SARE x URI x NOFA RI Pest and Disease Scout & ID Walk at URI
Scout the field and ID pests and diseases in person. A guide to local pest and disease and how to ID will be provided. This is part 2 of our winter workshop but it's not required to go to both!
Where: Skogley Turf Research Center, 30 Thirty Acre Pond Rd, Kingston, RI 02881
Date: Mon Aug 10, 5pm - 7pm. We will meet at the Skogley building classroom at 5pm.
Agenda (Tentative)
1. Introductions
2. Most Common Pest and Integrated Pest Management in the URI Agronomy Vegetable Garden. Pest Walk at the URI Vegetable Garden.
3. Role of pollinators in vegetable production.
4. Questions
Instructors:
• Lisa Tewskbury, Entomologist, Director of the Biocontrol Laboratory
• Keiddy Urrea-Morawicki, Plant Pathologist, Director URI Plant Diagnostic Laboratory