Meeting Minutes: December 2018, our last Burnett Garden Club Meeting

Kris called the meeting to order at 7:35 on December 13

Election of officers was the only agenda item. Since there were no members willing to step up to the positions of President and Vice President, Kris proposed that we dissolve the club. Other options were discussed.

A motion was made by Pam, amended by Charlene and seconded by Mary C that we set February 1, 2019 as the date of dissolution of the club as the board still has to meet to decide how to disburse funds. The motion carried.

The board will meet sometime in January. They are Kris, Mary C, Linnea, Charlene and Pam. Members are welcome. Mary C proposed meeting at her house where she would serve a meal. The date TBD and will be posted on the blog.

The club thought that funds should go toward beautification efforts, possibly a bench and planter boxes at the Grantsburg sign or an escrow account for flowers to be used by the Village. If you have ideas on how the funds should be disbursed, please send them to Kris or Pam or bring them to the board meeting. If you would like your dues returned to you for 2019, please let Kris, Pam or Charlene know.

Kris will talk to the village to let them know we will no longer be planting the sign garden.

Pam and Sandy will take care of taking the holiday display down.

This has been a very sad decision for the club to take. 

Holiday Potluck Delightful as Ever!!

Twelve members and three spouses gathered to celebrate the holidays with a delicious potluck meal and the traditional dice game! Here are a few snaps of the evenings festivities.

Couldn't get everyone around the table, sorry Georgianne!

At the kid's table!!

A little peak at the evening fare

Gathering for the meeting before the dice game.

A fine looking group! Thanks Alan for taking the picture.

Thanks so much to Rhonda and Alan for hosting the 2018 holiday party. We all had a great time!

2018 Holiday in the Park Display!

If you haven't gotten to Holiday in the Park in Grantsburg, come check it out!! Here is the Garden Club's contribution to the festivities.

A team effort by Sandy, Lisa and Pam!

Hope to see you all later at the party!

Holiday Potluck at Rhonda's! December 13, 6:00 PM

Our last meeting of 2018! Wow, this year has gone by fast! Come celebrate at Rhonda's Thursday, December 13th at 6:00 PM (or whenever you can get there!)

Please RSVP to Rhonda  (ajrj85@gmail.com) to let her know what sort of dish you are bringing: appetizer, entree, side dish, salad, bread, dessert.  And if you are bringing a guest/significant other. 

Kris is bringing Swedish meatballs.
Pam is bringing ahhh, don't know yet.

We will be having our traditional gift exchange. Bring a wrapped gift $10.00 limit (homemade is encouraged!!) for optional exchange via dice game!!

Spouses/significant others always welcome!!

We will have our election of officers at a brief meeting. We will also try to set up the 2019 planning committee meeting for sometime in early January. Programs for members should be ready by the February meeting.

Address: 13035 State Rd 48. 

Directions fFrom Grantsburg at stoplight:

South on 87 – 4 ½ miles

East on 48 about 1 mile

#13035 long driveway, south side, gray 2 story house, white porch w/ lights

Directions from Siren or Webster on Hwy 70:

South on Williams Road – 4 ½ miles

West on 48 about 1 mile

#13035 long driveway, south side, gray 2 story house, white porch w/ lights

Hope to see you all at Rhonda's!!

Correction to minutes: We still need a President for 2019

Correction to minute of the November 2018 meeting. Georgianne did not offer to be co-president with Kris. We still need a candidate for the position of president for 2019. Sorry for the misinformation.
Pam

Holiday Gnome Workshop

After the meeting on Thursday, Mary G conducted a holiday gnome making workshop and it was great fun. Here are a few pictures of the evening's activity!

Mary getting set up

Lots of fun holiday socks and accessories to choose from

Sandy and Kris stuff a bag of rice into a sock for the gnome body

Fitting just the right hat...

is a two person job too!

The finished result! Couldn't be cuter!

Cynthia and Alma provided refreshments. You can see the gnome theme cupcakes in this last picture--at least what was left of them! A big thank you to Mary for the fun workshop and to Alma and Cynthia for the great refreshments!

Meeting Minutes: November 2018

Burnett Garden Club
Meeting Minutes for November 8, 2018

Present: Kris, Janet, Georgianne, Pam, Mary G, Sandy, Alma, Cynthia

Kris called the meeting to order at 6:40 PM

No new members or visitors present

Secretary’s Report : Minutes posted to the blog. No corrections or addition. Janet made a motion to approve minutes as posted, seconded by Georgianne. Unanimously approved.

