $35; weekend passes are $90. Tickets are available through eventbrite.com.
Saturday, Aug. 31
Labor Day weekend is a big weekend for paintball. Paintball companies throughout the region are holding special events this weekend, including AG Paintball (158 Deering Center Road, Weare, 529-3524, agpaintball.com) and OSG Paintball (1053 North Barnstead Road. Center Barnstead, 800-707-7529, osgpaintball.com).
Saturday, Aug. 31
There will be a Taylor & Olivia Dance Party at the BNH Stage (16 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111, ccanh.com) tonight at 7 p.m. Vampires and Lovers should be ready to spill their guts and shake it off on the dancefloor to Taylivia faves. This is an all-ages event. Tickets are $21.75 and are available at ccanh.com.
Save the Date! Sunday, Sept. 15 Less Leg More Heart (lesslegmoreheart.com), which supports amputees, will host a Firetruck Team Pull at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery (221 DW Highway, Merrimack)h) on Sunday, Sept. 15, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Teams of up to 12 get two attempts to pull a 40,000- to 60,000-pound fire engine 50 feet. The top three teams will win a trophy. Individuals can also pull a 1938 antique fire truck weighing nearly 11,000 pounds. The top three individuals will win a trophy. Registration is currently free for teams with a pledge to raise $250 in fundraising; individual registration is $25. Register at lesslegmoreheart.com/events.
In an Aug. 23 article, New Hampshire Public Radio reported that the producers of Netflix’s Love Is Blind are scouting out New England as a potential location for its reality dating show. NHPR reported that in addition to looking for potential filming locations, producer Donna Driscroll is hoping to cast New England singles in the show, where couples get to know each other through conversation without being able to see or touch each other.
QOL score: +1
Comment: Apply to be on the show at libcasting.com.
Not your typical commute
If all goes according to plan, when you read this Stratham resident Scott Poteet will be closer to the moon than anybody has been since 1972. As reported in an Aug. 20 online story by New Hampshire Public Radio, the SpaceX Polaris Dawn Mission, which was expected to launch Tuesday, Aug. 27, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will travel more than 1,000 km past the orbit of the International Space Station, and Poteet is its pilot. “Over the course of their five days in space, the crew plans to complete the first commercial space walk,” NHPR reported, “test SpaceX’s Starlink communication system, and conduct more than 40 experiments to better understand the effects of space travel on astronauts.” Poteet, who grew up in Durham and graduated from the UNH, has trained for this mission for the past two years, along with fellow astronauts SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis, and billionaire Jared Issacman, who paid for the Polaris program and has traveled to space on other self-funded missions.
QOL score: +1
Comment: Poteet told NHPR that this mission’s crew spent a lot of time getting “comfortable in uncomfortable scenarios,” by training on simulators, climbing mountains, and even skydiving.
Tank-treaded chair means more park access
As reported by the Concord Monitor (.concordmonitor.com) on Aug. 21, a new mobility chair recently acquired by Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown has made parts of the park newly accessible to some visitors. The motorized chair, with tank-like treads instead of wheels, is designed to clamber over rocks and branches and through sand and mud, and has opened up new areas to many types of park guests, including some the Park staff hadn’t considered. “We expected it would be people with mobility challenges,” Christina Pacuk, Manager of Bear Brook State Park, told the Monitor, “but we’ve also heard from people on oxygen who are not able to traverse the trails normally. They want to go with their family but can’t. Some elderly people say ‘I haven’t been able to get out like I used to and I want to be able to have that experience again.’”
QOL score: +1
Comment:Users report that the main drawback of the new chair is getting so engrossed in exploring that the battery runs low.
QOL score: 75
Net change: +3
QOL this week: 78
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The Big Story – Pats Pre-Season Ends: After a 20-10 loss to Washington, the Patriots closed the preseason at 1-2.
Two things jumped out in the game: (1) While they did run for 139 yards, the O-line was awful. It had eight penalties called on it in the first half alone and got JacobyBrissett hurt on the first series. (2) Yes, the Washington D is as bad, but DrakeMaye was solid again in going 13-29 for 126 yards and two TD passes (one called back). He also had a nice 17-yard scamper out of the pocket.
Cut-down Day to 53 players was Tuesday, then comes the biggest question: After another strong outing will Maye be the starting QB in the opener in Cincinnati on Sept. 8?
Sports 101: Last week Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 20 homers and steal 60 bases in the same year. Name the other four who also did it.
News Item – Big 3 Now Big 4: With the Red Sox wild card chances fading after being swept by the D-Backs at Fenway over the weekend to drop five games back, attention may be shifting to AAA Worcester. Their top four prospects have been promoted — MarceloMayer, KevinTeel and RomanAnthony (three homers in his first 11 games) a few weeks ago, followed by the latest call-up, KristianCampbell. With Campbell and Anthony hitting .421 and .341 respectively they’re creating a lot of excitement and living up to their ranking for being among baseball’s top 65 prospects. Stay tuned to what they all do in the Woo Sox’ last four weeks.
News Item – Danny Jansen and Baseball History: If it comes off, history will have been made before you see this and after my deadline. But since AlexCora says his new catcher would be in the line-up for Monday night (Aug. 26) when they resume their suspended (due to rain) game with Toronto from June 26 that had him at the plate for the Blue Jays, I’ll confidently say Jansen will have/did become the first person in history to appear in the same game for two different teams when he got behind the plate for Boston Monday night.
