Herbal Soap Crafting with Lin Frye
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 6:30pm-9:00 pm
Arboretum Brick Building
$25
Back by popular demand! This ‘hands-on” class will teach you to create beautifully decorated & scented soaps using many of the herbs you have growing! Take home soaps for your own gift giving.
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Gardening 101: Growing your Own Produce—Frye/Daughtry
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Arboretum Mobile Unit
$15
This hands-on class focuses on your spring garden: how to read a seed catalogue (so you KNOW what you’re getting!), how to test and prepare your beds, selecting spring vegetables and herbs, bed preparation, vegetable care and maintenance. Participants will leave with soil test kits, garden plans, and seed starts for a successful vegetable garden.
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Tool Up for Spring! County Extension Agent Shawn Banks
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Arboretum Mobile Unit
$10
This hands-on class focuses on readying your gardening tools for easy use! Maintenance, upkeep, and small repairs will all be covered!
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Arboretum Tour & Lecture: “Living Legends: Plants of the Southern Garden” with Perry Mathewes
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 5:30 pm -8:00 pm
Arboretum Mobile Unit
$15
In conjunction with the Southern Garden being created at The Arboretum, this new annual event will focus on Southern traditions, culture, trends & heritage. To start off this new program feature, we’ll tour the Arboretum with a special emphasis on the Southern Garden. After a break for refreshments, Perry Mathewes, Norfolk Botanical Gardens, will give an exciting lecture on “Living Legends: Plants of the Southern Garden”. The Prelude (2009) introduced cultural concepts for the Southern Garden design. Mr. Matthews will feature the PLANTS of those gardens.
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Lecture: “The Folk Potters of NC” with Dr. Terry Zug, III
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 6:00pm-8:00 pm
Arboretum Mobile Unit
$10
As professor of English in the College of Arts & Sciences & chairman of the curriculum in folklore, Professor Zug has studied North Carolina's rich heritage of architecture & folk art for twenty-five years. He is best known for his book, Turners & Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina, which explores one of the state's most important indigenous art forms. This lecture will prepare us for our field trip to Seagrove Pottery.
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Tour: Seagrove Pottery, Asheboro
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Arboretum Mobile Unit / Asheboro
$25.00
We’ll begin the day with a self-guided tour of the museum followed by a pottery-making demonstration. We’ll then take several hours to visit the many potters at Seagrove. Lunch on own at area restaurant.
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Tour, Lecture, Workshop: North Carolina Tobacco Farm Life Museum
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Arboretum Mobile Unit / Kenly, NC
$35.00
Tour, Lecture, Workshop: North Carolina Tobacco Farm Life Museum
Participants will van to the Tobacco Farm Life Museum, Kenly, for a lecture on the history of tobacco in North Carolina, a visit to a local tobacco farm & a workshop on candle-making & butter churning. Candles & butter to go home with participants. A special lunch will be catered.
Fee for all Southern Symposium Events: $70 = $15 Savings!
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“PLANT SALE-A-BRATION” /CELEBRATE THE EARTH
Saturday, April 17, 2010 - 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Arboretum Greenhouses
FREE
HERBS, ANNUALS, VEGETABLES & MORE! Come early to get your favorite spring & summer plants. Enjoy a chair massage, art, photography and pottery! Howell Woods E.E. Center will exhibit native plants & animals! Enjoy special music & watch “plein air” artists create works of art! JCC Arboretum & the Johnston County Art Council will host a “Celebrate the Earth” with events for all ages.
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Tour Airlie Gardens – Wilmington
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Arboretum Mobile Unit /Wilmington
$25
Join the Arboretum as we van to Wilmington, NC to see the spring peak-bloom time at one of North Carolina’s premiere gardens! We’ll see formal gardens, wildlife, historic structures, azaleas, camellias & other floral displays! Our garden trips have been very popular, so be sure to pre-register! Lunch on own.
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The panelists from the 2008 Green Industry Panel came from a wide range of industries and businesses. For this session, each panelist was asked to address the following:
Each panelist addressed these questions in his or her particular way and answered questions from the audience.
Because we found this information so valuable, we are making DVD copies of the proceedings available for $5. These can be ordered from our website or by sending an email to: Lin Frye, Director, Arboretum and LSG Program, Johnston Community College, PO Box 2350, Smithfield, NC 27577, or by calling Lin Frye (919) 209-2052, or by sending an email to: lafrye@johnstoncc.edu.
We have summarized salient points to these questions. We hope you find them as helpful and informative as we have.
We also extend a huge THANK YOU to the panelists for taking the time to share their vision and experience with us!
