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2024 PUMPKIN GROWING WORKSHOP

Join us for a Pumpkin Growing Workshop to learn to grow prize giant pumpkin to display during the Virginia Cooperative Extension Vegetable and Row Crops competition at the Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair on Saturday, October 5th 2024!

Choose from either session available for both adults and youth (we will have concurrent sessions for each group both days) at the Barrier Islands Center in Machipongo, VA:

- Thursday, May 30th 2024 at 5pm

- Saturday, June 1st 2024 at 10am

This workshop is free and open to all. No registration is required. Each participant will be given a free packet of Giant Atlantic Pumpkin seed. 

SAVE THE DATE!

Contact Helene Doughty, ANR extension agent, for additional information at hdoughty@vt.edu or 757-999-0780. 

For Accomack pumpkin workshop locations, contact Theresa Pittman, ANR extension agent at tpittman@vt.edu or 757-787-1361.