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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=3 color=black face=AGaramond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
AGaramond;color:black;font-weight:bold'>For Immediate Release</span></font></b></p>
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color=black face=AGaramond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:AGaramond;
color:black'>Contact: </span></font><font color=black face=AGaramond><span
style='font-family:AGaramond;color:black'>Laurie</span></font><font
color=black face=AGaramond><span style='font-family:AGaramond;color:black'>
Tompkins at 508-457-0495 x108</span></font></p>
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text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black face=AGaramond><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:AGaramond;color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=4 color=black face=AGaramond><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
AGaramond;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Ecological Landscaping and Gardening
Workshop at the </span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=black face=AGaramond><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:AGaramond;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Waquoit</span></font></b><b><font
size=4 color=black face=AGaramond><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
AGaramond;color:black;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font size=4
color=black face=AGaramond><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:AGaramond;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Bay</span></font></b><b><font size=4
color=black face=AGaramond><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:AGaramond;
color:black;font-weight:bold'> Research Reserve</span></font></b></p>
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size=3 face=AGaramond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:AGaramond;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'>On Friday,
April 25<sup>th,</sup> the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve will
be hosting the Cape Friendly Landscaping and Gardening Workshop at the </span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>Visitor</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'> </span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>Center</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'> from </span></font><font face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>8:30am</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'> to </span></font><font face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>3:00pm</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>. The course will highlight
ecological landscaping and organic gardening tips and techniques for
homeowners, garden club members and anyone interested in the natural habitat. The
new section on organic gardening has been added this year to satisfy the well
spring of interest in local food. The day will feature a locally grown lunch
from Coonemessett Farm.</span></font></p>
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face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'>Michael
Talbot, President, Michael Talbot Associates will share his expertise on safer
ways to care for your trees, shrubs and flowers using less irrigation and
little or no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. Michael </span></font>has
been developing, practicing, and teaching design, landscaping, tree, shrub and
lawn care methods for private and public landscapes for nearly two
decades--including work as staff horticulturist and educator for the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society and Boston Urban Gardeners. An I.S.A.
Certified Arborist, he is a well-known author and lecturer, teaching
professionals, homeowners and garden clubs throughout the region. He has
appeared on many radio and television programs, including The Victory Garden
and New England Chronicle, sharing his expertise on ecological landscape care.</p>
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face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'>Lindsay
Strode of </span></font><font face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>Cape</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'> </span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>Organics</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'> will present an overview of
ecological lawn care, creating and caring for your soil and maintaining an
organic lawn. Lindsay has a long established business as a professional
landscaper on the </span></font><font face=Garamond><span style='font-family:
Garamond'>Cape</span></font><font face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>
specializing in organic lawns. </span></font></p>
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face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'>Stan Ingram
will teach participants about the process of growing their own food-from soils
and seeds, to working with the season’s challenges of weather, diseases
and insects; right through to a healthy harvest. Stan grew up working on truck
farms in </span></font><font face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>Southeast
Massachusetts</span></font><font face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>,
was the Garden Manager at New Alchemy Institute in the 1980s. Stan recently
returned from a few years growing his own food in </span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>Maine</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'> to start a Community
Supported Agriculture program at Coonemessett Farm in Hatchville. </span></font></p>
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face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'>Joan Muller</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>, Education Coordinator at the
Waquoit Bay Reserve will include an overview of the benefits of ecological
landscaping, and introduce participants to some of the local programs and
resources available as well as lead an optional walk around the Reserve estate
grounds to point out native plants readily available as well some invasive
species to avoid. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond'> <font
color=black><span style='color:black'>The Waquoit Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve is </span></font>located at </span></font><font face=Garamond><span
style='font-family:Garamond'>149 Waquoit Highway</span></font><font
face=Garamond><span style='font-family:Garamond'>/Route 28 in Waquoit. A donation
of $15.00 to the Citizens for the Protection of Waquoit Bay is asked which
includes a locally grown lunch from the Coonemessett Farm. To register
please call 508-457-0495 x108 or email laurie.tompkins@state.ma.us.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Laurie Tompkins</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Event Coordinator</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Waquoit</span></font><font size=1
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:navy'> </span></font><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Bay</span></font><font
size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:navy'> National Estuarine Research Reserve</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>P.O. Box</span></font><font size=1
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:navy'> 3092</span></font></p>
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7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Waquoit</span></font><font size=1
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:navy'>, </span></font><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>MA</span></font><font
size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:navy'> </span></font><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>02536</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Tel. 508-457-0495 x108</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Fax 617-727-5537</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.waquoitbayreserve.org">www.waquoitbayreserve.org</a></span></font></p>
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