The East Bay Chapter horticulture program is at a crossroads, and we would like your input on its future direction. Our chapter has a successful, growing Native Here Nursery that propagates and sells plants native to the East Bay, mostly from wild seed. Also, for most of our chapter’s existence, we have had an “All-California” plant sale (plants from all over the state), an important outreach and fundraising event. We recently had to give up our “All-California growing grounds at Merritt College and are searching for another site. Finding a new location has been more challenging that anticipated, and developing a new nursery facility will require considerable time and resources.
Before we proceed further, we want to know what our membership thinks: How can the horticulture program be most effective in achieving CNPS’ mission to increase understanding and appreciation of California’s native plants?
We invite you to participate in developing a consensus on the future of the horticulture program. You can help us most at this time by answering a set of questions designed to elicit your ideas about the horticulture program’s role and its future directions. To take the survey, go the Survey Questions page and copy and paste the questions there into a Word document. Save the document and attach it to an email message to Barbara Leitner at bleitner@pacbell.net. We will be accepting survey responses until April 7.
If you would prefer to answer these questions by phone, we would be happy to call you. Please contact Barbara Leitner at bleitner@pacbell.net or Sue Rosenthal at rosacalifornica@earthlink.net or 510-496-6016 if you would like to complete the survey by phone.
We will compile the results, and then will schedule a workshop to develop a plan for the horticulture program. Watch the Bay Leaf for updates.
Your responses to these questions are confidential. We will not attach any personally identifying information to your survey.
Barbara Leitner