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| Event Flyer |
Baton Rouge, La. – The Southern University Ag Center
invites the Baton Rouge community at large to its third annual Fall Gardening
Workshop on November 24, 2015. Registration for the event, which is free and
includes a healthy lunch, will begin at 8:30 a.m. and the program
will start at 9 a.m. inside A. O. Williams Hall - SU Ag Center.
Topics for this year’s workshop will include:
- · Seasonal planting
- · Pollinators and pests
- · Bee keeping
- · Maintaining and growing an Urban Ag Community
- · Non-traditional uses for traditional plants
- · Planting a smoothie/juice garden
- · Urban Agriculture Issues
There will even be an urban garden tour if the weather
permits.
Besides learning about planting and how to keep a
garden in an urban society, participants will also be able to taste-test
smoothies and juice made from the plants in the urban garden. This event will
link the participants to gain opportunities to grow or enhance an urban garden
successfully.
“This is going to be an action packed event,” said
Stephanie Elwood, Extension Associate of the Southern University Ag Center.
The workshop is co-hosted by the Southern University Ag
Center, its Wisteria Alliance Program and the Sustainable Agriculture Research
and Education (SARE) Program.
For more information about the workshop, contact Mila
Berhane, Stephanie Elwood, Dawn Mellion Patin or Zanetta Augustine at 225-771-2242.
(Article written by Felix Cunningham III, SU Ag Center
Intern.)
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