Events and Activities : Winter Gardening Fair Scheduled

Kirkwood Community College, the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, and Linn County Master Gardeners have teamed up to offer a daylong, gardening education event. The Winter Gardening Fair is scheduled for Saturday, February 15, covering topics from common landscaping mistakes and managing wildlife to raised beds and ornamental grasses.

Anyone interested in gardening is welcome to attend. Participants can attend five classes from the more than 45 workshops offered. Tuition is $49 and includes a box lunch. All classes take place on Kirkwood’s main campus in Cedar Rapids.

For more information about the Winter Gardening Fair call 800-332-8833 or visit www.kirkwood.edu/ce, search Winter Gardening Fair.

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What: Winter Gardening Fair

Date: Saturday, February 15

Times: Track A: 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Track B: 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Cost: $49

Lunch provided.

With the most credit programs of any community college in Iowa, Kirkwood Community College boasts more than 25,000 annual college-credit students, while maintaining one of the lowest tuitions in the state. All students are eligible for federal financial aid and the college offers $2.4 million in scholarships each year to students from all walks of life. Kirkwood is a convenient, innovative and visionary educational leader that strives to remain affordable and accessible.