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A Grand Opening 



UNH Cooperative Extension is ex- 

 cited to announce the fall opening 

 of its Family, Home and Garden 

 Education Center in downtown 

 Manchester! Scheduled to open in 

 November, 1999, in a newly reno- 

 vated space at UNH Manchester on 

 Commercial Street, the center will 

 have a statewide toll-free info line 

 with which to respond to a wide 

 variety of questions related to 

 homes and gardens. 



Staffed by volunteers receiving 100 

 hours of training, the center expects 

 to receive over 20,000 calls a year on 

 everything from apples to bug 

 zappers. At volunteer fingertips will 

 be information on fruits and veg- 

 etables; trees, shrubs and turf; annu- 

 als and perennials; insect and disease 

 problems; IPM; food safety and food 

 preservation; and backyard livestock 

 and wildlife problems. The info line 

 will be available from 9am to 2pm 

 year-round. 



So it you, your customers, or your 

 employees need practical solutions to 

 the everyday challenges of growing 

 plants and animals in New England, 

 watch for our new number, coming 



A Reminder . . . 



Grant applications are now available 

 from the horticultural endowment es- 

 tablished by the New Hampshire 

 Plant Growers' Association. Grant 

 monies totaling $2,500 will be 

 awarded for 1999. Ail horticulturists 

 and researchers are invited to submit 

 proposals that would benefit the or- 

 namental horticulture industry in 

 New Hampshire and elsewhere. (See 

 the June/July issue of The Plantsman 

 for a more detailed description.) 



The deadline for proposal appli- 

 cations is October 1, 1999. Inter- 

 ested individuals can obtain the 

 endowment's application form by 

 writing the New Hampshire Plant 

 Growers' Association, Horticultural 



Endowment, 7316 Pleasant Street, 

 Loudon, NH 03301. 



A Thank You 



Ann Hilton 



The twilight meeting and garden cen- 

 ter evaluation workshop held at Spi- 

 der Web Gardens in Center Tufton- 

 boro on June 24 was a great success. 

 Over 80 people attended. Many at- 

 tended the workshop organized by 

 Dave Seavey, UNH Cooperative Ex- 

 tension. These people received a Gar- 

 den Center Critique Workbook and the 

 knowledge of how to use it to im- 

 prove their own businesses. Bill Stock- 

 man, owner of Spider Web, gave an 

 extensive tour of his operation. This 

 was followed by a cookout put on by 

 the Plant Growers. 



A big thank you goes out to Bill 

 for opening up his business to us, to 

 his crew for all their work in prepar- 

 ing for the event, and to David and 

 his fellow Extension agents who as- 

 sisted in the workshop. 





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