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2007 Community Landscaping Conference to be Held in Mahopac
The 2007 Community Landscaping Conference is an ideal opportunity for landscape professionals, planners and elected officials to learn more about how conservation landscaping can help develop better communities and offer more for people and their public spaces. Communities that use environmentally sound practices to develop or enhance public space can benefit - and so can landscapers - from designing and building with new technologies.
Spend the day learning about: ·Conservation Landscaping: Sustainability on a Budget ·Rain Gardens and Stormwater Management ·Managing Turf in High Traffic Areas ·Better Site Design: A New Tool for Communities.
The conference will be held on Wednesday, February 7, 2007, at Putnam National Golf Course in Mahopac, from 8:30am to 4pm. This conference is sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of the Hudson Valley, the sevencounty group representing commercial horticulture in the lower Hudson Valley. The organization also sponsors Greenhouse & Growers School (January), Perennials Conference (December), regional pesticide training, Arborist Certification Training and more.
Registration is open to professionals, community officials, civic associations and their volunteers, community planners and others interested in sustainable community landscaping. The fee for the entire day is $70, which includes breakfast, lunch and coffee. Register through Cornell Cooperative Extension of Putnam County, 1 Geneva Road, Brewster, NY 10509. Download the registration form at
www. c c e . c o r n e l l . e d u / Putnam
or call 845-278-6738, or email dko3@cornell.edu or jjs95@cornell.edu for the forms.
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