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Send your Calendar or event notifications to Dave Banks for inclusion on this page.  We only advertise for events of interest to Gardeners and Master Gardeners.  We can't help you with registration, or answer questions so please be sure to include complete information including the name, date, and location of the event, a brief description, and anything you would like us to include by link.  Submissions must include contact information to be considered for inclusion, because when it isn't there they ask me!


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Virginia Biological Farming Conference

 Feb. 10-11, 2012.

For More information contact

Andy Hankins

Education Support Specialist

Virginia Cooperative Extension

Box 9081

Virginia State University

Petersburg, VA 23806

804-524-5962

ahankins@vsu.edu

 


 

 

SAVE THIS DATE !

The 3rd Annual Master Gardener Day At VSU

Saturday, February 25, 2012 Virginia State University, Ettrick, VA

Focus on Food--from Field to Table

General sessions:

Alternative Pollinators Dr. Nancy Adamson, USDA-NRCS

Production of Super Food Crops in VA Dr. Reza Rafie, VCE

Break-out sessions:

School Gardening Program in a City/Intercity Setting Mark and Mary Welch, MGs

Social Media 101 for MGs Mark Klingman, VCE

What makes it a "Super Food"? Mary-Jo Sawyer, RD

Gardening for Pollinators Dr. Nancy Adamson, USDA-NRCS

School Gardening Program in a Rural Setting Barbara Thomas, MG

Chef's Hints using Super Foods, Wanda Johnson, VCE

Understanding Nutrition and USDA's "Healthy Plate" Dr. Paula Inserra, VCE

Progress Report: Building Southside Botanic Gardens Charles Stallard, MG; Bill McCaleb, VCE

Wise Water Use: Rain barrels, Trickle irrigation, etc. Jack Wimer, MG, A.Hankins/C Mullins, VCE

Don't Kill that Orchid! Art Chadwick, Chadwick & Sons Orchids

Interpreting a Historic Garden TBA & Native Plants that Attract Alternative Pollinators TBA

Registration opens Jan. 2, 2012        Limited to 200         

Forms available

Registration is Open !


Central Virginia Gardening Conference

February 25, 2012

8:30 am – 3:00 pm

Merritt Hall
Central Virginia
Community College
Lynchburg, VA
3506 Wards Road Lynchburg, VA 24502-2498

Registration is Open !

Registration deadline is February 17th

 



The Nature of Trees           

and other Related Thoughts

                                                        12th Annual Roanoke Workshop

 

March 9, 2012

Virginia Western Community College

3094 Colonial Ave. Southwest

Roanoke, VA 24015

FYI. If you have questions, please contact Barbara White (Barbara.White@dof.virginia.gov) with the Virginia Department of Forestry.

 

Join us for the 12th annual Roanoke Tree care Workshop and enjoy presentations from nationally know speakers on a variety of thought provoking and timely topics

Click here for more information

 


 

Piedmont Master Gardeners' Spring Garden Lecture Series
MARCH 2012

MARCH 8
Joel Salatin
The Sheer Ecstasy
of Being a Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 15
Barbara Pleasant
Getting Started
in Organic Food Gardening

MARCH 22
Catrionia Tudor Erler
Thinking Outside the Boxwood

MARCH 29
Vincent Simeone
Creating a Sustainable Landscape

PMG 2012 Lecture Series Flyer and registration form
pre-registration is strongly advised.


 Shenandoah Valley Plant Symposium 2012

March 28

8:00 am-4:00 pm

Best Western Inn and Conference Center
109 Apple Tree Lane.
Waynesboro, VA 22980

A Gardener's Palette

Nationally renowned speakers: Tony Avent, Steve Aitken, Brent Heath, Richard Bir, Clara Curtis

Flyer and registration

 


 

 


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