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Spring Kickoff for Landscape & Lawn Care 2025

Landscape with trees, perennials and lawn.
March 25, 2025

This in-person education program will help equip you with knowledge and skills you can use in your management program for the upcoming season. Come and enjoy this in-person opportunity to ask questions of our Extension Specialists and to network with other green industry professionals!

When: March 25, 8:45 am to 3:30 pm

Where: Sturbridge Host Hotel, Sturbridge MA

Attend either the morning or afternoon session, or the entire day, with a different set of topics in each session.


MORNING SESSION - WOODY ORNAMENTALS TOPICS, 8:45 am - 12:15 pm

  • Woody Plant Diseases: Existing and Emerging Trends in 2025

  • Managing Pollinator Friendly Landscapes

  • 2025 Updates - Tree and Shrub Insects

AFTERNOON SESSION - TURF TOPICS, 1:15 - 3:30 pm

  • Turf Weed Management: A Planning Checklist for the 2025 Season 
  • Now in Turf Insect Management: Looking Back to Look Ahead 

Pesticide Credit Available

For the MORNING session - 2 pesticide contact hours for categories 29, 36, Dealer, and Applicators License.
For the AFTERNOON session - 2 pesticide contact hours for categories 37, Dealer, and  Applicators License.

 

For more details and to register, go to https://ag.umass.edu/landscape/upcoming-events

 

Topics: 
Commercial Horticulture