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Lawns and Lawn Alternatives
February 10 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 pm
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, First Church of Christ, Congregational, 25 The Great Rd. 9:30 am: Social period. 10 am: Meeting and guest speaker Gretel Anspach on Lawns and Lawn Alternatives.
Bakers: Heather Day, Shibani Dalal, Carol Amick
Centerpiece: Carol Amick
Lawns are imported garden fixtures from places with cool, wet summers. Here in New England, a “perfect” lawn is a major drain on water supplies, a source of pollution, and a lot of work!
Presenter Gretal Anspach, who was the featured speaker at the Club’s November 2025 program earlier in this program series, will describe options for tailoring your lawn and lawn care to fit your needs, potentially eliminating hundreds of hours of labor and expensive yearly treatments.
Her talk will include some discussion of alternatives to the traditional grass lawn.
Gretel is active in gardening activities in Massachusetts, both in leadership and volunteer capacities as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and a Lifetime Master Gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association (MMGA) – a distinction given only to a gardener who demonstrates extraordinary contributions to her community through volunteer service within the Master Gardener program.
She is a speaker for the MMGA’s Speakers Bureau. She recently retired from Raytheon where she worked as a systems engineer, and for 10 years oversaw Raytheon’s Food Pantry Garden.