Treasurer’s Report --treasurer not present. No report

Announcements/Upcoming events

• North Woods Community Fair Nov 17 9-2 at Grantsburg High School; benefits community ed
• National Daylily Convention in Madison July 10-13, 2019
• Pink Squirrel, occasional sale shop on Main/Madison in Grantsburg opened in October. They will open Wed-Sunday on the third weekend of the month. Antiques, collectibles, vintage, home decor, clothing, seasonal. Linnea and Rhonda from the club both have booths as well as Carrie Byers. 26 vendors in all.

Standing Committee Reports:

       Community plantings:

• Fairgrounds--Ruth will be chair
• Flagpole--Pam will be chair
• Library--Pam will be chair
• Sign--Kris will be chair; pink petunias were great this year. Will check with Dean on what to do about white petunias not as vigorous as the pink. 

       Other committees:

• Grantoberfest--Pam will chair
• Holiday in the Park--Sandy will chair; Tentatively planning to set up Nov 19 Monday early evening. Sandy will contact Lisa for stand and giant wreath. Pam has sign post for sign and bells and large balls etc provided by Sandy. Pam also has tomato trellis lighted trees.
• Plant Sale--Need Chair, Kris will help and do potting party. Sale s/b June 1, 2019
• Tours--Linnea to Chair?
• Holiday party: let Rhonda know what you will be bringing and how many attending, next year at Library.

Old Business:

• Sign up sheets passed around
• Suggestions from last meeting:

1. more guest speakers
2. hold meeting at an easier place to find and easier access to building--Pam will check with Library again and Grantsburg Town Hall, Kris to check with Trinity Church in Falun

New Business: Election of officers:

• President: Open
• Vice President: Kris willing to take this on
• Secretary: Pam offered to be secretary
• Treasurer: Charlene will continue
• Blog/notification: Pam
• We will have official election and installation of officers at the holiday party
• Planning committee will meet after election
• Question--Do we want to do an audit of books. It is in the by-laws (#1 section 2-D; the executive committee is responsible for conducting an audit in October).

No Other Business
Brag time: none
Adjourn Pam moved to adjourn/sandy seconded. Adjourned at 7:30
Program: Mary Griesback's Sock Gnome Workshop, thank you to her.
Refreshments: Thank you to Alma and Cynthia

Meeting Reminder: Thursday November 8 6:30 PM

We will be meeting November 8 Thursday for a regular meeting at 6:30 PM at Grantsburg High School room 115.

• Agenda: Election of Officers for 2019, set up date for board meeting to finalize plans for 2019
• Program: "Holiday Gnome Workshop" $5.00 project fee. Presented by Mary Griesbach
• Refreshments: Alma and Cynthia

  Please RSVP for the Holiday Gnome Workshop to Mary gcyram13@gmail.com

Sock Gnomes project by Mary Griesbach

Each participant should bring 3+ cups of dry, uncooked rice or beans (rice will be cheaper, but beans work really good too), glue gun and glue sticks, scissors, and any assorted ribbons, buttons and other embellishments they think they might like to use. I will provide everything else through my own personal stash and parts purchased. In order for someone to think about what they might like to bring themselves for their gnome, they can go to YouTube and view a couple videos about how to make Sock Gnomes. My method is a blend of what they are going to see in the videos.

Materials cost will be $5.00 for each kit.

Don't worry if you don't have a glue gun, there will be enough to share! If we remember to bring them!!

Hope to see you all there!! 

Meeting Minutes: October 2018

Burnett Garden Club
October 11, 2018 Agenda

Meeting called to order at 6:36 PM by Kris Henning.

Welcome – Visitor – Bonnie Wicklund (who accompanied Kris on Scandinavian tour and will
assist with tonight’s presentation)

Secretary’s Report

• Minutes from September by Linnea as posted on the blog amended under “Old Business” - there was a wrap up of the 30th Anniversary Party.
• Motion to approve amended blog minutes by Janet,  Second by Rhonda.  Approved.

Treasurer’s Report by Charlene Strabel

• Current Balance $1912.85
• It was noted that the Village has not yet sent us their $300 pledge. 
• There was discussion on the mechanism of reaching out to remind them.
• The Treasurer’s report stands as read.

Announcements:
There is a “Moms for Kids” Craft Fair the first Saturday in November at the Siren School
Moms for Kids Crafts Show
Siren School
Saturday, November 3rd
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

There was also some discussion about a craft event in Grantsburg but no details

Committee Reports:

    Community Plantings:

•     Fairground Planting – no report
•     Flagpole Planting – Pam  - Still needs cleaning
•     Library Planting – Pam – Still needs cleaning – difficulty in getting library volunteers
•     Sign Planting – Kris – Kris & Pam cleaned out garden and replaced it with fall themed items.

