Heartland Tree Alliance is offering our Tree Keepers course this fall in Merriam, Kansas.  Tree Keepers is perfect for city employees, landscape providers, Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists, students, and retirees. All indoor sessions will be held at Merriam City Hall with a pruning and planting field day at a nearby park (all tools will be provided). Sessions will run Thursday evenings from 6-9PM, feel free to bring your dinner!  We have a great slate of industry professionals lined up to teach you the basics of tree care.

If you have questions, please call Joe Wheelock at 816-944-2548 or email joe.wheelock@bridgingthegap.org and he’ll be happy to help! If you cannot attend all the sessions, you can make them up at a later date (at no charge)!

TENTATIVE AGENDA:

Thursday, September 7th: 6:00-9:00PM

Urban Soils and Basic Tree Biology

Instructor: Lynn Loughry, Kansas State University Research & Extension

Introduction to Tree Benefits | Basic Tree ID

Instructor: Joe Wheelock, Program Manager Heartland Tree Alliance

Tree Planting and Tree Selection

Instructors: Robert Whitman, Vice President, Landscape Architect, Multistudio &Taylor Neff, Community Forester, Missouri Department of Conservation

Instructor: Jared Lind, Certified Arborist

Saturday, September 30th: 10:00 - Noon

Tree ID, Pruning, and Planting Field Day

Instructor: Dennis Patton, Kansas State University Research and Extension