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Expert Speakers and Topics for every Gardener and More

• Exciting speakers will speak on topics of current interest​
• Garden related Displays
• Informational Packet​
• Opportunity Table of Gardening Books and Garden Art​​

AUDIO INVITATION

REGISTRATION FORM

​FLYER WITH COMPLETE LIST OF SPEAKERS​

"Developing An Ozarks Green Thumb" 

 
Saturday, March 18, 2023
8:00 a.m. to 3:30 pm
First United Methodist Church
605 W. 6th Street
Mountain Home, AR 72653. 

JOE LAMP'L
'Joe Gardener'
Growing a Greener World
"A Garden to Weather Any Storm"

Daria McKelvey
Supervisor at Kemper Center for Home Gardening
at the Missouri Botanical Garden
"Missouri Botanical Gardens & What They Have to Offer"

​Ray Moranz
Grazing Lands Pollinator Ecologist with Xerces Society
and Partner Biologist for USDA's NRCS
"Creating Habitat for Pollinators"
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Jeff Quick
CEO of the Food Bank of North Central Arkansas
"Healthy Foods = Better Health Outcomes"

Guy Ames
Ames Orchard & Nursery
Horticulturist for the National Center for Appropriate Technology
"Fruit Trees, Bushes and Vines for Natural Growing in the Ozarks"

The seminars have become an area tradition with one presented each spring since 1994.  Speakers have come from all over Arkansas and the surrounding area to share their expertise and experience to help hundreds of attendees learn more about their gardens.  We have presented programs on flowers, herbs, vegetables, trees, soil, compost and even the insects, birds and critters who share our Ozark home.

There will be a topic for everyone, and timely to boot.  We may also have some new ideas to make the seminar even more interesting.

There will be a horticultural table, displays of the BCMG Community Garden Projects, an information table with our County Extension Agent Brad Runsick and more information on becoming a Master Gardener.
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We always feature an “opportunity table” full of gardening books and other garden related items. There will be free catalogs and plenty of garden information to take home and use in your garden.

Seating is limited for the seminar, so be sure to register early. The fee includes lunch.
 
Please continue to check this website for updated information on the Seminar and other future BCMG events.
 
The First United Methodist Church, 605 W. 6th St., is on the corner of Hwy. 178 W. and Bucher Dr., Mountain Home, AR 72653. 

​Directions to Go There

First United Methodist Church
Fellowship Center
605 W. 6th Street
​Mountain Home, AR 72653

Coming into town from either the east or west on Highway 62, proceed to 6th Street.  Turn South.  Proceed 0.60 miles to the Church
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