Lazy Days of Summer event on Fort Hood
June 22, 2019: Lazy Days of Summer event on Fort Hood
BCMGA was invited to provide a booth and participate in the Lazy Days of Summer event on Fort Hood on 22 June, sponsored by ACS (Army Community Service), Doris F. Arnett, ACS Resilience Training Coordinator. There were many other Fort Hood community agencies participating. This event reached over 100 folks, adults and youth at the event and our gardening advice and handouts were very well received. About 120 people (soldiers and their families) came to our tables who recently PCS’d to Fort Hood. Most wanted to know what they could grow here. It was fun talking to families that were new and wanted to know what they could grow. One lady came to our table asking “will anything grow here”. We told her all the different types of vegetables, annuals and perennials and gave her the vegetable planting chart. We gave out a lot of the planting charts. We had kids interested in gardening and we talked about their favorite vegetable, which surprisingly was broccoli. We had all kinds of information available from water conservation, growing vegetables, composting, kid pamphlets and much more. I put these vegetables from my garden in a basket to show people some of the vegetable they can grow. Many thanks to Wayne and JoAnn Zieschang, Ann Wagner and Glenn Melton for participating in this event, each one shared their expertise. All kept very busy talking and interacting with all the families that came through. It was lots of fun! by Gail Pierce
BCMGA Mission Statement
The Bell County Master Gardeners Association assists the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in providing high quality, relevant, research-based horticultural education and service to the residents of Bell County and the state of Texas through outreach, teaching, and demonstration projects.
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