Friday April 5th, 2013

11:00 AM-5:00 PM 

Saturday April 6th, 2013

8:30 AM-3:30 PM

 

The Union County Master Gardeners

Present

The 2013 New Albany Home and  Garden Show "Windows into Spring"

 
 

Stanley Wise Jr., has been working with the MSU Extension Service for 23 years. He has severed three counties with various positions in MSUES including 4-H Agent and County Agriculture Agent. He is past president of the MS Association of County Agriculture Agents and received that organizations Distinguished Service Award in 2003. He currently serves as County Extension Director in Union County and lives on the family farm in Pontotoc County where he was raised. The small 80 acre farm was purchased by his grandfather in 1926.

 

Stanley is responsible for the direction of educational programs in Agriculture & Natural Resources and Enterprise & Community Resource Development. He is coordinator of the Union County Master Gardener Program and is responsible for coordinating activities at the Union County Fair and Livestock Show which has a yearly attendance of over 15,000. He organized the Union County Farmers Market in 2004.

 

Stanley has worked with landowners, farmers, market gardeners and home owners to help them improve their agriculture and horticulture interests. He organizes and facilitates educational programs to help people become better managers of their agriculture and horticulture resources. He teaches classes on gardening, market farming and agritourism on the local and state-wide level.

 

In his “spare” time, Stanley manages Wise Family Farm, working with his brothers, sisters and kin folk to grow and sell tomatoes, sweet corn, purple hull peas, watermelons, corn, soybeans and hay on a small scale. Wise Family Farm also has an agritourism enterprise in October of each year, where they have a corn maze and pumpkin patch. They also plant plots of many Mississippi grown crops to educate students, families and other groups on the importance of Agriculture. Stanley helped organize the MS Agritourism Association in 2006 and is currently serving as President.

 

Stanley is an innovator and has developed growing techniques through experimentation on his own farm. One such innovation is growing tomatoes in bales of hay. He began this experiment in 2003. This method of gardening lead to his publishing a local information sheet called “No Stoop Gardening” and co-authoring an extension publication called “Growing in the Bale”.  Growing tomatoes in hay bales has spread throughout Mississippi and the U.S.

 

Stanley is a believer in “leaving the tiller in the shed.” He loves no-till farming. In 2010, Wise Family Farm received an NRCS grant to build a High-Tunnel where Stanley grew tomatoes using the hay bale method without ever disturbing the soil. This helps to retain soil structure, biological processes, conserves water and nutrients, and negates soil loss. He also promotes using other no-till methods for backyard gardens and small scale horticulture production.

 

Stanley likes to refer to himself as an Educated Tractor Driver and Philosopher of the No-Tellin. No tellin what might come out of his mouth. 

Kevin is actively involved in the floral industry and currently serves as a board member of the Mississippi Florists’ Association and the Southern Chapter of AIFD, Vice President of the Mississippi Teleflora Unit, member of the Tennessee State Florist Association and a member of the Society of American Florists.  Kevin was inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designers in 2011 and is one of fifteen floral artists in the state of Mississippi to be an Accredited AIFD member.  He has participated in design shows, workshops, and competitions all over the United States and currently serves on the design team for Fiesta Parade Floats, creating beautiful entries for the Tournament of Rose Parade.  Kevin’s dedication and love for floral design drives him to continue the learning process, share his knowledge, creativity, and enthusiasm with others.  Kevin loves to share his passion of the Floral Arts at every opportunity in hopes of making the public more appreciative of its beauty and the fragrance it provides.  Kevin’s love and interest of nature’s botanicals began at childhood from helping his parents and grandmothers in their flower beds and vegetable gardens.  “The purpose and function that God created for each plant has always just amazed me.  I love to observe the flowers and vegetables in the garden as they mature though out the summer and the bounty that they produce during harvest.  I will have to say, I’ve learned many valuable life lessons in our hot Mississippi garden as a child that have followed me though out my life.  Everything in life is not easy but through hard work, dedication, and faith in God, the fruits of your life will be blessed” says Hinton.

