Dallas Organic Garden Club Meeting: Biocontrol, Beneficials, and Bankers

RESCHEDULED FROM AUGUST 2024.

The Greater Dallas Organic Garden Club invites you to attend our meeting on Sunday, when our speaker will be Dallas County Extension Agent for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Matt Orwat. Matt will be giving us a presentation covering biocontrol with pesticides as well as beneficial insects and the use of banker plants.

Our regular meeting starts at 2:30 and our program begins at 3:00pm. Please join us! Our meetings are always free and open to the public. Bring a friend! To join and take advantage of our member only activities go The Greater Dallas Organic Gardening Club meets Jan-Sep in our Classroom. For more information, see

NOTE: THIS EVENT IS INDOORS IN OUR CLASSROOM.

Matthew Orwat is from Fort Worth, and earned his bachelor’s at the University of Texas at Arlington and his master’s in horticulture at Texas A&M. He worked with the rose breeding and genetics program and was a teaching assistant. He completed an internship with AgriLife Extension in Tarrant and Denton counties before starting his career as an Extension agent with the University of Florida IFAS Extension in Washington County. Growing fruit trees and vegetables with his father and helping his grandfather in his orchard and pecan grove helped him develop a love for growing vegetables, fruits and roses. Orwat said there are many untapped niche markets for small farms in urban areas, and he aims to help enterprising agricultural entrepreneurs find those and develop sustainable urban crop production through the outreach of AgriLife Extension.

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