GreenShare Field Day 2004

Saturday, September 18th

10:00 am – 3:00 pm

URI Learning Landscape Gardens, Kingston Campus

Rain date: Sunday, September 19th

2004 Field Day Highlights:

·        Learn how to design and build a patio for your garden with landscaper Richard Clark of Clark Farms, Wakefield and Dr. Richard Casagrande, URI’s gardening entomologist

·        Purchase a Soilsaver compost bin ($25 versus $79 retail) sponsored by RI Resource Recovery

·        Compost demonstrations ongoing to show you how to use your new bin

·        Bring your garden questions, plant problems, plants to be identified – experts on hand throughout the day to help!

·        Enjoy cooking demos, garden tours, workshops, plant sales and activities for kids and music (see below for details)

·        Presentation of Learning Landscape Endowment from the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association to URI President Robert Carothers and URI CELS Dean Jeffrey Seemann

·        See the progress on the Cheryl Tefft entrance to the Learning Landscape – materials for the new entryway donated by a group of West Kingston businesses included Liberty Cedar, South County Post and Beam and Holly Ridge Nursery

Outdoor Workshops
 (at the teaching wall unless otherwise noted)

10:15   Patio Possibilities: How to Design and Construct Your Perfect Patio – Richard Clark, URI Adjunct Professor and Owner, Clark Farms Garden Center and Dr. Richard Casagrande, URI Dept. of Plant Sciences

11:30 Sustainable Roses: Not a Contradiction in Terms - The Latest & Greatest Insect and Disease Resistant Roses for Your Garden  – Mike Chute, URI Master Gardener and Certified American Rosarian

12:00  Water Gardens – Joe Mack, Earth and Water Landscapes (BY THE WATER  GARDEN)

12:30 Composting – The Basics and Beyond  –Nan Quinlan, URI Master Gardener

1:30   They’re New, They’re Hot, They’re Hardy: Long-Blooming Hydrangeas – Dr. Jeff Adkins, URI Dept. of Plant Sciences and Bob Aube, Morningstar Nurseries

10:00 – 12:00 - Free plant clinic with URI Plant Protection specialist, Dave Wallace Bring in a specimen of your sick plant for free diagnosis and treatment advice

Garden Tours

10:30   Environmentally Friendly Gardening, Rosanne Sherry, URI Master Gardener Program Coordinator

11:15   Hostas and Daylilies: Perennial Staples for Rhode Island Landscapes -Professor   Will Green, URI Landscape Architecture Program

11:45   Pruning Tips for the Backyard Gardener –  Dave Schwartz

12:30  Favorite Sustainable Trees and Shrubs - Dr. Brian Maynard, URI Dept. of Plant Sciences

Ongoing in the Vegetable Garden

            Raised bed gardening,  Irrigation for vegetable gardens, Container gardening, Growing Great Tomatoes, Edible Flowers, Vertical gardening,  Handouts on various topics, Non-toxic sprays

All Day:

  • Soilsaver compost bin sale DIRT CHEAP –  $25/bin (versus $79 retail) – sponsored by RI Resource Recovery Corporation

  • Learn how to compost with FourSight Marketing Communications Group, Inc. and recycled compost from W. Warwick’s Wastewater Treatment Facility

  • Cooking demos—Continuous demonstrations (and tastings!) by local chef and author Normand Leclair and URI Master Gardener Lorrie Vezzineau.  Demos will take place at 10 am, 11:30 am, and 1 pm.

  • Southern Rhode Island Conservation District- Learn more about healthy lawn care practices and backyard conservation…Bulbs and conifer seedlings for sale

  • Ask an Expert – pose your toughest gardening questions to members of RINLA (the RI Nursery and Landscape Association) - staffed by the best horticultural professionals from throughout southern New Englan

  • URI Healthy Landscapes- Find out how to keep your gardens beautiful and environmentally friendly

  • Bird Watrchers Nature View

  • Earth Sea-  Floral fragranced body oils, floral paper, seaglass items, jams, jellies and more!

  • Toxics Information Project- Learn about less toxic landscaping techniques

  • RI Solar Energy Association- Solar cooking demonstrations!

  • People’s Power and Light- Find out more about renewable electricity and heating oil!

  • Gardening For Good- Try out easy to use gardening tools and discover the best elements in a therapeutic garden design

  • Betty’s Bee Farm and the RI Beekeepers Association- Honey and beeswax products

  • Ask a Master Gardener – for information on all your garden challenges

  • Master Gardener Plant Sale

  • Weed ID and Management- URI Plant Sciences

  • Aquaculture Demonstration Center- URI Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science

  • Free soil pH testing (bring a soil sample) – bring a cup of soil and pick up results before you leave the Field Day

  • Vendor plant sales & educational exhibits – Clark Farms, Holly Ridge, The Good Earth, Teaberry Gardens, Plastic Lumber RI, Dave-Chris Farm and other nurseries and garden centers will have samples of their best products on sale at the event

ESPECIALLY FOR KIDS

 

Take a Walk in the Butterfly Pavilion

Insect Zoo

Nature Crafts

Hands-On Activities with plants and bugs

Popcorn

 

Strolling musicians - Phil Edmonds and Otis Reed

 

The URI CE GreenShare Field Day is sponsored by:

URI Cooperative Extension Education Center with support from the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, Clark Farms Garden Center and the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association

 

Questions?  Call the URI CE Education Center at (401) 874- 2900