By Heather Craig and Lindsay Meylor
The Siouxland Garden Symposium will take place on March 22 at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Sioux City.
This year's symposium will feature a lineup of expert speakers covering a range of topics of interest to the gardening community. The event will kick off with check-in and refreshments at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 3:30 p.m. A luncheon will be catered by Aggie's of Sergeant Bluff.
Registration is $50.00 and closes on March 8.
Meg McAndrews Cowden is a national gardening speaker, author and the creator behind @seedtofork. She has a formal background in natural resource management and her current wheelhouse includes stay-at-home mother, writer, photographer and full-time resident gardener. She shares her passion for succession planting in her book, “Plant Grow Harvest Repeat” (Timber Press, 2022), on social media @seedtofork, and through her gardening subscription, The Modern Garden Guild. With over 25 years of growing experience, McAndrews Cowden has grown right alongside her gardens, exploring the connection between landscapes and food gardens ever since settling in Minnesota in 2003. She relishes the challenge of gardening in a cold climate. For her, the greatest yields are how a garden bountifully showers the attentive observer with life lessons—and the lessons are both profound and innumerable.
Ian Peterson is a horticulture educator for University of Nebraska Extension. His main passions in work are local food systems, home gardening and native prairie ecology. His goals are to get more people growing food in their communities and increase the area of native pollinator habitat backyard by backyard.
Amanda Beck is a grower from Natural Beauty. This presentation is an introduction to the broad topic of chemical and pesticide use in home gardens and landscapes including herbicides, fungicides and insecticides.
Shawn Tabke is the extension weed, pest and fair manager for Union County, South Dakota. With a broad background in horticulture and agricultural extension services, Tabke has developed a wealth of expertise in managing and advising on local agricultural issues. As a speaker at the Siouxland Garden Symposium, he will be covering the topic of backyard greenhouses, sharing his knowledge on how to optimize greenhouse environments for year-round gardening and enhance home gardening practices.
The Siouxland Garden Symposium is designed to be an enriching experience for garden enthusiasts of all levels. It is an opportunity to learn from experts, exchange ideas with fellow gardeners and kickstart your gardening journey in 2025.
This event is sponsored by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, South Dakota State University, Nebraska Extension, RBC Wealth Management and Loess Hills Wild Ones.
For more information and to register for the Siouxland Garden Symposium, please visit www.siouxlandgardenshow.org.
Source : iastate.edu