Monday, October 1, 2018

Guest speaker is Freeman Patterson Gardener, Photographer, Author and Educator. Freeman is a Fundy Gardener member who lives at Shamper's Bluff on the Kingston Peninsula. A 250-acre property which he donated to Nature Conservancy of Canada which serves as a conservancy for an ecological reserve and an education area. Behind then the main house is surrounded by a unique collection of Rodendens, Azaleas, and natural ferns all set in a native woodland garden. On the front of the property are vast fields with wildflowers and mowed paths in which a gardener or photographer to meander.
Freeman co-founded the Namaqualand Photographic Workshops in 1984 and had been teaching each year as well as workshops in the United States, Israel, New Zealand and Australia mainly in the winter months and returns home each spring to work in the garden and continue local Photographic Workshops


Open to current members only.