Breakout Sessions
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Wednesday Presentations
- Smart Yard Care - Being a Hero for Your Home – Close, Dave/Reilly,Frank/Stewart, Barb
- Planting on the Airwave – Cropp, Kathy/Atkins, Randy
- Look Back to the Future: New and Great Old Plants for Today's Garden – Hendricks, Bill
- Rainwater Harvesting: More than Just Rain Barrels – Jarvis, BJ
- Greening Your Garden While Protecting the Planet – Lamp’l, Joe
- Garden Kaleidoscope: The Garden Through Rose Colored Glasses – Macunovich, Janet/Nikkila Steven
- America In Bloom – Miller, Marvin
- Landscaping with an Environmental Focus – Murphy, Carrie
- Hortus Mustus - The Plants You Gotta Get – Nau, Jim
- Engaging Master Gardeners to Enhance Community Garden Efforts – Neill, Karen/Bradley, Lucy
- Diagnosing Soil Physical Problems – Rathjens, Richard
- Luscious Landscaping with Fruits – Reich, Lee
- Plant Breeders and Nature: The Inventors of Green – Schoellhorn, Rick
- Eating Green in Schools with JMG® – Seagraves, Randy/ Whittlesey, Lisa
- Gardening is for the Birds – Sherry, Roseanne
- Landscaping with Native Trees & Shrubs – Simeone, Vincent
Thursday Presentations
- Why Trees Matter: Environmental, Economic and Social Benefits of Trees – Chatfield, Jim/Bennett, Pam
- Why You Can’t Buy a Forest in a Can – Cullina, Bill
- Make Your Garden Work for You: The Visual Guide to Growing Healthy Vegetables – Deardorff, David/ Wadsworth, Kathryn
- Tough Plants for Tough Places – Hendricks, Bill
- Garden Photography – Hershberger, Wil
- Storybooks + Kids + Gardening = Innovative Programming – Hosimer, Pam
- Appalachian Culture and West Virginia's Botanical Gems: Native Orchids – Jolley, Doug
- Native Wildflowers for Eastern Gardens – Jorg, Brian
- Pollinator Gardens: How Home Gardeners Can Help Conserve Bee Biodiversity – Langellotto, Gail
- Cut Flowers for Profit and Pleasure – Liedl, Barbara
- Revolutionary Home Composting – Pleasant, Barbara
- Food Among the Flowers: The Basics of Edible Landscapes – Porter, John
- Garden Fitness- Workout Session – Quinlan, Nan
- Go Green, Grow Green & Save Greenbacks – Sagers, Larry
- Going Green with Junior Master Gardener Literature in the Garden – Seagraves, Randy/ Whittlesey, Lisa
- The Benefits of Beneficials – Walliser, Jessica
- A Different Green: California Native Plant Landscaping – Warren, Lucy