The Garden View, July 2016

"The hum of bees is the voice of the garden."

Elizabeth Lawrence

USUBC Farmers Market

Thursdays, through September 22

5 - 8 p.m.

Come find great local produce, gourmet food, artisans, entertainment and children's activities. SNAP benefits are accepted.

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Summer Camps at USUBC

Aggie Adventure Camps at USU Botanical Center are in full swing. There's still time to give your kids a great day camp experience this summer, with topics ranging from dinosaurs to super heroes.

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Wonderful Wildflowers of the Wasatch

July is the best time to experience a profusion of wildflowers in Utah mountains. Check out

Wildflowers of the Mountain West as a resource book about wildflowers. Order an electronic or hard copy online.

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Healthy Bees

With the interest in beekeeping and the sellout of recent workshops, USU Extension has added two new classes this summer including:

Managing Hives for Honeybee Health -

July 28, 6 p.m., USUBC

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Honey Harvesting and Preparing for Winter -

August 25, 6 p.m., USUBC

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Rules for Wildflower Hiking

1. Do not pick the wildflowers. Enjoy them and leave them for someone else to enjoy. They are perishable and have a very short "indoor" life; also, with many of them, roots as well as seeds are killed when the flowers are picked.

2. Do not try to transplant them into your garden. They do not tolerate root disturbance. Your chances of success in raising them domestically are far greater if you begin with seed. Even so, many of them need soil, temperature and other conditions not available outside of their immediate environment.

3. Be respectful of them in their natural environment. Do not injure them with fire, tramping or other thoughtless acts.