New Albany Home and Garden Show

Spring is in Bloom

March 30^th, 31^st, 2012

Ladies Building

March 30^th, 2012

11:45 AM – Welcome–Sherra Owen (Union County Master Gardener)

12:00 Noon – “Southern Entertaining with Ease and Style" -Patty Roper

{Tickets for Patty Roper presentation must be purchased in advance and seating will be limited (Includes Lunch)}

2:00 PM–“Charlie on Safari” – Margaret Gratz

3:00 PM–Visit with our Vendors

4:00 PM–"How to Make Your Landscape  the Talk of the Town"

                  Dr.Lelia Kelly

5:15 PM–Hamburger Supper ($5.00 per plate)

6:00 PM–Mississippi Master Gardener Show and Tell

                 “Get Connected – Share Ideas and Brag a Little”

                 Northeast District Meeting

Ladies Building 

March 31^st, 2012

8:30 AM–Welcome–Tim Burress (Garden Show Chairman)

                                      Pat Campbell (UCMG President)

8:40 AM– “Bringing the University to the People” -

                 Dr. Gary Jackson

9:00 AM– “Hydrangeas For Sun to Shade” – Linda Lanier

10:15 AM- "Plant Propagation-Adding More plants Without the

                   Cost" - Gail Barton

11:15 AM – Lunch and Visit with Our Vendors

12:15 PM- “Capturing the Garden Through the Camera Lens” –                   Lowery Wilson

1:30 PM- "Frugal Landscaping" -Rick Griffin

2:45 PM- “Slow Gardening-All Sense, All Seasons-

                 Regardles of Skill or Style" -Felder Rushing  

Pavilion Room

9:00 AM – "Gardening for Profit" -Stanley Wise               

10:15 AM – "Rootin, Tootin, No Till Sustainable Vegetable

                     Gardening" - Carl Wayne Hardeman

12:15 PM- "Gardening by the Signs" - Charles Wood

Exhibit Building

9:00 AM – "Old Garden Roses" -Bill Fisher

10:15 AM - "Put Wow in Your Containers" -Jaryd Brewer 

12:15 PM - "Building a Bird Feeder Using Treasures From

                    the Thrift Store" -Judy George 

Extension Office

10:15 AM – “It Doesn’t Have to Taste Bad to be Healthy” – The Cooking Divas (Karen Caviness & Judith Ward)

Free admission to Fairgrounds and all presentations with the exception of Patty Roper. Seating for Patty Roper is limited to 150 people.  Door prizes will be given away both days throughout the day.  There will be plant, yard art, birdhouses, exhibition booths, and food vendors.

There will also be a drop off point for non-perishable food items to be donated to the food pantry

Patty, a native Jacksonian, received her degree from the University of Mississippi.  She taught in the Jackson Public Schools for nine years.  She is a member of First Presbyterian Church where she has served on the decorations committee, the flower committee, the missions conference, and the receptions committee.  She has served on other committees with First Presbyterian Day School, Jackson Preparatory School, Art for Heart, the Gallery Guild of the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Symphony League, several garden clubs, Bible studies, and various volunteer organizations.

Patty entertains family and friends with a simple approach to beauty and elegance and prepares classic Southern recipes.  She shares her innovative decorating and entertaining ideas in the Easy Does It and Design Lesson departments of Mississippi Magazine.  She is the author of 4 entertaining and recipe books: Easy Hospitality, Easy Does It Entertaining, At the Table, and Easy Parties and Wedding Celebrations.

She is currently the editorial director for Mississippi Magazine and lives in Flowood, Mississippi, with her husband Richard and has one daughter Beth. 

Tupelo, MS native, class of 1956, college at the “other” MSU, Accounting Major.  Married to the former Ms. Edwina Williams, of Bells, TN, met at the “other” college.  Father of two children, graduates of Tupelo High, and “the” MSU, both married and 3 precious grandchildren.  Retired from active paid employment since 1998. 

