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NEWS:
Save the Date:
2010
Everything Garden Expo
March 6-7, 2010
Thanks to all the participants and sponsors for making the 1st Annual Everything Garden Expo a success! |
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CONTACT INFO:
Please call the SAAC Office at 662-324-3080 or email us at
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Everything Garden Expo
set
for March 6-7 2010 in Starkville
Gardeners, take heart. Winter may be bearing down, but spring will be ushered in early this year at Mississippi State University .
The Starkville Area Arts Council will again team up with Mississippi State University to present the 2nd annual “Everything Garden Expo.” It is set for March 6-7, 2010, at the Mississippi Horse Park on the MSU campus. Show hours are 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 6; and 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 7. Admission is $5 per person, and children six and under will be admitted free.
Organizers are planning an event to offer both hobby and professional gardeners the latest in products and growing techniques. There will be seminars led by the region’s leading garden authorities, including “Garden Mama” Nellie Neal, who will discuss “Food from your Backyard”; and the irrepressible Felder Rushing whose topic is “Getting REAL in the Yard and Garden.”
Other “hot” topics will include “Invasive Weeks: A Cancer in the Landscape”; Gardening Twelve Months out of the Year (with an emphasis on winter gardens); “All about Tomatoes,” and “Plants from Grandmama’s Garden.” Horticultural authorities will also discuss garden design, growing Echinacea (coneflowers) and “Urban Forestry. Be watching for a complete schedule of events and educational seminars.
Special programs designed for children will include a special exhibit by the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Magician Matthew Douglas and Nelle Elam will return for hands-on demonstration of elements of design with budding young gardeners in mind. “This is Northeast Mississippi ’s premier garden show featuring a broad array of vendors, showing and selling their new garden wares,” said Jane Loveless, co-chair for the event. “Mississippi State University is widely known for its horticulture and landscape architecture programs,” said Loveless. “This is the perfect place to conduct a regional garden Expo which will appeal to gardeners from throughout the Mid-south.”
Other contributing sponsors include the Mississippi State University Extension Service, The Mississippi Horse Park, Starkville School District Family Centered Program, The Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the Greater Starkville Development Partnership.
For more information contact Jane Loveless at 320-9574.
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