Beth Edney, Creative Solutions for Small Spaces

JCCC 4th Annual Horticultural Sciences Day
Urban Horticulture and Pest Management
Friday, Feb. 21

Welcome Address
Dr. Joseph Sopcich, president, JCCC
Dalton Hermes, CEO, Hermes Landscaping.

The full schedule is as follows:

1. Plenary Session
Urban Horticulture and Pest Management: How we articulate philosophy with practices.
Dr. Catherine H. Daniels, Washington State University Research and Extension Center, Puyallup, Wash.
Public conversations about sustainability and health/safety are big determiners in how pest management is perceived, and carried out, in urban areas. Your clients or neighbors may be professionals in other disciplines who are used to asking for evidence of special certification, advanced training, credible written materials or websites that explain potential effects from treatments on their property (clients) or your property (neighbors). Plant choices, amount of hardscapes, and urban food systems are also a big part of the sustainability, health and safety conversations. Join us for a look into how these conversations are playing out in the Pacific Northwest.

2. Four Seasons of Containers
Rita Randolph, Rita's Rare Plants, Tenn.
Everything from small tabletop centerpieces to large commercial installations, see how all kinds of plants are combined into what many people call 'Eye Candy'. Rita is a true artist and containers are her canvas, often spilling with unusual or underused colorful plant material. Professionally and passionately the focus is on plants for containers and small gardens. With an emphasis on Foliage FIRST, Rita explains why it's so important to combine textures and colorful foliage first, then, flowers are then a bonus! Annuals, perennials, conifers and shrubs will all be addressed. From the smallest pot to commercial installations, Rita's slides will inspire you.

3. Pesticide Labeling Pertaining to Pollinator Protection
Meredith Laws, Chief, Insecticide-Rodenticide Branch, Registration Division
Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

4. Lunch presentation: Growing Fruits and Nuts in the Urban Landscape
Matt Bunch, Horticulturist, The Giving Grove

5. Creative Solutions for Small Spaces
Beth Edney, CLD, Designs By The Yard, Ontario, Canada
Designing small spaces can test even the most experienced designers, let alone the home gardener. Join Beth as she presents several creative solutions to common small spaces.

6. Pest Management In Urban Horticultural Systems
Dr. Raymond Cloyd, Entomologist, K-State University

7. Growing Roses in Urban Landscapes
Ed Holland, Treat America

8. Community Gardens in the Midwest
Marlin Bates, Horticulture Extension Agent, K-State Research and Extension

9. Urban Pest Update
Collin Wamsley, State Entomologist, Missouri Department of Agriculture

10. Panel Discussion: Cultivate Kansas City
Teresa Kelly, Get Growing KC team member. Teresa Kelly has extensive experience operating market gardens, horticulture research projects, selling retail at a farmer's market and wholesale in Montana before she moved to Kansas City. She also was recently elected to the Roeland Park City Council.
Sherri Harvel, Get Growing KC team member, owner. Sherri started Root Deep Urban Farm in the fall of 2005 with the purchase of several vacant lots located in east Kansas City. She now sells at the Westport Farmers Market, through a small CSA, and works part-time for Cultivate KC as a Get Growing KC team member, helping others become growers.
Alicia Ellingsworth, Gibbs Road Farm, Farm Manager. Alicia manages the two-acre Gibbs Road Farm, a certified organic vegetable operation that sells at Brookside Farmers Market, through a 45 week, 40 member CSA, and to a growing list of local restaurants.

Saturday - Workshops

1. Pest Diagnosis and Management Workshop
Dr. Raymond A. Cloyd

2. Creative Solutions for Small Spaces
Beth Edney, CLD, Designs By The Yard, Ontario, Canada

3. Container Gardening Workshop: Come see first-hand how Rita 'Does it' !
Rita Randolph

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