HLA’s Spring Fest tent was a smashing success! We handed out nearly 900 plant necklaces to the excited families who stopped by. Students from PASLA set up various children’s activities at their table. Purdue Extension Master Gardeners volunteers from Tippecanoe County staffed a table, answering questions and challenging attendees with a Plant Problem ID Challenge.[Read More…]
HLA’s tent at Spring Fest was a wild success this year. HLA faculty, staff, graduate students and our HLA Undergraduate Student Ambassadors volunteered to help create plant necklaces for the public. Members of PASLA had an activity table for children. Purdue Extension Master Gardener volunteers from Tippecanoe County helped answer gardening questions and provided demonstrations[Read More…]
On a windy, chilly Saturday HLA’s Spring Fest tent was abuzzed with excited attendees. Children and adults were lined up to get our famous plant necklaces. Our Purdue Extension Master Gardener Volunteers from Tippecanoe County recorded 350 educational contacts and 134 people taking the “Lawn Weed Challenge.” Children of all ages learned about landscape architecture[Read More…]