Yes, there are several garden clubs, I believe. Call the Extension Office at 902-1709 and you should be able to get some information. The group that works on the Ag Center gardens is the Pitt Co Master Gardener Volunteers. The Ag office is the Cooperative Extension Office on Government Circle off Old Creek Road. If I might shamelessly plug the Pitt Country Arboretum :).....there are guided walking tours on the first Thursday of every month at 10:00 a.m. (except June to Aug at 9:00 a.m. when it's cooler). There will be an Open House on Sunday, May 17 from 2:00 - 5:00. Pam

Hi Robin! Cami here! Remember me!? I'm still hanging around here and there. I want you to know that the Autumn clematis you traded with me, is one of my all time favorites!!! AND, I'm still trying to pick a bit on my guitar! Can you believe it?! I hate that time has gotten away from me, and I haven't re-connected with you for so long! I think of you often as I walk under the arbor the clematis is on! :) Hey Barbara! I live in Kernersville too! I'm not quite the gardener Robin is, but I do try to grow a few things here and there. Would love to meet you one day! Cami

If you have a compost pile the soldier fly larvae and pupae are one of the highest natural sources of calcium that chickens love to eat. The pupae look like dark trilobites or some sort of prehistoric life form. They are usually in the dirt away from anything fresh and new in the pile. You can freeze them and feed them all winter. My chickens always loved left over human food - preferring a cooked squash over a fresh one, so I would cook up odd casseroles of veggies and cereal and plop it on the ground for them to demolish.

Shame ya don't live in Spartanburg. The Spartanburg Men's Garden Club is ALWAYS actively seeking new members (and is about half women). In fact, we just had a vote in June to change the name to something more inclusive, but our constitution requires a 2/3 majority of those in attendance, and we didn't QUITE make it (came close, though -- I was one of those leading the charge). The club's been around 60 years, though, and was all-male until about 15 years ago, and a lot of the old-timers (and many of their wives, who are now members) are just old-school. HOWEVER, our current president is the first female president, and many of the board members are women, and MANY of our most active members in our projects are female. At present, I don't think the club could do all it does without our many active female members. We're a very active club, sponsoring tree-planting projects around the county (and doing prunings and fertilizings for the same), sponsoring scholarships, all kinds of projects. Jeff