The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences participated in the Delta Blooms and Bees Home and Garden Show in White Hall on April 5.
This Jefferson County Master Gardeners annual fundraising event benefits area youth and community education programs. The show included a variety of exhibits, workshops, children’s activities, raffles and a plant sale, according to a news release.
Lurie Lee Anderson Jr., UAPB research associate, volunteered his time to lead a hands-on DIY “Make and Take” Worm Composting Jug demonstration.
“The material to make a worm tower is typically made of PVC pipe, which would be long-lasting,” Anderson said. “A compost jug, however, can be made up from any container such as a milk jug or a juice bottle. These items work well and using them removes extra waste from landfills.”
The garden show gave people who have the same passion for gardening and farming a place to network and trade methods of production, he said.
Other presenters included Chris Cooper, University of Tennessee Extension horticulture agent and coordinator for the Extension Master Gardener Program in Shelby County, and Timothy Wallace, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture County Extension agent for horticulture and 4-H in Jefferson County.
The show is sponsored by the Jefferson County Master Gardeners, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Jefferson County and the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Clean and Beautiful Commission.