Service Learning and Community Engagement with the North Carolina Association of Physician Assistants (NCAPA) Veteran’s Memorial Garden: Impacts of the HS 401 Landscape Design
There are many ways design faculty implement community engagement. There is little evaluation about the different ways these efforts may impact student learning or the community satisfaction. Continue reading
Dr. Jeanine M. Davis was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science. This is the 53rd Annual Class of Fellows to receive this distinction in recognition of outstanding contributions to the science, profession, or industry of horticulture. Continue reading
We are pleased to welcome five new and one continuing area specialized agents to our horticulture Extension team. You may be wondering…. What is an Area Specialized Agent? From the job description: “the area specialized agents (ASAs) will be responsible for planning, developing, executing, and evaluating and reporting the impacts of high-quality research-based extension programs in a specific content area over a designated multi-county area.” What makes the ASA positions different from other Extension field faculty is two-fold. First, the ASAs will focus on commercial production of either fruit and vegetable production or ornamental crop (nursery and greenhouse) production. Secondly, the ASAs will have multi-county responsibilities. We are thrilled to have these new team members with which to collaborate on outreach educational programs. Continue reading
Blooming this week in the shadow of an abstract bronze sculpture at the North Carolina Museum of Art is an undulating five-pointed star of golden daffodils, twinkling with purple alliums.
The garden, designed by NC State University’s Julieta Trevino Sherk, came together Monday April 4 as students in her construction landscape design class worked alongside volunteers and professionals from Myatt Landscape Concepts. Together, they planted 2,000 daffodils, 400 alliums – or ornamental onions – along with sod and hostas in the bed that surrounds Henry Moore’s ‘Spindle Piece’ sculpture between the museum’s old and new buildings. Continue reading
