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University of Saskatchewan

Sara Williams

Academic Qualifications

Retired Horticulturist, Author and Gardener

Biography

Sara Williams is undoubtedly one of the best-known and most highly respected horticulturalist on the Canadian prairies. For well over a decade she has been educating, entertaining and enlightening us with her newspaper columns, books and presentations. This year, Sara’s dedication to Prairie horticulture was recognized as she was awarded The Prairie Garden Award for Excellence.

Sara is a member of and has been an officer of a number of horticultural organizations. She is currently a Board member of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame. Sara is a volunteer with Saskatoon’s Forestry Farm Park and related organizations (Friends of the Forestry Farm House and the Zoo). As a volunteer she helped initiate two special gardens at the Forestry Farm: the Robin Smith Meditation Garden and the Heritage Rose Garden, and is still involved with both of these putting in hundreds of hours in work bees to maintain the gardens. She has written a history of the Forest Nursery Station. As a volunteer Sara developed and worked in a horticultural therapy program for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and with mental illnesses. Sara initiated Gardening at the Zoo (a horticultural education program), a partnership of the Saskatchewan Perennial Society and the City of Saskatoon. Sara’s awards include the Saskatchewan Centennial Leadership Award, 2005; several awards for program excellence from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education; two Saskatchewan Book Awards for Creating the Prairie Xeriscape; and the Distinguished Extension Award, Canadian Society of Extension.

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