AgriLifeExtensionDo you have an interest in vegetable gardening and/or improving your home landscape? Do you know how you are going to manage to keep your yard and trees healthy with restrictions on outdoor watering? If your answer was yes then you might be interested in attending some or all of the Lunch-N-Learn Garden/Home Landscape series which will begin on Thursday April 5, 2012.

The Lunch-N-Learn series is actually four one hour programs. The dates and topics are:

  • April 5 – Edible Gardening, Container Gardening, Vegetable Gardens
  • May 3 – Turf grass / Lawn Care and Problems
  • June 7 – Yard Tree Care
  • September – Pomegranate Trees in the Landscape 

This garden landscape series is sponsored by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the Brown County Master Gardener’s Association. All of the one hour programs will be held at the Brown County Youth Fair Barn located on Hwy 377 South, with the exception of the June 7th program. It will be held at the Brown County Extension Office located at 605 Fisk Avenue in Brownwood. All of these programs will be conducted from 12 noon – 1 p.m. Programs in this Lunch -N-Learn Series are open to anyone interested. There will be a one-time $15 registration fee payable at the door.

The Lunch-N-Learn Series is open to anyone interested without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, handicap, or national origin.  Organizers will seek to provide reasonable accommodations for all persons with disabilities. It is requested that those with disabilities contact the Brown County Extension Office at 325-646-0386 to advise of any auxiliary aid or service required. The speaker for the April 5th program will be Allison Watkins, Extension Horticulturist from San Angelo.

For more information on the Lunch-N-Learn Garden/Landscape Series contact the Brown County Extension Office.