Served as a member of the Lee County Master Gardener association, volunteer of the MS State Extension Service since 2003, where have served as Treasurer for the past 6 years.  Was elected to the MS State Master Gardener Board of Directors in 1996, and served one year term as State President in 1999.  Active in the MG’s and volunteer hours approximately 150 per year. 

Member since elementary school age of the United Methodist Church, St. Mark being my home church in early years, and also since return to Tupelo in the early 1980’s.  Active in Outreach Ministry with an organization called Discover God’s Call, a program of the Foundation For Evangelism.  Affiliated with that organization for approximately 12 years, presently serving first two year term as the MS Chapter President, also a member of the DGC National Council, with state affiliated chapters is several other southern states. 

Special interest, outside of family, church and outreach, is gardening in all categories, major love is growing roses, and vegetable gardening.  Special joy in the study and sharing of the “old time folklore ways” of garden by the Almanac.  Also enjoy traveling in the western states with a special hobby of photography in the beautiful rock and mountain formations created by our Creator of the Universe.

Stanley Wise, Jr. 

Stanley 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 works 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. 

Felder Rushing 

Does my currently having over half a million frequent flier miles tell you what my life is like? “

Felder Rushing is a 10th-generation American gardener whose pioneer ancestors settled across the Southeast, bringing many plants with them. Rushing's overstuffed, quirky cottage garden has been featured in many TV programs and magazines (including a cover of Southern Living), and includes a huge variety of weather-hardy plants along with a collection of folk art. There is no turfgrass, just plants, yard art, and people places.

The author or co-author of 16 gardening books (including several national award winners) and former Extension Service urban horticulture specialist (fully retired, at an early age) has written thousands of gardening columns in syndicated newspapers, and has had hundreds of articles and photographs published in regional and national garden magazines.  Felder hosts a popular weekly call-in garden program on NPR affiliate stations called The Gestalt Gardener.

Felder gives many dozens of lectures and workshops every year, coast to coast and overseas, at flower shows, horticultural and plant society meetings, and Master Gardener conferences.

Believing that too many would-be gardeners are intimidated by a crush of "how-to" experts ("We are daunted, not dumb," he says), Felder uses an offbeat, "down home" approach rife with humorous anecdotes and garden-irreverent metaphors, zany observations, and stunning photography and to help gardeners get past the "stinkin' rules" of horticulture.

Rick Griffin is a Lanscape Architect in private practice in Jackson,MS. He received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Design from Mississippi State University in 1971.

His first job after graduation was as Jackson's first Landscape Architect. After five years he left the city to begin his private practice and for the past 33 years he has practiced his profession in Mississippi and surrounding states.

In 1986 he was presented the first outstanding alumni award. Since he began his practice, over 100 articles have been written on his work, most of which were in "Southern Living Magazine". His business partner for the past 20 years is Clifton Egger. Rick and Clifton along with his daughter, Amy Schrock, also own Latitudes, an interior design firm. This part of the business started 15 years ago. Rick teaches continuing education classes at Millsaps College and speaks around the south. He is often a guest on the Felder Rushing radio program. Rick and his wife's hobby is their house and garden. He is also proud to be a member of Ascension Lutheran Church.

Steve Bender of "Southern Living Magazine" had this to say about Rick Griffin. "One of the few landscape architects out there who actually knows and loves plants---so his designs are alot more interesting."

Felder Rushing is quoted as saying: "Rick is the most creative landscape architect in the state and if it wasn't for Rick's design, my garden would never have made the cover of "Southern Living."

Bill has been a part of the master gardener program for the past 9 years.  He has served 2 terms as president of Lee county MGs.  Bill is also part of the team that has made Lee County master gardeners "Hort line" a success.  Bill has been  Chairman of Hortline project for the past 5 years.  He is also chairman of Learning Series project 2 years.  Bill was selected  Mississippi MG of year for 2011 fo his outstanding contribution in the teaching and educational programs in and around Lee County.