[Azyg] [Fwd: Junior Master Gardener Garden Contest]

[Lucy Bradley]

Greetings,

Thought some of you might be interested in this!

Happy New Year!
Lucy

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Subject: 	Junior Master Gardener Garden Contest
Date: 	Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:43:21 -0500
From: 	Liz Driscoll <liz_driscoll at ncsu.edu>
To: 	hort-agents-mg at cals.ncsu.edu <hort-agents-mg at cals.ncsu.edu>



>>NEWS! JMG Garden Contest - Submission Deadline Feb. 1, 2007
Please pass this on to all your JMG Clubs.


While it's cold outside, classrooms in your state can work on plans to
receive prize packages for a FREE spring garden.

Classrooms are invited to design a school garden using red, white, and
blue plant materials. These "America's Anniversary Gardens" celebrate
the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown - America's birthplace as the
first permanent settlement in the United States.

These garden designs can be simple container gardens such
as:http://www.ext.vt.edu/americasgarden/gardendesigns/containergarden.html

or larger landscape garden designs such
as:http://www.ext.vt.edu/americasgarden/gardendesigns/landscapegarden.html


25 prize packages will be awarded and will include:

 - $250 cash award

 - JMG curriculum

 - seed and garden supplies


GRAND PRIZE NEWS! From those winning entries, one grand prize winning
garden will be selected. The grand prize winner will receive free
airfare courtesy AirTran Airways to fly up to 4 people representing the
winning group (tickets valued at $500 each)  to Jamestown, Virginia. In
addition the grand prize winner will receive 2 nights lodging (2 rooms
for 2 nights valued at $150 per room/night) and entrance to local
attractions of Colonial Williamsburg, Historic Yorktown, Jamestown
Sites, Busch Gardens, Water Country, USA (4 unlimited admission passes
valued at $180 each)

Garden plans must be received by Feb. 1, 2007 and should be sent with
the attached application to:
   Junior Master Gardener
   c/0 Weekly Reader Publishing
   200 First Stamford Place
   Stamford, CT 06902

Winners will be notified after March 1, 2007. For more information, go
to: www.jmgkids.us/gardencontest


Let me know if you have any questions,
Cheers, Liz


-- 
Elizabeth Driscoll
4-H Youth Extension Specialist,
Horticulture, Crops and Soil Science
North Carolina State University
218 Kilgore Hall, Box 7609
Raleigh, NC 27695
919.513.7346





-- 
Lucy Bradley, Ph.D.
North Carolina State University
Horticultural Science Department
Extension Specialist, Urban Horticulture
128 Kilgore Hall / Campus Box 7609
Raleigh, NC  27695-7609

919.513.2001 (phone)
919.515.2505 (fax)
Lucy_Bradley at ncsu.edu 

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