Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 • Time: 6:30pm
Place:  Wailuku Community Center 395 Waena St. • Speaker:Nina Rach (see below)

Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 • Time: 6:30pm
Place:  Wailuku Community Center 395 Waena St. • Speaker: Fred Rindisbacher - Vandas

Guest Speaker : Nina Rach

Nina has been growing orchids for nearly 40 years, starting in NJ near the greenhouses of America's oldest firm, Lager & Hurrell. She grows a wide variety of species (and even some hybrids) in two greenhouses and outdoors, with a particular fondness for stanhopeas, sobralias, and terrestrials. She's an Accredited AOS judge and has been a member of the Houston Orchid Society for 20 years, served as president, and designed and maintained the society’s first website for 12 years. She's also a member of the Pleurothallid Alliance, SWROGA, and the Orchid Digest Corp.
Nina earned a BS from Cornell University (home of the Knudson formula!), an MS from Duke University, and a JD from the University of Houston Law Center. She wrote a lengthy research paper on plant patents and is a member of the Texas Bar. She's spent nearly her entire career in the energy industry as an engineer, geophysicist, writer, and editor. She's married, with two children.

She recently curated an exhibit at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, on orchid history and orchid stamps. It occupies the East Gallery on the Mall, and is scheduled to be open February 6-April 11. www.usbg.gov     
"I'm a strong believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more of it I have." ~Thomas Jefferson

Photo by Nina

Orchid Tour 2009 photos

Photos BY JARRET