About this Event
Whether you’re growing food for your family, your community, or your market stand, this year’s symposium will offer practical, research-based guidance you can use right away.
What to expect:
- Proven strategies for productive vegetable gardens
- Tips for soil health, pests, and disease management
- Sessions designed for both home gardeners and small-scale growers
Agenda
🕑: 08:00 AM
Registration
Info: All pre-registered attendees must stop by the registration table before attending any event sessions. At that time, you will be given a take-home packet with useful vegetable gardening tips and your ticket for the raffle at the end of the symposium. You will place your raffle ticket in a bucket for one of the three baskets to be raffled off.
🕑: 08:00 AM - 01:30 PM
Vendor Alley
Info: Grant/Adams Master Gardeners will be offering geranium and possibly drought tolerant plant starts as well as hosting a plant clinic where you can ask specific questions about plants, lawns, pests, diseases, etc. Other vendors will be on hand to inform you about soil testing, composting, noxious weeds, bees and pollinators, water conservation, and many more gardening topics.
🕑: 08:45 AM - 09:15 AM
Early Bird Breakout Session
Info: Attendees will have the opportunity to choose one of the following topics: Bees, Irrigation, or Container Vegetable Gardening.
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Opening Keynote Speaker: Issac Lnenicka
Info: Isaac will be speaking on Growing Great Vegetables in Grant/Adams Counties.
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Breakout Session #2
Info: Attendees will have the opportunity to choose one of the following topics: Bugs/Pests, Composting, or Herbs/Native Herbs.
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Breakout Session #3
Info: Attendees will have the opportunity to choose one of the following topics: Winterizing the Garden, Funding Opportunity for the Small Farmer, or Preserving Home Grown Food.
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion: The Good the Bad and the Ugly of Vegetable Gardening
Info: Local Master Gardeners will share their successes and failures with growing vegetables to give the attendees bits of wisdom to avoid the same pitfalls and to achieve the same success in growing abundant, nourishing, and flavorful vegetables in their own gardens.
🕑: 12:45 PM - 01:30 PM
Closing Keynote Speaker: Judy Conlow
Info: Judy will be speaking on pollination in a presentation titled "Lemurs and Wolves". She is a vivacious speaker who will keep you laughing while you learn.
🕑: 01:30 PM
Wrap-Up and Raffle
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
ATEC Bldg, 7611 Bolling St NE, Big Bend Community College, Moses Lake, WA, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 7.18
