{"id":579,"date":"2008-03-26T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=579"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:24:38","slug":"university-museum-to-host-master-gardeners-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/university-museum-to-host-master-gardeners-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"University Museum to Host Master Gardeners Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span>OXFORD, Miss. &#8211; The Master Gardeners of Oxford and<br \/>\nLafayette County launch their annual spring lecture series<br \/>\nThursday (March 27) at the University of Mississippi.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Hosted at the University Museum, the noon brown bag<br \/>\nprograms are scheduled each Thursday through April 24. They<br \/>\nare open to the public at no charge. The theme for this<br \/>\nyear&#8217;s series is &#8220;Gardening Outside the Box.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>&#8220;We are thrilled to have five experts to speak at the<br \/>\nSpring Lecture Series,&#8221; said Master Gardener Anna Haller.<br \/>\n&#8220;These individuals are known for their knowledge and<br \/>\nexpertise far beyond Oxford and Mississippi. They are the<br \/>\n&#8216;rock stars&#8217; of the gardening world.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Scheduled topics and presenters are as follows:<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n\t<span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<li> March 27 &#8211; &#8220;Garden Pharmacopoeia: From Dirt to<br \/>\n\tTetracycline.&#8221; Nan Johnson, research horticulturist at the<br \/>\n\tMedicinal Plant Garden of UM&#8217;s National Center for Natural<br \/>\n\tProducts Research, addresses the medicinal plant world,<br \/>\n\tincluding the safety of supplements derived from plants.<br \/>\n\tShe also plans to discuss how to germinate<br \/>\n\tdifficult-to-grow plants and give an overview of the work<br \/>\n\tat NCNPR.\n\t<\/li>\n<li> April 3 &#8211; &#8220;Kinder Gardening: Carrots and Beans for Boys<br \/>\n\tand Girls.&#8221; Chuck Waller, UM clinical instructor of<br \/>\n\tcurriculum and instruction, discusses how he uses<br \/>\n\thorticulture to help emotionally disturbed children develop<br \/>\n\ttheir social skills. Waller, who also teaches at Magnolia<br \/>\n\tSchool in Horn Lake, owns and operates Walnut Ridge Nursery<br \/>\n\tin Lafayette County.\n\t<\/li>\n<li> April 10 &#8211; &#8220;Doing Time in the Garden: Penitentiary<br \/>\n\tPotatoes and Corn for Convicts.&#8221; Leo Mask, former Pontotoc<br \/>\n\tCounty sheriff, discusses how he fed prisoners at a cost of<br \/>\n\t40 cents per day using fresh vegetables the prisoners<br \/>\n\tcultivated.\n\t<\/li>\n<li> April 17 &#8211; &#8220;The Secret Life of Bees: No Bees, No Honey,<br \/>\n\tNo Work, No Money.&#8221; Harold Brummett, third-generation<br \/>\n\tbeekeeper; shares how his bees supply his family and<br \/>\n\tfriends with honey and keep his fruits, flowers and<br \/>\n\tvegetables pollinated.\n\t<\/li>\n<li> April 24 &#8211; &#8220;Home Grown with the &#8216;Little Rascals&#8217;: How<br \/>\n\tPlaying in the Dirt Makes Better Kids.&#8221; Hilary Shughart,<br \/>\n\tpresident of the Oxford and Lafayette County chapter of the<br \/>\n\tNative Plant Society, discusses organized gardening for<br \/>\n\tchildren, a project at the Barksdale Boys &#038; Girls Club, as<br \/>\n\twell as the installation of a native garden at the<br \/>\n\tOxford-Lafayette County Public Library and coordination of<br \/>\n\tthe first Mississippi Sustainability Conference at Ole<br \/>\n\tMiss.\n\t<\/li>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<span>For each luncheon program, Master Gardeners plan to provide<br \/>\ntheir own propagated plants and other garden items as door<br \/>\nprizes. Also, several pertinent publications from the<br \/>\nMississippi Cooperative Extension Service will be available<br \/>\nat cost.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>The University Museum is located at 5th Street and<br \/>\nUniversity Avenue. For more information on museum programs,<br \/>\ngo to<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/u?museum\/\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/u?museum\/<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>For assistance related to a disability, call 662-915-7073.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. &#8211; The Master Gardeners of Oxford and Lafayette County launch their annual spring lecture series Thursday (March 27) at the University of Mississippi.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>University Museum to Host Master Gardeners Lecture Series - Ole Miss News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/university-museum-to-host-master-gardeners-lecture-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"University Museum to Host Master Gardeners Lecture Series - Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OXFORD, Miss. &#8211; 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