All-America Selections, National Garden Bureau and the Home Garden Seed Association Host a Successful and Educational 2022 Summer Summit

Des Moines and Ames, Iowa was the place for the 2022 Summertime Summit, one particular that quite a few attendees cited as “the very best ever” for the quantity of informational functions that in shape into just two days.

On Wednesday, August 3, 2022 the team realized about and observed:

• An update from all three corporations, launched by a video from the Lee College or university Horticulture Program that outlined how AAS and NGB has helped and supported their horticulture lessons for their inmates.
• The Robert D. Ray Asian Yard Wander
• The Larger Des Moines Botanical Yard where by many AAS Winners had been planted together the walled Koehn Backyard.
• The Justice League of Food and The Hall, where deprived youth are taught hospitality job competencies and well prepared lunch for the team.
• The house of the Earth Foodstuff Prize, a platinum LEED Licensed creating that is also on the National Sign-up of Historic Buildings and serves as the headquarters for the worldwide Environment Foodstuff Prize Award, the brainchild of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Regular Borlaug.
• A bus tour of the Iowa Condition Fairgrounds led by fairgrounds’ CEO Gary Slater, the  Discovery Backyard garden (an AAS Exhibit Yard at the fairgrounds, planted and tended by the Polk State Master Gardeners) and the popular Butter Cow.
• The Greater Residences & Gardens Exam Garden®, on the Dotdash Meredith Corporation campus.
• The Pappajohn Sculpture Backyard garden

That day wrapped up with the AAS Judge’s Conference then Supper With Friends at regional eating places in downtown and East Des Moines providing the attendees more camaraderie and networking alternatives.

Thursday, August 4 was spent in Ames, Iowa, property of Iowa Condition College which hosted the adhering to excursions:

• The ISU Seed Lab, the place lots of of the seeds purchased and bought by the group, are examined for a huge selection of diseases and pathogens to assure protected seeds for the business.
• The private home backyard garden of Ed Lyons, the Director of Reiman Gardens.
• The HGSA Trials at Roots2Rise, a CSA grower just north of Ames.
• A tour of Roots2Increase and presentation by the owner.
• Lunch and a tour at the Brewery.
• A tour and presentation of the ISU Cyclone Stadium in which attendees have been permitted on the area to look at the turfgrass utilised there.
• The AAS Trials at Reiman Gardens.
• The Lewis & Artwork Exhibition at Reiman Gardens.
• A are living Purchaser Concentration Group by NGB exactly where inquiries centered all-around the whys and why-nots customers have when shopping for back garden plants.
• The annual Awards Banquet the place the Breeder’s Cup and Lifetime Achievement Awards ended up specified by AAS and HGSA. [editor: please see additional attachments from this same email for those two award announcements.]

At the close of the Awards Banquet, Aaron Saks from West Coast Seeds invited absolutely everyone to mark their calendars for the Summer months Summit 2023 in Vancouver, B.C. That celebration will be September 5-8, 2023.

For a lot more information and facts, please make contact with Diane Blazek at 630-963-0770

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