4-H Horticulture Weekend
Youth and their enthusiastic adult leaders are invited to participate in a weekend event featuring exciting explorations of horticulture. Attendees will be able to delve into workshops, discover area gardens, play horticulture games and listen to famous horticultural heroes!

The weekend has special emphasis on the state 4-H Horticulture Contest with workshops that will be focused on the skills and knowledge needed to be successful in the contest. Workshops might include plant identification utilizing plants in the unique collection of the JC Raulston Arboretum. Other workshop topics will be drawn from NJHA Study Manual, like turf topiaries or plant propagation.

Everyone (not just the youth interested in the contest) is invited and encouraged to attend! The weekend is intended for youth ages 8-19 with accompanying adults.

The program will take place on the campus of NC State, primarily in Kilgore Hall (the horticulture bldg), Marye Anne Fox Undergraduate Student Teaching Labs (the greenhouses) and at the JC Raulston Arboretum. Lodging will be at the Fairfield Inn & Suites near Crabtree Mall. All lodging and registration will be done together.

Registration

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Registration is $50 and includes registration fees, lodging on Saturday, April 25th, lunch and dinner on Saturday and a continental breakfast Sunday.

Payment should be remitted by a check made payable to: NC 4-H Development Fund and mailed to:

Liz Driscoll
NC State University
218 Kilgore Hall, Box 7609
Raleigh, NC 27695

Download a printable flyer to pass on to your friends, club members

Workshops
The workshops are still being finalized, but potential topics will include:

• Propagation
• Introductory Plant ID
• Advanced Plant ID
• Judging workshop
• Heirloom tomato grafting
• Plant Nutrition- ie soils lab and setting up plant nutrition experiment
• Turf Topiaries—grow different turfgrasses (turf ID) and make topiary structures covered with grass
• Landscape Design course use design studio to create a project
• Nursery Management
• Youth led?

Questions?

Please contact:

Liz Driscoll
4-H Specialist, Horticulture, Crops & Soils
919.513.7346
liz_driscoll@ncsu.edu

Tentative Agenda

Saturday, April 25th
10:00 am          Registration: Room 159 Kilgore Hall, campus of NC State University

10:30 – 11:00   Introduction and welcome
           
11:00-12:00     Workshop One

12:00-1:00       Lunch

1:00-2:00         Workshop Two

2:15-3:15         Workshop Three

3:15-3:45         Snack Break

3:45-4:45         Workshop Four

4:45-6:00         Check into the hotel

6:30 -8:00        Dinner (location TBA)
                        Keynote Speaker

8:00-11:00       Hort Connections

11:00               Head back to hotel

Sunday, April 26th
9:00 -11:30      Practice Horticulture Contest

1:00-4:00 pm    Optional Field Trip to local gardens