Spade & Trowel Garden Club offers talk on GMO's

The Spade & Trowel Garden Club of Andover, at its next meeting on Tuesday, February 2 at 7:00 p.m. at West Parish Church Hall, will be presenting speaker Gretel Anspach to discuss the implications of GMO’s (Genetically Modified Organisms) in our food. This is a topic that should be of great interest to everyone as more and more food on our supermarket shelves contains GMO’s. What are the implications for our health, the environment, the future? Gretel Anspach is a prominent speaker, a Trustee of Mass Hort, a Lifetime Master Gardener, Education Coordinator and past president of the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association. She is also a member of the Garden to Table committee at Mass Hort and helped to establish and maintain a food production garden at Raytheon that has provided fresh produce to the Marlboro Food Pantry for five years.

The public is cordially invited to attend this meeting, free of charge. For further information, please call 978-681-1890.

Spade & Trowel is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing encouragement and education for members and the community in horticulture, landscape design, civic beautification, environmental protection and the art of floral design. Members oversee and maintain several traffic islands and other gardens in Andover and the club offers an annual $ 500 college scholarship. New members are welcome to our small, friendly club.