Gardens for Humanity
5th Annual
Spring Planting Festival
Full Calendar of Events
Presented by
The Verde Thumbs Garden Club
5th Annual
Backyard Garden Expo
All you want to know about starting a garden
Sunday, March 24, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Free Admission
Speakers - Vendors - Demonstrations
Verde Valley Green Thumbs sponsor this forum on Backyard Gardening. Speakers, vendors, and master gardeners share their knowledge about all you want to know about starting a garden.
1:30 pm - The "Scoop" on the Backyard Chicken Coop
Nirmala and Krishna McAfee
2:30 pm - Who Owns Our Food? (Seeds)
Bill McDorman, CEO of Native Search
Bill McDorman on Seeds For Peace and Seed Sharing
3:30 pm - Growing Healthy Tomatoes
Janice Montgomery, founder of The Verde Thumbs Garden Club
Visit our vendors and have lunch at Orion's Flour Garden Cafe
Yum Yum CSA
Master Gardeners
Curandera Healing
Pierre's Prime Beef
Verde River Growers
Pro-Build Garden Center
Windmill Gardens Nursery
Arizona Botanical Gardens
MakePeace - an Urban Farm
Cottonwood Community Garden
Heartstone Farms - Vermiculture
Kids Table: Become a Blooming Backyard Gardener!
Bird Feeders, Face Painting, Planting Seeds & MORE
Runs With Scissors - Tool Sharpening - nominal fee
Bring your clippers, lopers, pruners, hoes, shovels, scissors & kitchen knives.
Information from The Verde Thumbs members:
Seed Starting
Container Gardening
Organic Insect Control
Purchase onions suitable for our area
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