Master Gardener Gretel Anspach will present a “Lawns and Lawn Alternatives” session on Wednesday, Aug. 13 at 6 p.m. at the Adams Center, 33 Summer St..
Anspach will discuss different options to help tailor your needs, potentially eliminating hundreds of hours of labor and expensive treatments each year. Lawns are imported garden fixtures from places with cool, wet summers.
Our ideal of a “perfect” lawn can be a major drain on water supplies, a source of pollution, and hard work. Anspach’s talk will also include some discussion of alternatives to the traditional grass lawn.
Anspach is a Trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a Lifetime Master Gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, and a recently-retired systems engineer for Raytheon. She won the MMGA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.
Anspach established and presently maintains a 20,000 square foot food production garden that has provided fresh produce to the Marlboro and Maynard Food Pantries for the last 10 years. Her primary interest and focus is always the science behind horticulture.
She delivered an outstanding presentation this past spring at the Kingston Council on Aging titled, “Vegetable Gardening 101,” which was sponsored by the Kingston Agricultural Commission.
This program is part of the 2025 Adult Summer Reading Program, Level Up at Your Library. Attendees will be eligible for a raffle ticket for one of three prizes on display in the Circulation area. The Kingston Public Library has generously funded this program. To learn more about how the KPFL supports our library please visit kplf.org.
To register for this event, please visit – https://kingstonpubliclibrary.org. For more information, contact Steven Miller, Reference Librarian at (781) 585-0517 x6272 or at smiller@kingstonma.gov.