This meeting we are excited to host speaker, Keith Berven who will be discussing “Developing the best soil for growing dahlias". Please read more below about our speaker

Please note this meeting is at our usual place at the library. The virtual presentation begins promptly at 10 a.m. You must be in person to attend.

Keith Berven is a recently retired professor in the biology department at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. His research area is ecology and population biology. He is an avid gardener, and loves growing not only dahlias, but flowers of all kinds. While growing up in the Pacific Northwest, his father always had dahlias in their yard, and although Keith has always grown dahlias in his own garden, he did not start showing dahlias competitively until 1999 after attending a local dahlia show in Rochester Hills, MI. He enjoys competing, and has won multiple awards at local, regional and national dahlia shows. He is a member of the American Dahlia Society (ADS) and the Southeastern Michigan Dahlia Society. Keith has served as President of the SEMDS, is on the Board of Directors of the Midwest Dahlia Conference and a member of the ADS Classification Committee. He and his wife, Dikka, live in Lake Orion, MI.