Annual Meeting 2007

The annual general meeting of the Friends of the Farm (PEI) will be held on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. at the Carriage House, Beaconsfield Historic House, West Street, Charlottetown.

Members and non – members are invited to attend the brief business meeting which will be followed a lecture by Diana Beresford – Kroeger entitled “Island Trees, Island Treasures”. Beresford – Kroeger says: "PEI has the climate, the soils, and the inclination to grow a treasury of trees: the kinds of trees that beat the stock market and keep the Island solvent in a most interesting way ...." The lecture is being co-sponsored by the City of Charlottetown and the friends.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a scientist and author specializing in classical botany and medical biochemistry. She is known for her captivating and well informed lectures and is the author of Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest and A Garden for Life, about growing gardens for pleasure which are also eco-friendly. Her book, “Arboretum America”, won the American National Arbor Day Foundation Media Award in 2005, for an exemplary educational work on trees and forests. She is currently working on “Arboretum Borealis”, a sister book to “Arboretum America” about the great northern forests and the importance in the global eco system.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, medical and agricultural researcher, lecturer, and self-defined “renegade scientist” in the fields of classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry and nuclear chemistry. In

the area of popular media, she has regularly contributed to, written for, or hosted programs on CBC radio, National Public Radio (USA) and CTV. She is a regular columnist for the Canadian magazines, Nature Canada, and Eco/Farm and Gardens, and the community newspaper, the Merrickville Phoenix. Her articles also appear in Europe in journals such as those of Irish Garden Plant society, the Wiltshire Gardens Trust and others.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger was raised in Ireland and now lives outside of Ottawa. She has studied classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic and radio nuclear chemistry, and experimental surgery in Ireland, the USA and Canada. Her scientific publications appear in journals such as, The American Heart Journal, The Canadian Heart Journal, and The Journal of Microscopy. She has lectured at the University College Cork (Ireland) and at Carleton University (Canada) and received a fellowship at the University of Connecticut. She has worked as a research scientist at the Canada Department of Agriculture and the University Of Ottawa School Of Medicine, as well as the aforementioned institutions.

Her charitable work includes raising considerable funds for the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize winning group Medecins san Frontiers, the Shepherds of Good Hope Shelter, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, many

horticultural societies, arboreta and libraries. She is also an active scientific and educational resource for eastern Ontario schools. She continues to write and conduct research in her extensive private gardens at Merrickville, Ontario.

A documentary film completed in 2007, about her life and her garden, will be broadcast in March 2008 in North America and Europe.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger contact information. 613 269 4453

P.O. Box 253

Merrickville,

Ontario, K1G 1N0