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| Zanetta Augustine, Extension Associate at the SU Ag Center standing on far right in purple, leads Fall Gardening Workshop attendees on a tour of the Center's greenhouse. |
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| Fall Gardening Workshop attendees. |
Baton Rouge, La. – The near freezing morning
temperature didn’t stop almost 100 attendees from showing up for the Southern
University Ag Center’s Fall Gardening Workshop, held on November 24 in A.O.
Williams Hall – SU Ag Center.
Prior to the start of the program, attendees were
treated to smoothies and a juice breakfast bar made from vegetables grown in
the Center’s Urban Demonstration Farm. Stephanie Elwood, Extension Associate at
the SU Ag Center, provided the attendees with recipes to make the smoothies and
juices at their homes during her presentation on Fall Season Planting and Smoothie
and Juice Gardens.
SU Ag Center Vice Chancellor for Extension Dr. Gina E.
Eubanks welcomed the packed crowd to the workshop and to the Southern University
Ag Center.
Other presentations included Pollinators and Pests:
Encouraging Healthy Ecosystems, which explained how some insects assist in the
pollination of plants; Bee Keeping: Raising Queen Bees in the City, which discussed
how to transplant a queen into a bee colony and maintain a bee colony in an
urban environment; The Human Element: Maintaining and Growing an Urban
Agriculture Community, which focused on community gardening and Non-traditional
Uses for Traditional Crops, such as harvesting and selling banana leaves and making
jelly from corn cobs.
Attendees were also given the opportunity to share topics
that they would like to learn more about during the next workshop with the Ag
Center’s staff.
The workshop ended with a tour of the Southern
University Ag Center’s greenhouses and its Urban Demonstration Farm.
The Fall Gardening Workshop was co-sponsored by the
Southern University Ag Center, its Wisteria Alliance Program and the
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program.
For additional information about gardening, the SU Ag
Center’s Urban Demonstration Farm or to schedule a tour of the Farm, contact Mila
Berhane, Stephanie Elwood, Dawn Mellion-Patin or Zanetta Augustine at
225-771-2242.
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