Horticulture Brown Bag Lecture Series Planned
- When: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 12:05 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
- Where: ASU-Beebe Farm classroom, Beebe. AR
- Cost: Not available
- Age limit: Not available
- Categories: Classes, Community, Lectures
Horticulture Brown Bag Lecture Series Planned
Looking for something fun to do during your lunch hour? How about spending your lunch hour with us and learn about gardening and horticulture? A Brown Bag Lecture Series consisting of four educational sessions on horticulture will be conducted this summer. So grab your lunch and a friend and come in out of the heat. You will enjoy learning about horticulture and meeting new friends.
The Brown Bag Lecture Series will be held on four consecutive Wednesdays - July 28, and August 4, 11, and 18 in Beebe at the ASU-Beebe Farm classroom. Each day the program will begin at 12:05 p.m. and will adjourn by 12:50 p.m. to insure everyone gets back to work by 1:00 p.m. Please feel free to come and go as your schedule allows.
July 28 – Jerry Sites, ASU – Beebe Agriculture Professor, will be the featured speaker on the first day of the event. He will be conducting a hands-on program titled “Constructing a Terrarium”.
August 4 – Kaye Winningham, White County Master Gardener, will be conducting a program called “Happy Hydrangeas”.
August 11– Dr. Tamara Walkingstick, Extension Forester, will be the featured speaker on the third day of the event with a program called “Beyond Beauty: Native Trees and Edible Plants of Arkansas”.
August 18 - Sherri Sanders, County Extension Agent – Agriculture, will conduct a presentation on “An Overview of Container Gardening”.
Directions to the ASU-Beebe Farm: from Hwy. 67/167, take Exit 28 for Beebe/Conway, (from Searcy go over the overpass), go straight through the stoplight. You will be on Center Street; look for the armory on the right, the road to the farm is just past the armory. Follow the sign to the ASU-Farm.
The Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service offers its programs to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (large print, audiotapes, etc.), should notify the White County Extension office as soon as possible prior to the activity.
No pre-registration is required. For additional information, please call the White County Cooperative Extension Service at 1-800-467-8166 or 501-268-5394.
