The Cumberland Master Gardeners invite you to come to the Fall Gardeners’ Festival on Tuesday, August 31 at the Plateau Discovery Gardens within the UT Plateau Research and Education Center, 320 Experiment Station Road, Crossville starting at 10 am and concluding at 4 pm CDT. The Festival is open to the public and is free.
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Title: Chattanooga Area Food Bank Fall Planting Workshops
Location: Evelyn Davenport Navarre Demonstration Garden – Chattanooga Area Food Bank
Description: Master Gardeners will teach starting fall vegetable seeds starting with a workshop on starting fall seeds (choice of either Wednesday, September 8 at 7 pm or Saturday, September 11 at 10 am). Groups and individuals [...]
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Are you interested in helping to conserve, rehabilitate and restore our native lands? The August 26 “Seeds of Success” training session will be a great opportunity for your to learn about how you can participate in area seed collection programs being held this fall. The training will be held in the Fishbowl Meeting Room in [...]
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Title: 2010 Junior Master Gardener Specialist Training Conference
Location: Aldridge Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, AL
Description: The 2010 JMG Specialist Training Conference is a “train-the-trainer”co nference that will be hosted through Alabama Cooperative Extension at Aldridge Botanical Gardens. The training conference is being hosted by Luci Davis, Alabama JMG State Coordinator and will be conducted by the [...]
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Just one week after the first signs of Emerald Ash Borer beetle in Tennessee were found, the Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) confirmed a state forester’s discovery of Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD) in the same area – Knox County in East Tennessee. Thousand Cankers Disease is a fungus that affects walnut trees and is potentially [...]
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Title: Mid-South Native Plant Conference
Location: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN
Description: After a 13-year hiatus, the Mid-South Native Plant Conference returns to Memphis October 8 through October 10, 2010. With the theme “Natives and Beyond: Sustainable Plants, Gardens and Communities” the conference brings a world-class roster of nationally acclaimed horticulturalists, botanists, and [...]
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Title: 19th Annual Urban Forestry Conference
Location: Chattanooga Choo Choo
Description: Expand your urban forestry toolbox
* Learn about new sustainability initiatives
* Get tips on preserving the urban forest
* Learn about Chattanooga’s green movement
* Get the latest on green infrastructure design
* Complete pesticide track from insect infestations to pesticide use and legal requirements
Affordable pricing puts the conference within [...]
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Title: Hamilton County Farm Tour
Location: Leave from Ag Center
Description:
The 2010 Farm Tour will be held Thursday, July 29. Registration for the event starts at 8:15 am and the bus will leave promptly at 9:00 am from the J. Merle Crawley Agriculture Service Center, 6183 Adamson Circle. The cost is $5.00 and includes lunch and [...]
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The Native Plants and Wildflower group is pleased to announce that Dennis Horn will be the speaker at the August 2 meeting to talk about Tennessee wildflowers. The meeting will be held at the Ag Center (see map below) and the presentation will begin promptly at 6:30 pm.
Dennis Horn is the lead author of the [...]
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At this time of year, you are probably seeing those tell-tale shredded flowers and skeletonized leaves. Upon closer inspection, it’s confirmed — the Japanese Beetles (Popillia japonica) are back and busy eating and mating in preparation for next year’s invasion. And you know that when you see one or two, you’ll likely see hundreds in [...]
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