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Insects: The Good the Bad and the Ugly

  • Sat, February 01, 2014
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Tempe Transportation Center - Side B, Don Cassano Community Room

Registration

  • Admission for two people
  • Adult supervision is required

Registration is closed

Instructor: Carol Stuttard 

If you thought all insects were pests – to be destroyed at any cost – then this is the class for you. Uncover the mysteries of the “bugs’ in your garden. Learn how to encourage beneficial insects and take care of the “unwelcome” ones in an environmentally safe and organic way.

Gardener Carol Stuttard will share just how important insects are in the garden and why we should encourage them by careful planting.


In this class, you will 

-learn simple organic pest control methods for your garden

-what types of beneficial insects live in the low desert

-how to attract pollinators.


Register for this class using this page.

Fee is $15 or Attend with a Friend: 2 for $25. We encourage you to pay via this site but we also accept cash or checks at the door. (Make checks out to  Valley Permaculture Alliance). 

 

About the Instructor:
Carol Stuttard is a Master Gardener, Certified Desert Landscape Designer and Adjunct Professor at Mesa Community College, where she teaches Organic Gardening. She was President of Scottsdale Community Garden Club from 2011 – 2012, where she still gardens on a 40’ x 30’ plot. Carol's garden is a nationally recognized low water use landscape and she is  a huge advocate of using drought tolerant, desert adapted plants in the landscape.


Coming from Great Britain, Carol was forced to master an environment very different from the one she knew so she is more than up to the task of teaching anyone how to garden well in this climate.

About the location:

The Tempe Transportation Center is located at 200 E. Fifth Street (big glass building on the north side of street across from Forest Ave) at the base of A-Mountain near ASU, right at the 5th and Stadium stop for the light trail. Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Q71Oi 

The class will be on the second floor in the Don Cassano Community Room. Take the elevator to the second floor and the room is right there. 


Parking is available directly across 5th Street in a covered garage. It's free after 6pm! Or be green and take the light rail. 

Not only is this event conveniently located right next to the Stadium stop  of the light rail, it's convenient to the many shops and restaurants in downtown Tempe. Arrive early or stay late and enjoy what the area has to offer.

This building is also conveniently located near ASU. Did you know the entire Tempe campus is an arboretum? Click here for maps and more info: 
https://cfo.asu.edu/fdm-arboretum to turn the whole day into a green exploration!


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