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Creating an Edible Residential Landscape

Event date/time: 
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 9:00am to 3:15pm

Have your landscape and eat it too! One of the biggest landscape trends currently is the incorporation of edibles into the landscape. These multi-purpose landscapes unite aesthetics and function. Come join us learn about how to design and maintain beautiful, functional edible landscapes. Learn from the experts what fruits are best for edible landscapes and tips for their incorporation, showy vegetables for food and beauty, designing a food friendly and functional landscape, insect pests of ornamentals and their impact on edible plants, and permaculture basics for the home landscape and garden.

Registration

Preregistration required as space is limited; the cost is $75/$68 per person for three or more registrations from the same company (10% discount), lunch is on your own.

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Agenda

8:30 AM Attendee Check-In
9:00 AM Edible Landscaping with Fruit
Sonia Schloemann, UMass Extension Small Fruit Specialist
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Designing an Edible Landscape with Form and Function
Mandy Bayer, Extension Assistant Professor, Sustainable Landscape Horticulture, UMass Amherst
11:15 AM Insect Pests of Edible, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs
Tawny Simisky, UMass Extension Entomologist
12:15 PM Lunch (on your own).
1:15 PM Vegetable Garden Success
Russ Norton, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension
2:15 PM Using Permaculture Design for your Garden and Landscape
Lisa DePiano, Lecturer in Sustainable Agriculture, UMass Amherst
3:30 Credits & Adjourn

Pesticide and Professional Credits

1 contact hour for category 36 and Applicator's License have been approved, valid for equivalent categories in all New England states.  1 MCH credit has been approved, MCLP credits have been requested.

Contact's name: 
Ellen Weeks
Contact's email: 
Contact's phone on day of event: 
413-545-0895
277 Main Street Sturbridge MA