FROM THE BOARD: Please Welcome Our Two Newest Board Members – John Clements And Susi Torre-Bueno

Please Welcome Our Two Newest Board Members – John Clements and Susi Torre-Bueno

Great News! At the most recent board meeting on May 19, 2025, John Clements and Susi Torre-Bueno were voted on to the board. John is taking over the organizing of the Sharing Gardens position (formerly called Coffee in the Garden or Open Gardens) and Susi, a former SD Hort Society president and newsletter editor, has rejoined the board, this time as a member-at-large where she is focusing her volunteer efforts on restoring and running the Plant Forum at the meetings. (See the Plant Forum article in this newsletter for more information.)  

Please help them both with their efforts!

Contact John at SharingGardens@sdhort.org if you have a garden or know someone with a garden that would be willing to share their garden with our members.  

Contact Susi at Susi@sdhort.org to assist her with the Plant Forum at the meetings.

These two wonderful additions to the board are great but did you know that you can join them because there are still open positions on the board? Positions that you can help the society with are membership, scholarships, school garden grants, garden tour, vice-president and there is another member-at-large position available.

The San Diego Horticultural Society Board:

President and newsletter editor, Karen England

Treasurer, Scott Borden

Secretary, Ken Kubarych

Past president emeritus, Jim Bishop

Programs, Donna Mallen

Promotions, Rachel Cobb

Volunteers, Karon DeLeon

Member-at-large, Jason Chen

Member-at-large, Susi Torre-Bueno

Sharing Gardens, John Clements

The open board positions needed are scholarships, school garden grants, membership, vice-president, garden tour, and another member-at-large. Here is the online Board Application link – feel free to fill it out to start the process of joining the board https://www.sdhort.org/event-2226718 or send Karen an email at info@sdhort.org to learn more first, and she will happily answer your questions.

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