The New Albany Home & Garden Show 

 

Schedule of Events 

 

Admission is free to the fairgrounds and to all seminars with the exception of Kevin Hinton Aifd, Noon Friday April 5th-Tickets for this seminar are $15.00 and lunch will be served.  Please order your tickets early as seating is limited.  For tickets see any UCMG or call Tim at 662-316-0088 

 

Friday, April 5th, 2013

 

Ladies Building

 

12:00 Noon-"The Magic of Spring Flowers"

Kevin Hinton AIFD, Floral Designer

 

2:00 PM-"Raingardens and Other Simple Rain Collection Systems"

Bob Mercier ASLA, Landscape Architect

 

3:00 PM-“Growing and Using Herbs in the Landscape"

Dr. Lelia Kelly, Extension Professor of Horticulture

 

 

 

Exhibit Building


11:00 AM-“Growing Food for Sale at a Farmers' Market”

Dr. Jeff Wilson-MSU Area Horticulture Agent

12:00 Noon-“Container Gardening with Pinache'”

Ms. Susan Worthy-MAFES Horticulture Research Associate

North Mississippi Research and Extension Center

1:00 PM-“Starting a Greenhouse Grown Tomato Business”

Dr. Rick Snyder-MSU Extension/Research Professor

Central MS Research and Extension Center

2:00 PM-“Cut Flowers: High Value Crop for Small Farms”

Dr. Ken Hood-MSU Extension Professor-Department of Agriculture Economics

3:00 PM-“Back Yard Flock and Pasture Raised Chickens”

Jessica Wells-MSU Extension Instructor-Department of Poultry Science

Pavilion

11:00 AM-“Engaging Youth thru the Secret World of Plants”

Dr. John Guyton-MSU Extension Professor-Biochemical & Molecular Biology

 

Extension Office

 

2:00 PM-"Good Food-Simple and Easy"

Karen Caviness-Program Assistant-Family Nutrition Program

 

Saturday April 6th, 2013

 

Ladies Building

 

8:40 AM-"Master Gardeners & Mississippi State Ext.-Working Together"

Dr. Steve Martin, MSU Extension Research Professor

Head of North Mississippi Research and Extension Center

 

9:00 AM-“Hi Ho Hi Ho A High Tunneling We Go"

Stanley Wise, Union County MSU Ext. Agent

 

10:15 AM-"Intensive Planting-Small Space Gardening"

Carl Wayne Hardeman, Tennessee Master Gardener

 

12:15 PM-"Hydrangeas: The How, When, and Where"

Dr. Guihong Bi, MSU Associate Research Professor

                    Crystal Springs Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station

 

1:30 PM- “Trash to Treasures"

Jason Reeves, University of Tennessee Extension, West Tennessee Research and Extension Center, Research Horticulturist

 

2:45 PM-"Plants with Stories to Tell" 

Carol Reese, University of Tennessee Extension, West Tennessee Research and Extension Center, Ornamental Horticulture Specialist

 

Exhibit Building

 

9:00 AM-“Secret to Growing Awesome Tomatoes!”

Dr. David Nagel-MSU Extension Professor-Department of Plant and Soil Science

10:15 AM-“Taking the Sting out of Fireants”

Dr. Blake Layton-MSU Extension Professor-Department of Entomology

12:15 PM-“Agritourism: An Enterprise for Small Farms”

Dr. Rebecca Smith-MSU Extension Instructor: CommunityDevelopment/Agritourism MSU Department of Agriculture Economics

1:30 PM-“Controlling Destructive Diseases in the Home & Garden”

Dr. Alan Henn-MSU Extension Professor-Department of Plant Pathology

Extension Office
9:00 AM-“Basics of Blackberry Production”

Mr. Robert Hayes-Union County Blackberry Producer

10:15 AM-“Computer/Phone Apps for Home and Garden”

Ms. Jamie Varner-MSU Extension Instructor

Extension Center For Technology Outreach

12:15 PM-“Online Couponing for the Tech Savy Saver”

Ms. Mariah Smith-MSU Extension Professor-Extension Center for Technology Outreach

 

Pavilion Building

 

9:00 AM-"Soil Polymers and Making a Living Wreath"

Yvette Cutrer-LSU Master Gardener/Living Wreath Designer

 

10:15 AM-"Bee Keeping at Home-Eating Your Own Honey"

Denise Pugh, Tippah County Master Gardener

 

11:15 AM-"Armadillos-Catch Me if you Can"

Richard Starsky-Armadillo Trapper/Itawamba County Berry Farmer

 

12:15 PM-"Container Gardening with a Twist" 

Jaryd Brewer, Union County Master Gardener

 

1:30 PM-"Designing with Natives for the 5 Senses in the Landscape"

Sherra Owen, UC Master Gardener/Master Naturalist

 

There will have a pocket version of this schedule for you at the gate.

Carol Reese is employed by UT Extension as an Ornamental Horticulture Specialist. Her job is to keep the horticulture industry up to date, and attuned to the needs of an increasingly savvy gardening clientele. She writes a weekly gardening and nature column for the Jackson Sun, has served as the Q&A columnist for Horticulture Magazine, and contributes to many other gardening magazines.

