Garden Fever Saturday, April 6, 2024

Chaska Event Center - 3210 Chaska Blvd, Chaska, MN 55318

Every spring, the Carver-Scott Master Gardeners kick off the gardening season with Garden Fever.  This year, we celebrate 25 years of this festive, inspiring, and educational event. Our primary goals are to inspire gardeners of all ages by offering top notch, research-based education not only during Garden Fever, but throughout the year. Let us help you bring your gardening ideas and goals to life. Join us for a very special celebration. 

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SCHEDULE
8:45 – 9:30 Registration, Vendor Fair Opens, Silent Auction Open for Bidding, morning refreshments
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome by Garden Fever Chair Patti Tibbs
9:45 – 10:30 Russ Henry, Healthy Soil
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:00 Michelle Bruhn, Companion Planting
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:45 Heidi Heiland, “Horticulture Therapy and the Healing Nature of Gardens”
1:45 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3:15 Cory Whitmer, “Native and Pollinator Gardening for Your Backyard”
3:15-3:30 Closing Remarks, Door Prize Drawing, and Silent Auction Basket Pickup

About Russ

As the president of Minnehaha Falls Landscape & Giving Tree Gardens, and the founder of Bee Safe Minneapolis, Russ Henry has been protecting and growing ecosystems across Minnesota for decades. Together his landscaping and garden companies install, manage, and restore hundreds of properties throughout the Twin Cities with native pollinator plants and without the use of pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. Russ has a soil-health based approach to all his work. As a certified Soil Life Consultant, he scientifically explores and supports soil health, the foundation for beauty and productivity in all landscapes. As an activist and educator, Russ advises individuals and organizations who want to grow healthy ecosystems. Recently, Russ served as the Chair of the Pesticide Advisory Committee for the Minneapolis Park Board. In this role and in a similar role at Minneapolis Public Schools Russ worked for public and environmental health through pesticide elimination and ecosystem regeneration. Enchanting landscape designs, clean water, compost, urban farming, healthy food access, pollinators, soil health, rain gardens, native plantings, are all part of Russ’ work both through his companies and through his ongoing advocacy. Learn more about Russ’ work at: https://www.minnehahafallslandscape.com/

About Heidi

Heidi Heiland is the Chief Experience Officer for her landscape gardening company, Heidi’s Lifestyle Gardens (HLG), whose seeds were planted in 1979. With support from her professional team she creates award winning ecoscapes and nourishing encounters with nature for her customers by bringing them holistic consultation, landscape design, installation plus garden design and maintenance. In 2016, they opened GrowHaus, a garden centre on a 5-acre footprint in Corcoran, which is a regenerative hub for growing, learning and thriving. After graduating from the Constance Spry Flower School in England, Heidi continued her education and became a Certified Professional through the Minnesota Nursery & Landscape Association (MNLA) and is one of only three female past Presidents in their 90+ year history. Beyond these credentials Heidi holds a certificate in Horticultural Therapy through Colorado State University, has her PDC for Permaculture Design, and is a Professional Master Gardener. She has 3 grandkids, a golden retriever dog named Dandelion and a rescued cat named Clover.

About Michelle

Michelle Bruhn relishes being a suburban homesteader born and raised in Minnesota. She’s a local food advocate, regenerative gardener, freelance writer, educator and farmers market manager. As the founder of Forks in the Dirt, an information hub for garden and farm-to-table living, she helps people grow their own, know their farmer and cook real food year-round. Her passion is helping folks Dig Their Food.

About Cory

I became interested in horticulture at the tender age of about 7. This is when I started working in the family garden, which was about a 1/4 acre. At the time, I had no idea this was foreshadowing of a lifelong passion. In fact, the first 3.5 years of college I was a psychology major with the dream of helping people. After taking Environmental biology 101 at Eastern Illinois University, I knew I wanted to help people in an environmental way. To everyone’s disbelief, I walked into my College advisors office and changed my major to Environmental Biology and Botany.

I started professionally in the green industry as an assistant grower in 1991.  I have held multiple positions in this industry like Head Grower, General Manager, Aquatic Manager, and of course Landscape Designer.  I am now the Design Manager for The Mustard Seed Landscaping & Garden Center.  I offer guidance to our design team and our clients and truly enjoy sharing my passion of plants with them.  I would call myself a plant geek, always looking for the perfect plant for the perfect place.

I am a Certified Professional though the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association (MNLA), I also have certification for Illuminology, which is an expert at night lighting.  I also have a pesticide applicators license, which I use when biological means won’t cut it.  I have been blessed to have received both national and local awards for doing the work I love.

My philosophy of life can be summed up best by a quote from one of the smartest businessmen ever; “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford