Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:29:50 -0400
From: Heather Gallagher
Subject: Woods Charter Founder Series Event
*Planting for Posterity: **Forty Years of Gardening in the Carolina Piedmont*
Founder’s Series Talk by Tom Krenitsky, sponsored by the Woods Charter School Foundation
Date: Tuesday November 13, 2012
Location: Woods Charter School, 160 Woodland Grove Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Tom Krenitsky is a biochemist (Ph.D. Cornell University, 1963) and has spent the bulk of his professional career in pharmaceutical research. When he moved to North Carolina in 1970 he became interested in the great variety of plants that could be grown in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.
Mr. Krenitsky describes his experiences gardening in red clay at the same location in the Piedmont region of North Carolina over the past forty years. The book emphasizes his successes and failures with shrubs, trees and perennials. Details are included about which plants are deer and drought resistant.
*6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Refreshments*
*7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Presentation*
*8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Q&A and book signing*
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*Woods Charter School is located on Woodland Grove Lane just off Andrews Store Road off of U.S. 15-501, about eight miles south of Chapel Hill. *
*The Woods Charter School Foundation focuses on fund raising to bridge the gap between state and federal funding and securing the long-term financial stability of Woods Charter School. *
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*For more information contact Heather Gallagher at 919-960-8353 Ext. 405 or