Gardening Outside the Box
Spring Garden Lectures at the
University of Mississippi Museum
March 27- April 24, 2008, noon

Noon, Thursday, Feb. 21
University Museum, 5th St. and Univ. Ave, Oxford

Curtis Wilkie will be the guest speaker at Thursday's Museum Brown Bag. In association with the Remnant Trust Athenaeum rare book exhibition he will discuss Thomas Paine's Common Sense. He will explore how Paine's words carried such strong moral authority that it helped inspire our founding fathers and he will trace Paine's legacy through 19th century muckrakers to 20th century polemicists to 21st century bloggers. 

Wednesday, March 5 at noon
Felder Rushing, Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Gestalt Gardener, will present "Chillin on Global Warming," gardening for all the senses, all year, without a water hose. He will explore sustainable lifestyles and how easy it is to be "Green."

Sponsored by the East Central Chapter of the Mississippi Native Plant Society and Natural Resources Initiative of North Mississippi.

For More information call:
Hilary Shughart
President, East Central Chapter
Mississippi Native Plant Society
662-816-3459
or 662-915-7073

Thursday, March 27th
Garden Pharmacopoeia: From dirt to tetracycline

• Speaker Nan Johnson
  
• Research horticulturist at Medicinal Plant Garden, National Center for Natural Products Research
• Native plants for pharmacological research and medical use.
  
• Studies of allelopathy in magnolia seeds and a cancer cure.

Thursday, April 3rd
Kinder Gardening: Carrots and beans for boys and girls

• Speaker Chuck Waller, Ph.D..
  
• Operates Walnut Ridge Nursery—herbs, native plants & perennials
  
• Horticulture therapy for children. He teaches school at Horn Lake MS.

Thursday, April 10th
Doing Time in the Garden: Penitentiary potatoes & corn for convicts

• Speaker Leo Mask (former Pontotoc sheriff )
  
• Story of how an enterprising sheriff fed prisoners with fresh vegetables cultivated by themselves for 40 cents a day.

Thursday, April 17th
The Secret Life of Bees: No bees, no honey, no work, no money.

• Speaker Harold Brummett
  
• He has kept bees for 10 years as did his father and grandmother before him.
  
• He has enough bees to supply his family and friends with honey and to keep his fruits, flowers and vegetables pollinated.

Thursday, April 24th
Home Grown with the “Little Rascals”: How playing in the dirt makes better kids

• Speaker Hilary Shugart
  
• President of local chapter of the Native Plant Society.
  
• Organized gardening for the children at the Barksdale Boys & Girls Club
  
• Instrumental in installing a native garden at the Oxford Public Library.
  
• Coordinated first Mississippi Sustainability Conference (for keeping state green) at Ole Miss.

Last Updated: February 6, 2008