2025 Siouxland Garden Symposium

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Siouxland Garden Symposium Set for March 22 SIOUX CITY, Iowa -The Siouxland Garden Symposium will take place on March 22, 2025, at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Sioux City. This year's symposium will feature a lineup of expert speakers covering a diverse range of topics of interest to the gardening community. The event will kick off with check-in and refreshments at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 3:30 p.m. The meal will be catered by Aggie’s of Sergeant Bluff.

Meg McAndrews Cowden is a nationally renowned gardening speaker, author, and the creator behind @seedtofork. With a formal background in natural resource management, her current wheelhouse includes being a stay-at-home mother, writer, photographer, and full-time resident gardener. She shares her passion for succession planting in her book, Plant Grow Harvest Repeat (Timber Press, 2022), on social media @seedtofork, and through her gardening subscription, The Modern Garden Guild. With over 25 years of growing experience, Meg has grown right alongside her gardens, exploring the connection between landscapes and food gardens ever since settling in Minnesota in 2003. Meg relishes the challenge of gardening in a cold climate. For Meg, the greatest yields are how a garden bountifully showers the attentive observer with life lessons—and the lessons are both profound and innumerable.

Ian Peterson is a Horticulture Educator for University of Nebraska Extension. His two main passions in work are local food systems / home gardening and native prairie ecology. His goals are to get more people growing food in their communities and increase the area of native pollinator habitat backyard by backyard.

Amanda Beck, a grower from Natural Beauty, will introduce the broad topic of chemical and pesticide use in home gardens and landscapes including herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides.

Shawn Tabke, Union County Extension Weed and Pest, Fair Manager, and Extension Agent for Union County South Dakota Extension, has extensive expertise in horticulture and agricultural extension services. With years of greenhouse management experience, he will speak on optimizing backyard greenhouses for year-round gardening.

The Siouxland Garden Symposium is designed to be an enriching experience for garden enthusiasts of all levels. It is an opportunity to gain experience from industry experts, exchange ideas with fellow gardeners, and kickstart your gardening journey in 2025.

This event is being brought to you by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, South Dakota State University Extension, University of Nebraska Extension, RBC Wealth Management, and Loess Hills Wild Ones. For more information and to register for the Siouxland Garden Symposium, please visit www.siouxlandgardenshow.org. Registration is $50.00 and closes on March 8, 2025.