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• Honors Convocation is April 20
• 2006 Outstanding Alumnus
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• Organic garden plots available at AAREC
• First Web-based degree program well received
• 300 attend 2nd Women in Agriculture Conference
• Dr. C.E. Caviness — 1923-2006
• Marie Lavallard — 1912-2006
• GSD Initiation and Awards Banquet April 13
• GSD Student Research Competition winners
• Association supports Poultry Science recruiting
• Fultons endow Animal Science award
• Animal Science awards
• Horse Festival
• BAEG shares in environmental design award
• Food Science team wins College Bowl regional
• Students develop new food products
• HESC Student Awards
• Division helps host Ozark Food Processors
• OFPA presents scholarships

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UA club preaches and practices organic gardening

GroGreen — a new University of Arkansas club for students, staff and faculty — is providing organic garden plots for members, Sarah Moore said at a recent garden workday. She is a program technician in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences and is the club’s vice chair for communication.

Organic gardeners, from left, Trevor Baste, electrical engineering; Aaron Shaneyfelt, accounting; and John Mark Squires, mechanical engineering, work in their GroGreen plot.		GroGreen club members Sarah Moore and Brock Pruett till the garden and apply mulch during a workday.

"Our goal is to learn about organic production techniques and practice those in order to produce crops to sell to help finance club activities,” Moore said. “We hope to have an on-campus farmer’s market and market vegetables to campus food service establishments.”

The members hope to educate themselves and the campus community about organic and sustainable agriculture, healthy living and ecological-based lifestyles, Moore said. Members of the club are mostly students and some staff members. It is open to anyone associated with the University.

For information about joining GroGreen, contact Moore by e-mail at skm01@uark.edu.

The garden is on about one acre of land north of the Horticulture Shop at the Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center on Hwy. 112 north of campus. Faculty sponsors are Curt Rom and Elena Garcia, horticulture; Donn Johnson, entomology; and Larry Purcell in the department of crop, soil, and environmental sciences. Rom arranged for the use of the land, which has had no chemicals applied to it for at least five years, Moore said.

“The USDA guidelines for produce to be certified as organic require that no chemicals have been applied to the land for at least three years, and we will follow all of the guidelines,” Moore said. The garden is in an area that is being certified for organic production research and teaching programs.

A member or a team of members can have a 20 ft. x 20 ft. plot to plant and maintain or they can pitch in to help with a larger communal garden, Moore said.

Brandon Crouch, a student majoring in Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, is club chair. The other officers are vice chairs with various responsibilities, such as programs for Brock Pruett, a horticulture student; gardening for Sky Brandon, a CSES/BioChem student; and communication for Moore.

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