{"id":1036,"date":"2025-09-19T12:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:45:16","slug":"next-meeting-october-15-2025-at-1-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/2025\/09\/19\/next-meeting-october-15-2025-at-1-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Next meeting-October 15, 2025 at 1 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/20221017-autumn-forest-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1038 size-medium img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/20221017-autumn-forest-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"autumn forest\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/20221017-autumn-forest-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/20221017-autumn-forest-823x1024.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/20221017-autumn-forest-768x956.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/20221017-autumn-forest-1234x1536.jpg 1234w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/20221017-autumn-forest-1645x2048.jpg 1645w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/20221017-autumn-forest-300x373.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a>Ruth Vriend, Howard County Master Gardener, will present \u201c<em><strong>Leave the Leaves<\/strong><\/em>\u201d with tips to save gardeners time and money. Many homeowners rake up and dispose of leaves every fall. But leaving the leaves can have significant benefits for enriching the soil, mulching around plants, and supporting pollinators and other wildlife. You\u2019ll learn why and how to enrich your garden and save time and money by strategic use of autumn leaves. We will have a short business meeting after the presentation at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howardcountymd.gov\/aging-independence\/east-columbia-50-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>East Columbia 50+ Center<\/strong><\/a>, located at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/AYBLzBGLAHHKvHCu5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>6610 Cradlerock Way in Columbia, MD<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard County Master Gardener Ruth Vriend will offer tips on how leaving the leaves can enrich the soil and support pollinators and other wildlife and save gardeners time and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/20221017-autumn-forest-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}