    Grantoberfest – Pam – Successful! 2 new members, much interest thanks to Sandy & Pam

    Holiday in the Park – Sandy – May be set up weekend of Nov. 17, w/ Pam & Becky

     Plant Sale – Kris – Charlene has plants to be dug in spring,

    Tours – no report

Old Business:

• Sign-up sheets for 2019 continue to be passed around
• Wanda Biorn showed her hand-crafted Thanks You cards which she made for the club as a donation.
• Mary Griesbach spoke about the Sock Gnomes that will be the craft project in Nov. There was discussion of how it should be presented in the papers as well as the cost. A sign-up sheet was passed around and there will be a $5/kit activity fee. Each participant must RSVP.

New Business:

• The Christmas Party Venue for 2019 has been reserved for the Grantsburg Library, but can be cancelled if necessary. This was selected as it is central, large and accessible.
•  A thank you & donation of $50 from Cathy/Mike McCabe to use to beautify village

Brag Time:

• Wanda Biorn is going to Florida next month to a stamping convention.
•  Sandy Hinrichs and Janet Byers have delphiniums in bloom.

Next Meeting:

•  Thursday, November 8 at 6:30 PM at school. 
• “Making Sock Gnomes” – Mary Griesbach
•  Refreshments in November by: Alma and Cynthia

Adjournment Time: 7:10 PM    Motion by Wanda, Second by Janet

Tonight’s Presentation:     “Scandinavian Flowers and Travel” by Kris Henning

Refreshments by Charlene and Janet

Members Present: Janet, Rhonda, Kris, Wanda, Pam, Charlene, Mary G, Sandy, & Mary C

Respectfully submitted by Mary Charmoli

Serve our club and our community (it's not as hard as it looks)

We are currently in the planning process for 2019. That means our president has been circulating signup sheets for refreshments, committees, hosting and ideas for programs for the coming year. Many spots remain to be filled. This is our club, we all need to participate to make 2019 the best year yet!!

Please respond to burnettgardenclub@gmail.com to volunteer for any of the below.

Committees for 2019:

• Holiday in the Park/ Sandy Hinrichs and Pam
• Community Gardens/ Kris Henning

1.     Fairgrounds/ Ruth Anderson?
2.     Memory Lake Flagpole/ Pam Davies
3.     Library/ Pam Davies
4.     Hwy 70 Sign/ Kris Henning

• Grantoberfest:
• Plant Sale: Need Chair   helpers: Pam, Sandy, Rhonda
• PR/Hospitality: Need Chair
• Tours: Need Chair
• Program (put together and print booket): Need Chair

Refreshments for 2019:

• February: Rhonda & Janet
• March:  Pam & Georgianne
• April (at Wood River Garden Center): Wanda & Mary G
• July Garden Tour: Sandy 
• September:  Linnea & Janet
• October: 2 members needed
• November:  2 members needed

Hosting for 2019:

• Potting Party--May: at Kris Henning's will provide refreshments
• Spring Garden Party--June: Need host
• Summer BBQ--August: Need host
• Holiday Party--December: Need host

 Ideas for Progams 2019--We need ideas for 4 meetings and 1 workshop, they are:

• February:
• March:
• April: Wood River Garden Center preview
• September:
• October:
• November (Workshop):  

If you would like to do a presentation or workshop or know someone who would be good, please offer the idea.
New Ideas offered so far this year:

• Pumpkin, Squash and Gourds--ask the folks from Sunby (provides pumpkins for Grantoberfest) to talk about this. One young fellow was telling me all about this and he was very interesting.  
• How to test your own soil with a kit--Pam is offering to do this presentation 
• Need more ideas

Other Ideas from past years

• Fruit trees             
• maple syruping field trip in spring (Julie Chell might be someone to ask)
• composting            
• Fall garden cleanup            
• Essential Oils --Sarah Byers? (sugg. by Mary C.)               
• Butterflies, Bees, Bats            
• Bluebirds (bluebird house workshop?)               
• roses           
• Have Konnie Jerabek again to talk about invasives!            
• Butchart Gardens travelogue-Tim            

Election of Officers
We will be electing officers in November.

• President -- Uses the preset agenda sheet to plan the meeting (6 meetings). Makes sure the presenter will have what they need for the meeting. Makes any decisions for the club not needing a quorum vote of the membership. Presides at the meetings. Kris can not be president due to commitments to Day Lily Association
• Vice-president -- assists the president when needed and presides at the meeting in the absence of the president. Often the President and Vice-President share the responsibility of the president. Mary C can not be VP this year
• Secretary -- takes minute of the meeting using the agenda sheet provided by the president. Types up the minutes and emails them to the blog admin (Pam). Linnea? 
• Treasurer -- handles the bank account and check book and makes monthly reports on the clubs income and expenditures and the current balance and any issues that may arise. The treasurer has the thank-you notes and purchases the gas cards to give to presenter. Charlene?
• Blog Admin/notification (Pam) if anyone is interested in learning how to administrate the blog, Pam would be happy to teach you and work with you on the blog.

