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June 3, 2008 |
1. Summer and Fall Dedications and Field Days
2. SWREC hosts horticulture field day, June 5
3. Plant diagnostic booth at Farmers Market
4. Rockefeller Institute to host tomato workshop, June 28
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1. Summer and fall dedications and field days
Field days and other events at Division of Agriculture locations this summer will include the dedication of three new buildings. The following is a list of events featuring crops, livestock, forestry, wildlife and turfgrass.
June 5. Horticulture Field Day at Southwest Research and Extension Center, Hope. >>Read more...
June 12. Leland Tollett Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Dedication. Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Deane Street, Fayetteville. >>Read more...
June 21. Forestry Field Day at Savoy Research Unit west of Fayetteville.
June 24. Field Day and Building Dedication at Fruit Research Station, Clarksville.
July 10. Crops Field Day at the Lon Mann Cotton Research Station, Marianna.
July 24. Rohwer Research Station Field Day and Building Dedication.
August 6. Turfgrass Field Day at the Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Hwy. 112, Fayetteville. Details at: turf.uark.edu/education/field.html
August 13. Crops Field Day at the Rice Research and Extension Center, Stuttgart.
(Date to be announced). Southern Pea Field Day at the Vegetable Substation, Alma.
September 18. Forestry and Wildlife Field Day at the Southwest Research and Extension Center, Hope.
October 18. Forestry and Wildlife Field Day at the Pine Tree Branch Station, Colt.
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2. SWREC hosts horticulture field day -- June 5
The Division of Agriculture will hold a horticulture field day June 5 at the Southwest Research and Extension Center near Hope.
The afternoon field day will feature field tours of research projects, a barbecue dinner and a "walk-in" plant disease clinic for home, garden and lawn plants.
The field tour topics include:
-- blackberry and peach breeding update,
-- fertilizer recommendations for southern orchards,
-- how to pick up right plants for southern Arkansas yards,
-- manage tomato nematode with biofumigation crops, and
-- lawn and turf weed management.
An indoor session on vegetable garden disease management will follow the field tours. A complimentary dinner will be at 6:20 p.m. and the plant disease clinic will follow it. Participants are invited to bring their problems plants in for diagnosis.
Visitors who plan to attend the dinner are asked to RSVP by May 27 by calling 870-777-9702, extension 109, or by e-mail to qchen@uaex.edu.
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3. Plant diagnostic booth at Farmers Market 1st and 3rd Saturdays
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| Plant pathology graduate students, from left, Keiddy Esperanza Urrea-Romero, Maria Isabel Villarroel-Zeballos, and Jinita Sthapit staff a diagnostic booth at the Fayetteville Farmers Market on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays. |
The Plant Pathology Graduate Students Association is staffing a Plant Diagnostic Booth the first and third Saturday of each month at the Fayetteville Farmers Market on the downtown square. The public is invited to bring samples of plants for diagnosis of problems. The booth will next be staffed on June 7 and 21.
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4. Rockefeller Institute to host tomato workshop - June 28
Boasting 20 varieties of tomatoes in its vegetable garden, the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute will host a "From the Seed to the Plate" workshop atop Petit Jean Mountain from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 28.
Throughout the day, Division of Agriculture horticulturalists David Hensley, horticulture department head, and Janet Carson, extension horticulturalist, will provide tours of the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute's vegetable garden. Faculty members Teddy Morelock and Steve Vann will present workshop sessions.
The workshop will include sessions on growing tomatoes and ways to serve them.
"In our garden, we grow heirloom tomato varieties, most of which are not available at your local grocery store," said Sandy Davies, who coordinates the tomato workshop.
Tomato tasting will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Rockefeller Institute's Teaching Barn. The tasting fee is $5.
Two alternative sessions focusing on growing tomatoes will take place in the morning at 10 and in the afternoon at 2 at the Teaching Barn. The cost to attend the tomato growing session is $15.
Chef Rick Tankersley of Sysco Food Services will be the presenter in the tomato culinary demonstration at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tankersley will have a variety of recipes - from tomato fritters to tomato pine nut soup. This session will be held in the state-of-the-art Culinary Classroom. The cost is $25.
Exhibits and vendors at the tomato workshop include Petit Jean Honey, Petit Jean Foothills Nursery, Bloomin' Baskets, Heritage Seeds, a tomato salsa sale featuring recipes from Rockefeller Institute executive chef Heather Welch, and a Petit Jean Extension Homemakers Tomato Cookbook sale.
To register for the tomato workshop online, visit www.uawri.org and click on "Register Now" from the "Educational Programs" menu. To register by phone, call (501) 727-5435.
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