28 March 2012 - Sarah Bailey –
Conserving Sid Waxman’s Heritage
In addition to being one of the nicest, most knowledgeable
and hardest-working people I have the pleasure to know,
Sarah Bailey is a Certified Advanced Master Gardener and a
Connecticut Accredited Nursery Professional. She has
watered, weeded, fertilized and provided horticultural and
design advice in the Farmington Valley area for the last
fifteen years. Along with being the Hartford County
Coordinator for the UConn Cooperative Extension Master
Gardener Program and a pesticide safety educator, Sarah
also attends to private garden clients. Additionally, she is on
the boards of directors for the Connecticut Horticultural
Society and the Connecticut Community Gardening
Association.
We probably have heard about the great work that Sid
Waxman did at UConn and the many plants that he
introduced. You might have not been aware that much of
what he did was disappearing from UConn. She will be
speaking about the important work of the conservation effort
at UConn concerning Sid Waxman’s plants. Sarah will tell us
the plans and the progress on the work of preserving his
heritage.