We need members to step up to take on these officer positions. You can ask for and will get a helping hand from other members and especially from past officers. To make this club work we need members to rotate into these positions.

Planning Committee for 2019
The new officers and the committee chairs (and any members who wish to participate) will make up the planning committee. The planning committee will meet in November to determine what presentations we will have based on the ideas offered by members. They will decide who to ask to be  presenters, and will make sure all the slots are filled for refreshments, committees, and hosting. Planning committee members will be assigned to do the follow up on these items.  

A big, big, big thank you to everyone who participated this year as officers, committee chairs and support; for providing refreshments, growing plants for the sale, offering their gardens and homes as host and for showing up at meetings!! We wouldn't be a club without you!!

Let's make year 31 the best ever!!

October meeting happenings

Eight members and one guest, founding member Bonnie Wicklund, gathered on Thursday evening to take care of club business and enjoy a travelogue presented by Kris on her travels with Bonnie, sister Donna and member Ruthie to Sweden.

Before the presentation, Wanda presented a set of thank-you cards she created especially for the club and Mary Griesbach showed us the holiday gnome we will be making in November.

Details of the gnome project can be found below. If you didn't sign up at the October meeting, RSVP if you want to participate in this project directly to Mary or with a reply to this blog post in your email, Mary needs to know how many to plan for.

Just a few of the custom cards Wanda created

 

Mary G will lead a workshop in November

Items from Sweden

Sock Gnomes project by Mary Griesbach

Each participant should bring 3+ cups of dry, uncooked rice or beans (rice will be cheaper, but beans work really good too), glue gun and glue sticks (if you have them), scissors, and any assorted ribbons, buttons and other embellishments they think they might like to use. I will provide everything else through my own personal stash and parts purchased. In order for someone to think about what they might like to bring themselves for their gnome, they can go to YouTube and view a couple videos about how to make Sock Gnomes. My method is a blend of what they are going to see in the videos.

Materials cost will be $5.00 for each kit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eotfT8e3Ngs

Meeting Minutes: September 2018

Burnett garden Club

September 2018

Call to order 6:37 PM by Kris H

• April minutes approval (no minutes were submitted from April at Wood River Garden Store Preview)
• Treasurer’s report: approved
• Upcoming event: Grantoberfest
• Committee reports: All plantings around the community were great!! 4-H watered at fairgrounds. Kudos to them!!!
• Sign Garden Clean-up: September 27, 5:50
• Holiday in Park: Ideas discussed. Linnea to ask Wayne Lake about a wagon. (She did, he isn’t sure) 
• No old business (correction/addition, Recap of 30th anniversary was discussed)
• New business:  Annual plant exchange. Thanks to all who brought plants!!
• Sign up for next year. Dues are due.
• Brag time:  Rhonda has a beautiful new garden shed.  Blue ribbons by members of club at fair.
• Suggestion to use library for the Christmas party. Easier access. 2019
• Kris recommended a book, “The well-tended Perennial Garden”
• Next meeting:  Oct 11. Kris and Ruth: Scandinavian gardens and travel presentation
• Adjourn 7:30ish
• Refreshments: Rhonda and Linnea

Members present:  Wanda, Rhonda, Pam, Charlene, Mary C. , Janet, Linnea, Kris, Sandy.
Minutes submitted by Linnea 

Meeting Reminder: Thursday, October 11, 6:30 GHS Room 115

It's already October! Our meeting will be Thursday, October 11, at the usual place (Grantsburg High School room 115) at 6:30.

We will be signing up for 2019 committees, refreshments, hosting, and will be brainstorming on what programs we want for 2019 so come with lots of ideas!! Dues will also be collected. We also have two new members to greet.

Our program for the evening will be "Scandinavian Flowers and Travel" by Kris and Ruthie

Refreshments will be provided by Janet and Charlene

Hope to see you all there!

Grantsburg Sign Garden Cleanup

Kris and Pam made quick work of the sign cleanup. Kris dug cannas while Pam yanked out petunias and marigolds. So sad to dump all those plants into the scrub but it had to get done. We will be grateful to have a clean palate to work with in the spring.

The sign is now adorned with corn stalks and "funcrows" donated by Grantoberfest. Here are a couple of snaps.

