People’s Garden Training Announce Healthy Gardening Training Series
Open to USDA employees and the public, the USDA People’s Garden Initiative and Cooperative Extension Service are happy to announce the Healthy Gardening Training Series.
These sessions will cover a wide variety of horticultural and garden related topics taught by Extension Educators across the country. Part of the coursework for our Executive Master Gardener Program here at USDA Headquarters, eight Webinars will be held between March 29, 2011 and May 3, 2011:
All times listed below are shown in Eastern Daylight Savings (EDT) time. Go to http://time.gov/ for information on time zone differences across the United States.
- 3/29 – (noon), Garden Botany, Rosie Lerner (Purdue)
- 4/5 – (noon), Soil & Fertility in the Garden, Scott Guiser (Penn State)
- 4/12 – (noon), Introduction to Garden IPM, Elizabeth Brown (Texas A&M)
- 4/19 – (noon), Garden Insects, Blake Layton, (Mississippi State)
- 4/26 – (noon), Types of Public Gardens & Their Value, Rebecca Finneran, (Michigan State)
- 4/26 – (12:30 pm), Gardening & The Hungry, Gary Oppenheimer (AmpleHarvest)
- 5/3 (noon), Garden Pesticide Use & Environmental Stewardship, Kerry Hoffman-Richards (Penn State)
- 5/3 – (12:30 pm), Finding Answers to Gardening Questions, Linda Chalker-Scott, (Washington State)
Registration for Healthy Gardening Training Series Webinars
There is no charge for registration and all sessions are open to USDA employees and the public. USDA employees, please follow your agency’s protocol for training approval. You may register for one or all of the sessions depending on your interests.
Registration for Healthy Gardening Training Series is open now at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/broadcasts/emg/
Archived Session
Within several days after each live training session, archived training sessions will be available here.
