PLEASE NOTE - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO AN ONLINE FORMAT DUE TO COVID-19 CONCERNS. USU will provide connection links via email for each session prior to April 18.

Calling all backyard gardeners, urban homesteaders, and hobby farmers! Do you want to step up your sustainability game? Interested in moving beyond tomatoes and peppers in your garden? Come to the Urban Homestead Expo at Conservation Garden Park to learn from our experts.

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY and be sure to register for only ONE BREAKOUT SESSION PER PERSON PER TIMESLOT.

10am - 11am: (Choose only one)
Breakout 1 -Growing Herbs and Cooking with them too!
Breakout 2 - Seed Starting Strategies
Breakout 3 - Organic Gardening
Breakout 4 - Raising Livestock - Goats/Sheep/Pigs
Breakout 5 - Localscapes - Water Efficient Practices

11am - 12pm: (Choose only one)
Breakout 1 - Getting Started with Home Canning
Breakout 2 - Proper Pruning Practices
Breakout 3 - Backyard Composting
Breakout 4 - Getting Kids Involved in Raising Livestock
Breakout 5 - Edible Landscape Plants

12pm: Lunch Break

12:30pm - 1:30pm: (Choose only one)
Breakout 1 - Secrets to Succesful Soil
Breakout 2 - Weed Management
Breakout 3 - Thinking of getting Bees?
Breakout 4 - Raising Smallstock - Rabbits/Ducks/Quail
Breakout 5 - Best Perennials for Utah

1:30pm - 2:30pm: (Choose only one)
Breakout 1 - Selling your Products/Home Foods Act
Breakout 2 - Early and Late Season Gardening
Breakout 3 - Recent Veggie Pests and Diseases (and why you should care!)
Breakout 4 - Backyard Chickens
Breakout 5 - Pollinators and Attracting Wildlife

If you have questions, call Andrea at 385-468-4825.