Chapter Events

Tour of member Bernie Francheschi's Urban Garden in Grand Rapids. For Members-only and their guests. Members will receive an email invitation with the address.

Bernie, is a Master Gardener with extensive gardening experience at his former home in Portland, OR. As part of his “extreme landscape makeover” he engaged the services of a landscape architect, Rebecca Marquardt, who championed the creation of beautiful landscapes containing mostly native plants. Bernie’s design sensibilities and amateur woodworking skills, especially in outdoor garden structure made a nice complement in working together. They found they shared many ecological, aesthetic, and urbanist values and have continued to work together ever since in creating beautiful and ecologically sustainable landscapes.

The progress of Bernie’s garden has been well documented with a photo album over the years, and he along with Rebecca Marquardt, will be on hand to answer questions.