Vegetable Workshop: for parents and teachers

See the latest news from LSU AgCenter Communications at www.LSUAgCenter.com.

02/08/13

AgCenter schedules vegetable workshops for parents, teachers

Writer: Pamela Hodson at 225-763-3990 or phodson@agctr.lsu.edu

BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden is holding a series of vegetable workshops on a variety of gardening topics beginning in February.

The workshops will provide information to help parents and teachers establish and maintain a vegetable garden.

“Gardens at school or home provide environments for effective learning,” said LSU AgCenter gardening specialist Kiki Fontenot. “The workshops will provide gardening basics that parents or teachers can use to plant seeds of knowledge in children.”

“The workshops will include hands-on activities, and everyone attending will be getting their hands dirty while learning basic principles of gardening that can be applied in the home or school garden,” director of education at the Botanic Gardens Kyle Huffstickler said.

The workshop dates and topics include:

– February 21 – How to construct raised vegetable garden beds.

– April 11 – Starting and growing your own vegetable transplants.

– June 13 – What is a weed, what is a plant?

– August 8 – Insect identification.

– October 10 – Is it ready to harvest/eat?

– November 14 – Preparing your fresh vegetables.

All workshops will be held at LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden, located at 4560 Essen Lane in Baton Rouge from 6 p.m. until 7 pm. There is no charge for admission, but registration is required by contacting Huffstickler at 225-763-3990.

                                                                                ###

Kyle Huffstickler can be reached at 225-763-3990 or khuffstickler@agcenter.lsu.edu

KiKi Fontenot can be reached at 225-578-2417 or kkfontenot@agcenter.lsu.edu