Gardening in the Valley Symposium

Scheduled Topics and Speakers Include:

Organics: Origins, Definitions, and How Organic are the Products You Buy?
Karin French, USDA Training Office

Big Dreams, Small Garden: Creating the Extraordinary in Your Ordinary Space.
Marianne Willburn, Author and Journalist

Medicinal Plants: How to Use Them in Your Home in Everyday Items.
Wendell Combest, Shenandoah University Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

Best Practices for Small Farms: Making a Living by Growing Crops & Raising Livestock.
Tyler and Angel Wakeman of the fifth generation family farm Valley Roots Farm

Native Plants: Attracting Butterflies with Flora Local to the Shenandoah Valley.
Stacey Morgan Smith, VCE Master Gardener

$65 registration includes continental breakfast, hot lunch, and free parking, plus chance to mingle with speakers, win door prizes and ticket auctions, enjoy a mini seed swap, and talk gardening with EMGs and other attendees.

Shop from garden vendors with plants, herbs, and other goodies, as well as books for sale by the speakers and authors of interest.

Check in between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and enjoy breakfast.
Welcome address kicks off the day at 8:45 a.m., and talks end by 4:00 p.m.

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Garden Fest

Northern Shenandoah Valley Master Gardener Assocation’s annual Garden Fest at Belle Grove will be Saturday, June 1, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. with free admission and free parking.

It will include:

MASTER GARDENER Plant Sale
Hands-On Workshops,
Garden and Specialty Vendors,
Children’s Activities,
Second Hand Rose Rummage Sale,
Birdhouse Contest
Garden Tool Sharpening,
Touring of the Historic Belle Grove Manor House 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. ($5 for those 12 and older, 11 and younger free of charge)
Raffles, Food, And More . . .

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