Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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THE HOOP HOUSE
"an affordable greenhouse"
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 AND SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21
A SFBG CONFERENCE

CO-SPONSORS
NMSU Cooperative Extension Service, SF County Extension Office
Native Plant Society of New Mexico - Santa Fe Chapter
Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute
Santa Fe Master Gardener Association

Hoop House Conference1.gif CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, October 20
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Hoop House Construction Workshop at SF Fairgrounds on Rodeo Road
Build a Hoop House - Del Jimenez, Agricultural Specialist, Cooperative 
Extension Service, NMSU
7:00 to 8:30 pm
Santa Fe Community College, Room 221 (6401 Richards Ave., SF)
Talk followed by book signing and refreshments
Shane Smith, Executive Director, Cheyenne Botanic Gardens. Author of 
Greenhouse Gardener's Companion - Ruthless Gardening
Saturday, October 21
8:00 am to 1:00 pm
Santa Fe Community College, Room 221 (6401 Richards Ave., SF)
8:00 Breakfast-
8:30 Welcome and Introduction - Le Adams, Farm to Table
"Conference themes: Season Extensions, Food Security, Affordability, 
Inclusion"
8:35
"Choosing What Grows Best and How to Maintain a Hoop House"
Del Jimenez, Agricultural Specialist, Cooperative Extension Service, NMSU
9:00 to 11:00
EXTENDING THE SEASON

"Growing Plants Year-Round Heals Body, Mind & Spirit" - Shane Smith
"Food and Heat-Producing Solar Greenhouses" - Susan Yanda, Solar 
Greenhouse Pioneer
"Off-Season Growing: Row Covers, Cold Frames, Cloches" - Bob Pedersen, 
Terra Lucero Executive Director
"Plant Diseases, Pest Identification and Control" - Pat Torres, Santa Fe 
County Extension Agent/Program Director

11:00 to 11:15 - BREAK

11:15 am to 1:00 pm
SEASON EXTENDERS - MULTIPLE USES

"Ideal Ornamental Species" - Michael Clark, Tropic of Capricorn
"Sources for Supplies and Materials" - Bob Pennington, Agua Fria Nursery
"Native American Archaeological Stone Mulch Gardens and 3rd Graders" 
-Mollie Toll, Ethnobotanist, Museum of New Mexico"
"Taos Native Plant Society's Hoop House" - speaker TBA
"New Mexico Endangered Plant Program" - Bob Sivinski, New Mexico Forestry 
Division
"Raising Herbs" - Charles Martin, Agricultural Specialist, Cooperative 
Extension Service, NMSU"
"Using the SFBG Hoop House - Conference Conclusion" - Mark Wood, SFBG 
President, Bob Pennington

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SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN
HOOP HOUSE CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 20 AND 21, 2006
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$30 current SFBG member
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Charles A. Martin

NMSU Sustainable Agriculture Science Center
P.O. Box 159
Alcalde, NM 87511

505-852-4241
Fax: 505-852-2857

email: cmartin@nmsu.edu