{"id":2537,"date":"2023-02-22T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2023-02-22T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T21:34:54","slug":"friends-of-the-hort-farm-vt-flower-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/friends-of-the-hort-farm-vt-flower-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Friends of the Horticulture Farm at the Vermont Flower Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2543\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2543 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/02\/vt-flower-show.jpg?resize=525%2C275\" alt=\"A hand drawn, colorful map of the grand garden display for the 2023 Vermont Flower Show.\" width=\"525\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/02\/vt-flower-show.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/02\/vt-flower-show.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/02\/vt-flower-show.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portion of the &#8220;Grand Garden&#8221; display planned for the 2023 Vermont Flower Show.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spring comes early to Vermont&#8217;s 100-acre wood on March 3, 4, and 5, for the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/vnlavt.org\/event\/2023-vermont-flower-show\/\">Vermont Flower Show<\/a> at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction. The <a href=\"https:\/\/fhfvt.org\/\">Friends of the Horticulture Farm<\/a> (FHF) will be there, easing out of hibernation with blooming crabapples and forsythia, raffle prizes, and guest curator chats about growing grapes, lilacs and more.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Visit booth #12 at the show to meet with FHF members, and take a virtual tour of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/cals\/hrec\">UVM Horticulture, Research, and Education Center<\/a>. Also, ask them anything about gardening!<\/p>\n<p>Highlights for the FHF booth include three sessions of &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2023\/02\/FHF-curator-chats-web1.pdf\">Curator Chats<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; with presenters including:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 20px\">\n<li>Horticulture Farm Director Dr. Terry Bradshaw.<\/li>\n<li>Lilac Collections Curator Kitty Werner.<\/li>\n<li>Rhododendron and Conifer Collections Curator Paul Wieczoreck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/fhfvt.org\">FHF website<\/a> to learn about and sign up for workshops, events, and hands-on horticulture opportunities. Become a &#8220;Friend&#8221; with the many other gardening and nature enthusiasts who are dedicated to protecting, enhancing and promoting the plant collections and natural areas at the UVM Horticulture Farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring comes early to Vermont&#8217;s 100-acre wood on March 3, 4, and 5, for the 2023 Vermont Flower Show at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction. The Friends of the Horticulture Farm (FHF) will be there, easing out of hibernation with blooming crabapples and forsythia, raffle prizes, and guest curator chats about growing grapes, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/friends-of-the-hort-farm-vt-flower-show\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Join Friends of the Horticulture Farm at the Vermont Flower Show&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,28],"tags":[66,21],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cals","category-events","category-faculty","tag-hort-farm","tag-pss"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1737,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/friends-hort-farm-plant-sale\/","url_meta":{"origin":2537,"position":0},"title":"The Annual Friends of the Horticulture Farm Plant Sale","author":"CALS Communications","date":"July 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday, July 16 marked the annual Friends of the Horticulture Farm (FHF) plant sale at the UVM Horticulture Research and Education Center in South Burlington. 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