Spring Alive 2025

Name: Spring Alive 2025
Start: 2025-04-05T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-05T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Pioneer Bank, 1450 Adams Street, Mankato, MN

Schedule

Sat Apr 05 2025 at 09:00 am to 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Pioneer Bank, 1450 Adams Street, Mankato, MN | Mankato, MN

You are invited to attend our annual free and open to the public community education event! Register online today to save your space! https://z.umn.edu/a4gb
Schedule and Speakers:
9:00 -9:30 – Registration

9:30- 10:30 –“Problems in the Vegetable Garden” Weather, Soil, Water, Disease, and Pests.
Joyce Wilcox; Flower and Vegetable Enthusiast/ Master Gardener for 20 yrs.
10:30- 11:30 – “Growing Fruit Trees and Berries”
Diane Dunham; Retired Horticulture Instructor. Garden Columnist for Mankato Free Press.
11:30-12:30 – “Creating a Pollinator Friendly Landscape”
Julie Weisenhorn; Master’s Degree from U of MN in Horticulture and Visual Communications, Former State Director of Master Gardener Program, Employed at the Landscape Arboretum in teaching, research and outreach.
12:30-1:30 – “Reintroducing Native Plants to our Gardens”
Lucas Youngerberg; Student of Environmental and Political Sciences at MSU, Mankato, member of the 2025 Master Gardener Intern Class, worked at South Central Minnesota Landscapes for 12 years.