Name: Spring Alive 2025
Start: 2025-04-05T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-05T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Pioneer Bank, 1450 Adams Street, Mankato, MN

You are invited to attend our annual free and open to the public community education event! Register online today to save your space! https://z.umn.edu/a4gb
Schedule and Speakers:
9:00 -9:30 – Registration

9:30- 10:30 –“Problems in the Vegetable Garden” Weather, Soil, Water, Disease, and Pests.
Joyce Wilcox; Flower and Vegetable Enthusiast/ Master Gardener for 20 yrs.
10:30- 11:30 – “Growing Fruit Trees and Berries”
Diane Dunham; Retired Horticulture Instructor. Garden Columnist for Mankato Free Press.
11:30-12:30 – “Creating a Pollinator Friendly Landscape”
Julie Weisenhorn; Master’s Degree from U of MN in Horticulture and Visual Communications, Former State Director of Master Gardener Program, Employed at the Landscape Arboretum in teaching, research and outreach.
12:30-1:30 – “Reintroducing Native Plants to our Gardens”
Lucas Youngerberg; Student of Environmental and Political Sciences at MSU, Mankato, member of the 2025 Master Gardener Intern Class, worked at South Central Minnesota Landscapes for 12 years.