Date: Saturday, July 13, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 pm
Location:
Rim
Country Senior Center, 2171 B Street, Overgaard, AZ 85933
Limited to 50 attendees.
Register Below.
The lovely rains and wet winter have the potential to bring
many garden pests out this summer.
- Speaker
Michele McGuinness will walk you through Integrated Pest Management
(IPM) strategies for garden pest management for our Arizona vegetable
gardens.
- She
will talk about how to balance the ecosystem that is your garden so good
bugs thrive and you create conditions that are unfavorable for those pests
that would stop you from having an abundant harvest.
About the Speaker:
Michele
McGuinness loves growing food and edible flowers. She has been gardening since
childhood and has been a Master Gardener since 2017. She teaches vegetable
gardening, integrated pest management, and other growing classes for the
Maricopa Master Gardener program and here in Heber for the HOCRN GrowTogetherGarden.
Michele also runs the Yavapai school garden and works weekly with kids to teach
them how to eat what they grow and is currently researching to author a book on
vegetable gardening in the high and low desert of Arizona.
Exchange: Free for Garden Members + Friends of the
Garden.
Non-members: Suggested donation of $5.
