Gardening season's here! Learn about making and maintaining gardens and lawns without synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers for the safety and health of both you and our ecosystem at our April 9 Friends Meeting. Our guest speaker, Henrietta Light of the Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety (WCES) will be bringing and educational display and a variety of informative brochures and handouts.

Ms. Light has been involved with gardens and land care all her life. Before environmentalism and ecology were in our daily vocabularies, she learned about the stewardship of the land from her mother and father, who was a latter-day Thoreau. As horticulturist at the Lyman Estate in Waltham, she managed greenhouses and gardens without pesticides. In her garden design and consultation business and in her demonstration garden in Watertown, she puts into practice her strong concern about the health and environmental risks of many pesticides.

Ms. Light is active in the Pesticide Use Reduction and Education Campaign of the WCES, which is affiliated with the Wellesley-based Massachusetts Pesticide Awareness Collaborative.

Ms. Light is active in the Pesticide Use Reduction and Education Campaign of the WCES, which is affiliated with the Wellesley-based Massachusetts Pesticide Awareness Collaborative.

Wednesday, April 9 at 7:30 pm

Bramhall Room, All Saints Episcopal Church Corner of Clark & Common Streets