Iowa State University Research and Demonstration Farms (ISU Armstrong Research Farm) along with the Wallace Foundation for Rural Research and Development would like to invite you to attend our annual Demonstration Garden Field Day at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 24, 2018. If you are a beginning gardener or an experienced gardener, we have demonstrations you will enjoy.
This year’s garden planting theme is planting the rainbow. Vegetables produced will be donated to local food pantries.
Other topics to be presented include planting flowers for bees, including Tithonian, part of the sunflower family and borage. Iowa State entomologists will participate in the field days to share information about planting nectar plants and host plants for bees and other pollinators.
After your trip through the gardens, join us in our air conditioned classrooms for a tradition of ice cream and strawberries. The facilities are handicap accessible.
The Armstrong Research Farm is located 12 miles southwest of Atlantic on Highway 6, half a mile south on 525th Street, and a half mile east on Hitchcock Avenue, or 13 miles east of Oakland on Highway 6, half a mile south on 525th Street, and half a mile east on Hitchcock Avenue. The field day is open to the public at no cost.
Please plan on attending this event at the Learning Center.