Our first meeting of the 2021-2022 session was held on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, at the home of Bill and Jennifer Pospichal’s. I don’t think we all knew what a special treat was in store for us! Our meeting began with a tour of their amazing gardens and incredible grounds, along with Bill, Jennifer’s husband and a master gardener, giving us a program on raised bed vegetable gardening.

Bill is a civil engineer by degree and purchased 40+ acres back in the early 1990’s. This land used to be an old mink farm, yes, that is correct mink, as in fur. Bill and Jennifer have created a beautiful oasis lush with gardens galore from native plants, pollinators, quiet streams and loads of amazing vegetable beds. Over 2,000 shrubs and trees are planted on their property. Raised vegetable beds include cauliflower, broccoli, chick peas, strawberries just to name a few. Thank you to Jennifer and Bill for sharing your paradise with us!

“Every empty bottle is filled with a great story”

In 2020, the Horticulture Committee challenged the club to save our wine corks. With the pandemic, this challenged continued on till May of 2021, when we were finally able to gather for our Annual Meeting. Our club was busy over Covid, we collected over 8 pounds of wine corks! Anne Hall, Horticulture Chair, delivered the wine corks to WineStyles, at 10076 South 74th Plaza, who recycles them. Thank you to WineStyles for recycling and being good to Mother Earth! Another tidbit of information is that they also recycle wine bottles by giving them to the Smash Room. Evidently, people will pay to smash bottle and the broken glass is given to Metropolitan Community College Arts for projects. So if you are looking for a place to take your wine bottles or corks, along with purchasing wine, please keep WineStyles in mind. Thank you Anne for collecting the corks, finding a place that recycles them and delivering them for our group!