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Integrated Pest Management
July 13, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Are garden pests driving you mad? Join our next GrowTogether HOCRN Community Garden Class:
Integrated Pest Management: What’s Bugging You?
Location: Heber-Overgaard Fire Dept. Community Room, 2061 Lumber Valley Rd., Overgaard
Date: Saturday, July 13th
Time: 2-3:30 PM
Limited to 50 attendees.
Register Here!The lovely rains and wet winter have the potential to bring many garden pests out this summer.
- Speaker Michele McGuiness 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.
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