Another bumper crop of bulbs for the plant sale!

Kris and Pam just as dusk was approaching

Grantoberfest 2018--2 new members and lots of interest!!

Grantoberfest was a big success for our club. We came away with two new members, Chris and Rita, and four people who want to be on our email list who we hope will become members down the road. We also got some nice donations!

This year with a big pot of succulents provided by Linnea last year and some additional plants donated by Janet (thank you Linnea and Janet), we had a make-your-own mini, succulent pot which included little fairy garden type decorations. Who new the kids would go wild for this!! With a tub of soil, a trowel and a bunch of small pots of various sizes, the kids flocked in to create their own little garden to take home! A few older folks joined in the fun as well.

We also had a trivia game with questions pertaining to gardening or Grantsburg. Interestingly, most people chose gardening questions! Anyone having trouble answering got lots of clues--no one went away empty handed. We gave away over 50 prizes and made lots of friends for the club!

Thanks to Sandy we got a photo of our booth though just as we were almost done packing up. So busy was the day that getting photos totally slipped my mind. Well, that's a good thing because we had a great Grantoberfest!!
 

2018 Grantoberfest

A big thank you to Sandy for helping out at the booth including setup and cleanup!! I couldn't have done it without you!

Grantoberfest!! Saturday!! It's Free!! Don't miss it!!

We will be at Grantoberfest again this year (Sept 22) ! Since we are still celebrating our 30th Anniversary we will be celebrating at Grantoberfest with a lot of free stuff for anyone who comes up to talk to us! We will have fall themed decorations to give away as well as some plants and the opportunity for people to start their own succulent plants and little indoor fairy gardens.

If you have anything to donate, drop it off at Pam's at 216 N Pine Street (just north of the Gburg post office). Any small cute containers would be great. Any little fairy garden stuff, fairy garden sized plants, any pumpkins, gourds, any fun plants that people can take home to plant in their gardens yet this fall (even just in clumps not potted--this will be a hands on gardening experience for folks! I will need donations by Friday late afternoon or by 9:30 at the fairgrounds on Saturday.

Stop by the booth and if you have time, help out with greeting visitors and talking about the garden club.

Hope to see you there!

2013 Our first year at Grantoberfest

2015

2016

2017

 

September 27 Thursday, 6:00 Grantsburg Sign Garden Cleanup

Wow! the season is winding down! Fall is in the air.

We will be gathering at the sign garden on HWY 70 (west side of town) at 6:00 for our annual cleanup!!

• We will be pulling up plants and disposing of them in the scrub behind the garden
• We will be digging up canna bulbs to be stored for next year
• Bring gloves and cleanup tools like rakes, tarps, bushel baskets, whatever will hold debris. Don't forget bug spray.
• Some will do cleanup at the Fair Grounds and the Memory Lake flagpole garden
• We will also be decorating the sign for fall with stuff from Grantoberfest such as corn stalks, hay bales, funcrows (fun scarecrows), pumpkins or anything else we can come up with.
• Hope to see everyone there!! even if you have to be late. Many hands make light work!

Meeting Reminder: Thurday, September 13, 6:30 PM GHS room 115

Wow, the summer has flown by! We will be resuming our regular meetings with the September meeting on Thursday,  September 13 at 6:30 PM in room 115 at the Grantburg High School. We will try to make sure the front door of the school is not locked! 

At this meeting we will be brainstorming for 2019, so bring your ideas about what programs you would like to see the garden club provide. What workshops would interest you, what gardening challenges do you want to learn about, what garden related topics would you like to explore!

We will be discussing Putting the Garden to Bed with a forum. What are your best kept secrets for preparing your garden for winter and to help with a successful spring? What plants do you winter over indoors? What about bulbs? 

September is also our traditional seed and plant exchange. Bring divided plants and collected seeds to share. Let us know what conditions these plants need for success. This is a great time to get last minute plants and seeds to get into the ground for blooms next year!!

Refreshments will be provided by Linnea and Rhonda

Hope to see you all there!!

2017 Seed and Plant Exchange

Another Great Garden Club Showing at the Grantsburg Ag Fair!

Congratulations to all the garden club winners at the fair. Here are some pictures of the entries. Please forgive the out of focus snaps and any entries I missed. Let me know if I have labeled anything wrongly. There were lots of beautiful wheelbarrow entries but they were not labeled.

Please note, entries were brought in on Wednesday so some are a little past their prime, some day lilies no longer had blooms so are not shown. 

The fair ground planters also looked great. Thanks Ruthie for coordinating that effort. Pictures are included below.

Click the images for a larger view.

Rhonda

 Sandy

Becky

Linnea

Fairground planters