President’s Corner

The Spring Garden Fair is upon us!

Our Annual Jackson County Spring Garden Fair is just around the corner – May 3^rd and 4^th! This year we will be at the Jackson County Expo, in the Mace Building, in Central Point.

The Spring Garden Fair is the JCMGA’s main fundraiser. It enables us to provide so many services throughout the year, such as Community Garden Grants, School Garden Grants, and the Master Gardener Practicum, to name a few.

As usual, our current Practicum class has helped in using research-based, effective techniques to grow our vegetables, ornamentals and native plants to sell at the fair. There will be hundreds of plants of many varieties available for purchase, including:

• 17 varieties of tomatoes
• 2 varieties of tomatillos
• Many varieties of peppers, squash, melons, pumpkins, beans, eggplant, cucumbers
• Green Globe Artichokes
• Great selection of herbs
• Many annual ornamentals – including alyssum, calendula, 4 o-clocks, cosmos, echinacea, gaillardia, marigolds, sunflowers and zinnias
• And many, many native plants

Over 100 volunteers are involved in all aspects of developing and supporting this event.  Thank you to all the volunteers who are taking time to support our Spring Garden Fair.

Hope to see you at the Spring Garden Fair on May 3 or 4!

(I encourage you to read the article in this issue of The Garden Beet about our Practicum. You will be surprised at all that the students and mentors accomplish.)