The Numbers:
18 – homers hit in the first inning already this year by Yankees slugger AaronJudge to tie the all-time record set by A-Rod in 2001.
24 – million dollars and change paid at auction for the jersey BabeRuth wore the day he made his famous called shot at Wrigley Field in the 1932 World Series.
… Of the Week Award
Spectacular Moment of the Week – Shohei Ohtani: That was quite a way for the Dodgers star to enter the 40-40 club earlier than any player (in Game 126), with a walk-off grand slam to beat Tampa 7-3 after stealing his 40th base earlier in the game on Friday.
Alumni News – Triple Crown Ahead: My prediction was that after his never-ending injury troubles in Boston ChrisSale was going to win 15 games with Atlanta. Now that he leads the NL with 14 he’s likely going way past that. But what I didn’t see was him winning the pitching triple crown, which by also leading in ERA at 2.62 and strikeouts with 183 he’s currently on pace to do.
A Little History – Braves Pitching: Even with 369-game-winner WarrenSpahn and their Hall of Fame Big 3 from the 1990s, if Sale pulls off the triple C, he’ll be the franchise’s first to do it since JohnClarkson in 1889 when they were the Beaneaters in Boston. He went 49-19 with a 2.73 ERA and 284 k’s in 72 starts with 68 complete games over an astonishing 620 innings.
Of course he died at 47, so maybe that took its toll!
Random Thoughts:
Seeing GuerschonYabusele play so well in the Olympics after being an overweight jump-shooting bust with the C’s made me sick to my stomach. But now he’s the opposite, in shape, physical, crashes the glass and plays hard. So good move by Philly to sign him even if it gets my goat.
Sports 101 Answer: The others in the 20-60 club are JoeMorgan and RickyHenderson (twice each) and Atlanta’s RonaldAcuna did it last year (27 and 73).
Final Thought – Thumbs Up Red Sox Brass: Remember how the talk shows were all over the Red Sox for not signing free agent lefty JordanMontgomery lastwinter?
The problem was he was a career fifth starter made out to be SandyKoufax after two good months with Texas as they won the World Series. Well, if you were squawking, they were right and you were wrong. In 19 starts with Arizona the ERA was 6.44 amid calls to send him to the bullpen.Moral of the story: Never invest big after a rental’s hot pennant race run that goes beyond what the career wrap sheet says someone is.
Master Gardener Joyce Kimball is the Publicity Chair and former president of the Bow Garden Club and a former president and current executive board member of The New Hampshire Federation of Garden Clubs. Bow Garden Club maintains 10 “beauty spots,” such as the town gazebo. They generally hold meetings on the second Monday of every month at 6 p.m. starting again on Monday, Sept. 9, with an educational program by Advanced Gardener Ron Trexler from UNH Cooperative Extension, who will speak on preparing gardens for winter. People are encouraged to stop by a meeting to see if they are interested in joining. Kimball spoke about the Bow Garden Club and some end-of-summer garden tips. Visit bowgardenclub.org.
How did the Bow Garden Club get started with the New Hampshire Federation of Garden Clubs?
It’s kind of a nice little story. It was three women from Bow that were just sitting around talking about plants and flowers and they decided to start a garden club. I’m not quite sure, because that was back in 1964, a little before my time, I was alive but I wasn’t part of a club. It was 1964 and it just kind of went from there. They joined the state garden club, which is called New Hampshire Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc., which is a consortium of like 18 to 20, I think right now, area garden clubs across the state.
What is the New Hampshire Federation of Garden Clubs?
Every state in the country has a federated garden club and we’re under the umbrella of the national garden club. We have regional and national, so we get out there as far as covering anyone that’s at all interested in plants or anything green. Some people are vegetable gardeners but most are floral gardeners, or both…. We act as ambassadors from the state garden club to go out to the local garden clubs to make them aware of benefits … like learning how to do floral arranging, that kind of thing, things that are available to them through the state organization and sometimes even the national organization. So just a way for people with like minds and interests to get together…
Who can join the Bow Garden Club?
One club may include five or six towns. It all depends on how big they are. Bow, for instance, has 70 members, which is a lot for our size town. Most of them are from Bow. But we also have someone from Manchester, somebody from Derry chose to join us because we’re one of the few that have evening meetings. We have somebody from Pembroke, Concord, and I think that may be it right now. Oh, actually we have one from Australia because our president just went to Australia and she is staying as a member. So we really branch out.
What are a few garden tips for this time of year?
Because [plants have] grown so fast with the heat and the extra water … I would advise people to cut them back. There’s still plenty of time to let them reflower. If they’re looking kind of leggy, as we call them, with long stems, or if the blossoms have gone by you should cut those off anyways to encourage new stems. It’s a little too soon to start cleaning the garden, that shouldn’t happen till October, or as we call it, ‘putting the garden to bed,’ so to speak. That’s when you cut them all down to the ground, but way too early for that. .
What can one expect at a garden club meeting?
Don’t worry about eating because we call it the Food and Garden Club because we can cook as well as we can garden. We have one of our committees, the refreshment committee, people are assigned a certain meeting to come up with a theme and provide the refreshments. I think people come for the food as much as anything else. We don’t meet during July and August, we do other things, we have a ‘Cocktails in the Garden’ we did recently…. We have an educational program at every meeting that starts at 6:30 and usually goes for like an hour.
