Iowa Master Gardener Program Offers Summer Webinar Series

The Iowa Master Gardener program is once again offering a series of summer webinars. The 2012 series titled "Garden Goodness" will be hosted by Iowa State University Extension county offices on the fourth Tuesday of the month, May through August.

Each session will provide information about vegetable gardening, but from a variety of perspectives. “We selected 'Garden Goodness' as our theme for the 2012 series because of the current public interest in growing food,” said Jennifer Bousselot, Iowa Master Gardener and webinar series coordinator. “We want to introduce our participants to as many aspects of growing food as we can during these sessions.”

Dates, presenters and topics for the 2012 series are:

• May 22, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Ajay Nair – Growing Vegetables. Nair is an ISU Extension horticulture specialist.
• June 26, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Angie Tagtow – Food Gardening and Health; and 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Denise Fikes – Glenwood’s Giving Garden. Tagtow is an environmental nutrition consultant; Fikes is the Mills County Extension horticulture assistant.
• July 24, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Linda Naeve – Peoples Garden Project and Working with Youth; and 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Cindy Haynes – Edible Ornamentals. Naeve is an ISU Extension value added agriculture specialist; Haynes is an associate professor in the Department of Horticulture and an ISU Extension consumer/urban horticulture specialist.
• August 28, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Angela Tedesco – Top Ten Sustainable Gardening Tips from Turtle Farm. Tedesco is owner of Turtle Farm, an organic vegetable, fruit and herb CSA near Granger, Iowa.

Contact the Black Hawk County Extension Office at 319.234.6811 for more information and to register. Cost per session is $5 for Master Gardeners and $10 for non-members.