Pre-Conference Full-Day Workshops--Tuesday, June 23
Garden GIS Essentials: Everything You Need to Know to Create a GIS
Presenters: Rebecca Sucher, Missouri Botanical Garden,
Katie Harris, ESRI
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Commerce Bank Education Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden
Fee: $25, includes lunch and refreshments
Enroll in this workshop and you will learn everything you need to know to create a GIS for your institution using ESRI's ArcGIS desktop software. The ArcGIS Botanical Garden and Zoological Park Data Model will be demonstrated as a template for storing and working with data. Participants will learn the essentials of developing a GIS, including how to acquire, create, edit, and symbolize data, how to use the ArcGIS Botanical Garden and Zoological Park Data Model, how to connect plant records data to the GIS, and how to create labels and map layouts.
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Doing More with Less: Special Workshop for Small
and Medium Public Gardens
Moderator: Dan Stark, APGA
Presenters: Shane Smith, Cheyenne Botanical Garden and Mary Olien, Green Spring Gardens
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency
Fee: $80, includes lunch and refreshments
Small and medium public gardens have limited resources and often must do more with less. This workshop will focus on creative ways gardens can fulfill their mission. Because this conference is in St. Louis, the workshop will be even more accessible to representatives from small and medium gardens, many of whom do not frequently get to interact. The session will focus on emerging trends, as well as innovative ways small and medium gardens have approached problems larger gardens easily deal with. There will be an opportunity to discuss issues facing administrators and staff. The presenters are directors who will share their experiences in dealing with the unique challenges that small and medium public gardens face.
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Cultivating Plants Under Glass: A Behind the Scenes Study Day at Missouri Botanical Garden
Presenters: Garry Clarke, Franklin Park Conservatory,
Steve Wolff, Babs Wagner, and Deborah
Lalumondier, Missouri Botanical Garden
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Missouri Botanical Garden
Fee: $90, includes lunch, refreshments, and handouts
Do you have maintenance, cultural and pest control challenges unique to growing under glass? Wish you could interact and learn from your peers? Join this interactive, behind-the-scenes workshop that utilizes the Missouri Botanical Garden's four glasshouse facilities, with over 170 years of combined growing history, along with their expert staff to learn all about successfully growing under glass. This workshop is for conservatory managers, curators, horticulturists, and researchers, along with production greenhouse managers, growers, and directors who are looking to improve or add glasshouse facilities. Conservatories continue to play a very significant role at public gardens for collections development, seasonal show display and research. Learn how to successfully manage diverse greenhouse plant collections and facilities to support a gardens operations and mission. How to meet collections, seasonal show and research needs. Expert tips on propagation, climate control systems, IPM and more. There will be time for networking and the ability to ask specific questions and to problem solve.
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Membership: Your Garden's Best Friend
Presenters: Fontaine M.Huey, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Dana Hines, Membership Consultants, and Sharon Mertzlufft, Missouri Botanical Garden
Time: 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency
Fee: $85, includes lunch, refreshments, and handouts
Gardens of all sizes will find relevance at this workshop, which will explore the principles and best practices of a high-functioning, revenue-producing membership program. Participants will also gain an understanding of what motivates members to join, renew, and upgrade. You will learn what constitutes success in Public Garden membership programs from seasoned professionals in the field. Topics will include membership acquisition techniques, including direct mail and on-site sales, as well as upgrade and renewal strategies. Proven measurements of success will be presented and discussed. Learn how to grow your garden's membership program and how to keep members returning year after year. Explore membership management techniques and learn how to measure membership success at your garden.
