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| Milagro Berhane, Senior Research Associate at the SU Ag Center, provides participants with instructions on how to plant tomato and watermelon seedlings during the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Institute's Spring Garden Workshop. |
Baton Rouge, La. – Sixty small
farmers, backyard gardeners and high school agricultural classes participated
in the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Institute’s (SARDI) Community
Spring Garden Workshop on February 15.
The event was held at 9 a.m. at
SARDI’s Diesi Street location in Opelousas, La.
Antonio Harris, SARDI’s Director, greeted
the participants and introduced the workshop’s presenters Milagro Berhane,
Senior Research Associate, and Stephanie Elwood, Extension Associate for
Community and School Gardens, both with the Southern University Ag Center.
Elwood provided participants with
information on the importance of school and community gardens as well as
information on nontraditional crops that can be planted in the Spring. Berhane
instructed the participants in hands-on demonstrations on seedling preparation,
transplanting seedlings, and hoop house and greenhouse maintenance.
During the demonstrations, each
participant was able to plant their own tomato and watermelon seed that
they were able to take home.
SARDI is a satellite campus of the
Southern University Ag Center housed in Opelousas, La. The Institute focuses on
improving the socioeconomic well-being of citizens in rural communities within
a ten-parish region of St. Landry, Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard,
Evangeline, Lafayette, Pointe Coupee, St. Martin and Vermillion Parish.
Click here to view photos from
the event.
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