URI Outreach Center & URI Master Gardeners
invite you to attend the

Located at URI East Farm on Rt 108 in Kingston, RI
Festival admittance & parking is free!

About the Festival
The eleventh annual URI East Farm Spring Festival is a fundraiser organized and hosted by the URI Outreach Center & URI Master Gardeners. The event, started in 2002 by a group of URI Master Gardeners who volunteered at the farm, has grown into the biggest public showcase for URI drawing close to 3,000 visitors to the 79-acre research facility. The festival's main goal is to educate the public on sound environmental practices through workshops and informational exhibits.

Festival Highlights
URI Master Gardener grown annuals, perennials, vegetables & herbs for sale
*** Tip-bring a wagon or cart ***

Educational tent showcasing URI Research & Outreach programs, environmental exhibitors & non-profits

Family tent hosting educational activities, crafts and animals from URI Peckham Farm

Information & family activities in the URI Fisheries Building

Free pH soil testing provided by URI Master Gardeners
*** Bring 1 cup of soil ***

South Kingstown Farmers Market

Rain Barrel sales by RI Water Lady-preorder and save!

Electronic Waste Collection by Indie Cycle! Click here for more info.

Visit the URI TickEncounter booth from 10-11 to have a pair of your gardening/golf/dog walking shoes treated with permethrin tick repellent (thanks to our friends at REI) Plan to drop the shoes off and pick them up as you leave. Treatment should last about a month.

Donate blood with the RI Blood Center! Look for the bus near the family area.

Live music, food & raffle

Free workshops & demonstrations
Drip Irrigation: Conservation Starts in Your Garden at 11 am
Gardening with Rhody Natives^TM at 12 pm
How to Make Creative Planters using Hypertufa at 1pm

Fish Filleting demonstration at 11am & 1pm in the URI Fisheries building
Composting Demos & Edible Growing Tips in the URI Master Gardener Demonstration Garden
Barnyard StoryTime in the family tent at 1pm with Usborne Books & More!
Container Gardening 101 at 11:30 at greenhouses


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