Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition Learn practical skills from some of the events we attended across the country in 2024. Sample some of our favorite talks to improve your garden, food forest, home, and local community.
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Speakers K-State Extension Master Gardeners
K-State Extension Master Gardeners Kansas State University
Erin Hamilton
Erin Hamilton The Mushroom Conservatory
Curt Cable
Curt Cable Hollow Handcrafts
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Videos

Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition
1. Integrated Pest Management Primer
Protect your garden plants and vegetable yields from pests without having an adverse affect on the environment. Master Gardener Kevin Siek shares different strategies for mitigating pests in a way that poses the least possible hazard to people, property, and environment. Need help differentiating between good bugs and bad bugs in your garden? Arm yourself with this talk on insect identification.
K-State Extension Master Gardeners
K-State Extension Master Gardeners Kansas State University
Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition•Growing Mushrooms from Home
3. Troubleshoot Your Mushroom Growing Q&A
Do you need a grow tent to grow mushrooms? Will growing mushrooms indoors mess up your other indoor ferments? Follow along with this Q&A about mushroom growing with mushroom expert Erin Hamilton of The Mushroom Conservatory.
Erin Hamilton
Erin Hamilton The Mushroom Conservatory
Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition
4. Old-Fashioned Broom Making
Plastic fiber broom falling apart? Take up the time-honored handicraft of broom making. Learn from a longtime Appalachian craftsman how to make a broom from broom corn, a piece of wood, and some string.
Curt Cable
Curt Cable Hollow Handcrafts
Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition
5. Growing, Marketing, and Cooking Pawpaws
Can you grow pawpaws as a market crop? Can pawpaws be toxic? Learn how to grow and cook pawpaws in your backyard or on your farm from Chris Chmiel's talk at the Pawpaw Festival 2024.
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Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition
6. Garden Bugs: Pests vs Beneficial Insects
Can you tell the good bugs from the bad? And once you've identified the garden pests, how do you eliminate them without harming the beneficial insects that make your garden their home? Equip yourself with the knowledge you need to enact a successful integrated pest management plan by learning how to identify insects in your garden. Now that you can identify garden insects, follow up by creating an integrated pest management plan.
K-State Extension Master Gardeners
K-State Extension Master Gardeners Kansas State University