Pre-Conference Half-Day Workshops--Wednesday, June 24
Activating People-Plant Energy for All Garden Audiences
Presenters: Patsy Benveniste, Gene Rothert, and Kelly Nelson from Chicago Botanic Garden
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency
Fee: $50, includes refreshments, materials and handouts
A broad public understanding of the "people-plant" connection is encouraging health and human service agencies to connect their patients, clients and students with the healing resources of botanic gardens. The ability to serve people with age related, developmental or other sensory or motor disabilities is not limited to large institutions like the Chicago Botanic Garden. Facilitated programming is within the capacity of almost all botanic gardens. In this half-day workshop, professionals from the Chicago Botanic Garden's Horticultural Therapy Services Department will present hands-on demonstrations and information on how to support people-plant interactions for individuals and groups of any ability, both in the botanic garden and in offsite settings.
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Mobile GIS: Using GPS for GIS Data Collection and Maintenance
Moderator: Rebecca Sucher, Missouri Botanical Garden
Presenter: Jay Riester, Seiler Instrument
Location: Commerce Bank Education Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Fee: $25, includes refreshments
This half-day workshop will cover the essentials of Mobile GIS, the process of moving GIS data into the field for data capture and update. A variety of hardware and software solutions are available for Mobile GIS.This presentation will highlight these solutions and associated applications, with a focus on ESRI's ArcPad software. Topics will include: understanding the Global Positioning System, applications for Mobile GIS, current hardware solutions, customizing data collection, updating GIS data in the field, and seamless data flow between GPS and GIS. This workshop will include a complete field-to-GIS data collection project. Trimble GPS equipment will be provided. A field project will be completed specific to a Botanical Garden. This workshop is designed for those who have a GIS or are planning to develop a GIS at their institution, and wish to use GPS to collect data on features in their garden or arboretum and move that data into a GIS.
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Real Plants, Real Tools, Real Science: Methods for Inviting Visitors to Develop their own Scientific Skills
Presenters: Kitty Connolly and Rachel Vourlas, Huntington Botanical Gardens
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency
Fee: $100 per person, includes refreshments and materials
Using methods and designs from the Huntington's award-winning "Plants are up to something" exhibition, participants will learn how to successfully integrate real scientific tools and technology (both high and low) into dynamic, impactful programming. We will explore tools and instruments that have demonstrated their worth in a wide variety of educational and interpretive applications, from exhibits to discovery carts to school programs. Participants will develop approaches for selecting and adapting tools for their own specific applications in a lively and collaborative workshop. Punch up your interpretation with science and technology. What's a truncheon's function? To measure nutrients, of course. How sweet is it? Grab a refractometer. Are those stomata? A videoscope can help. Join this lively, collaborative workshop on the power of scientific tools to arouse people's curiosity and deepen their understanding of plants.
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Keys to a Successful Garden Store
Presenter: Andrew Andoniadis, Andoniadis Retail Services
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency
Fee: $55, includes refreshments and handouts
Learn specific, proven techniques for the organization and operation of the most important aspects of a retail presence. A well-run retail presence can affect how much a visitor spends in the store.Mission-related product selection, customer service, merchandising, displays, selling skills, layout and design, foot-traffic patterns, and other related factors that reach the highest level of effectiveness will directly translate into more revenue and greater visitor satisfaction.
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Special Forums
NAPCC Members Forum
Moderator: Pam Allenstein, NAPCC ManagerTime: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency
All NAPCC collections holders, recruiter/mentors, and reviewers are invited to attend in this expanded annual meeting. Join the open forum discussion to share the latest about your NAPCC collections and hear updates on all the exciting activities underway. Breakout meetings for the Quercus and Acer curatorial groups and ad hoc groups with complementary holdings will follow. Please register for the Forum included under the pre-conference workshop listings. Questions? Contact NAPCC Manager Pam Allenstein: pallenstein@publicgardens.org or (302) 655.7100 ext. 15.
Leadership Forum
Moderator: Bill Thomas, Chanticleer Foundation
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency
Fee: $10, includes refreshments
Join today's garden leaders in a roundtable interactive gathering about leadership. Several topics will be discussed including management, government, and planning. This special forum is open to everyone to allow leaders at all levels the opportunity to connect and share issues.
Sponsored by Chanticleer Foundation