Carol’s degrees in horticulture (B.S. and M.S.) are from Mississippi State University where she taught courses in plant materials and landscape design. Her speaking engagements take her around the nation where she has given programs at distinguished venues such as Longwood Gardens, Winterthur, the Raulston Arboretum, Whiteflower Farms, and the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore, to name a few.  Her vast practical experience, along with her enthusiasm and zany humor make her presentations memorable and compelling.   However, she says her favorite place to be is tromping local fields with her many dogs, taking a personal interest in the doings of the birds and the bees.

Jason grew up on a farm in western TN. He received his Master’s degree in Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design from UT Knoxville. He has worked at the Opryland Conservatories in Nashville, Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis and Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. He has also worked as a horticulturist in New Zealand. Since 2002, Jason has been employed as the UT Gardens research horticulturist and is located at the West Tennessee Research and Education Center in Jackson.

Jason has taken on many projects at the UT Gardens including planting hundreds of trees and conifers, creating a Certified Tennessee Arboretum and a Southeastern Regional Conifer Display Garden. Jason’s colorful plant combinations & unique garden art, made by recycling everyday objects, draws several thousand people to the center's annual lawn and garden show, Summer Celebration. Each fall, Jason creates a elaborate fall display at the center using more than 5,000 pumpkins, gourds and winter squash comprising over 90 varieties he grows each year. Jason is a contributing editor to Fine Gardening magazine and leads numerous domestic and international garden tours. In 2010, he toured a group through South Africa and in December he will host a tour to New Zealand. For more information on the gardens and events go tohttp://west.tennessee.edu/ornamentals/

Karen Caviness is the Nutrition Educator for the Family Nutrition Program at the MSU Union County Extension Office.  Karen's primary goal is to promote sound nutrition and health principles through education.  Children involved in this program receive activity based learning experiences that will enable them to influence the habits and practices of their parents.  Karen teaches nutrition education in all county schools, K through 3rd, Union County Headstart and conducts adult classes.  She has worked for the Union County Extension Office for 6 years.

She and her husband, Doyle have been married for 14 years.  Together they have 3 children and 8 grandchildren.  Karen is a native of Union County and is a graduate of Myrtle High School.

 

Yvette Cutrer is a Master Gardener from Larose, LA and has been making living wreaths since 1996.  She has been using soil polymers in all her plants and wreaths since 1989.  She says that during the drought of 2000 my plants were healthy and looked great.  While everyone else was watering every day and still losing plants, I was watering every few days. 

Dr. John W. Guyton III is a Mississippi State University Associate Extension Professor. He helped design the award winning Mississippi Master Gardeners program. His outdoor classroom models and teachings have resulted in his receiving the Great American Gardener Teaching Award from American Horticulture Society. He currently directs the oldest intergenerational residential Entomology and Plant Camp in the world and assisted in developing Mississippi's longest running Plant Camp which is managed by the Desoto County Master Gardeners. He also developed a Wildlife and Fisheries Immersion Camps that blended high interest outdoor sports with science. One of his favorite topics is "Using Elusive Plant Secrets to Engage Youth."

 

 

Dr. Lelia Scott Kelly is an Associate Extension Professor and the Consumer Horticulture Specialist for the Mississippi State University Extension Service. Her duties also include statewide responsibility for the Master Gardener Program. She has her M.S. and Ph.D. in horticulture from Mississippi State University and has worked for the Extension for nine years.  Before joining Extension she owned and operated two businesses, a landscape design and consulting business and a wholesale herb growing greenhouse operation. She also writes a gardening column for her hometown newspaper,"The Daily Corinthian", and is a regular contributor to "Mississippi Gardener" magazine. she is a frequent speaker at garden events all around the Southeastern United States. She lives and gardens in Corinth, Mississippi with her husband and sons.

Carl Wayne Hardeman is a Master Gardener whose interests lie in eating well and doing so from his own sustainable gardens with as little work and expense as possible. Carl is the leader of the 4500 square foot Victory Garden in Collierville, TN, which donated over5000 pounds of fresh produce to the local food pantry for the needy this year. Carl works in the information technology department for FedEx and also teaches classes in the local universities around Memphis, TN. Carl's dream is to promote a large network of small entreprenurial farms in North Mississippi growing fresh produce and selling it in a large regional Farmer's Market specializing in local sustainable produce including some organics and heirloom varieties. Carl and his wife and her pom-a-poo "Belle" live in Collierville, TN, but call the Pontotoc County community of Hurricane, MS home. Carl has been affectionately named "Poet Laureate of the South" for his witty sense of humor and his regular contribution of poems on southern humor. You can follow this humor on his facebook page and also on the facebook page "Southren Livin".

Denise Pugh has been a Master Gardener since 1999.  Her passion is cottage gardening using the tried-and-true passalong plants from her grandmother’s generation.  In recent years, Denise and her husband have become avid beekeepers and poultry enthusiasts.  The Pughs have two beehives, nine chickens and three grandsons.