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PCC Desert Vista Campus Celebrates Campus Garden for Earth Day

April 25, 2012

Tucson, AZ – Pima Community College’s Desert Vista Campus is having a belated Earth Day celebration on Thursday, April 26, 2012, with special events at its Community Garden.

The event, 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., will be at the campus Community Garden, east of the Plaza Building at Desert Vista Campus, 5901 S. Calle Santa Cruz. Students and instructors in the Culinary Arts degree program and the Center for Training and Development’s Culinary and Food Industry Training programs will do demonstrations and offer samples. In addition, presentations on xeriscaping and water harvesting will be given.

 Remarks and presentations, not in this order, will be given by:

  • Gene Zonge, Community Gardens of Tucson
  • MarciBeth Phillips, Arbico Organics
  • Barbara Rose, Bean Tree Farm: “Sustainability in the Desert”
  • Nick Henry, Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
  • Barbara Jo McLaughlin and Carolyn Fike, PCC instructors: Green Thumbs Student Club (of Desert Vista Campus)
  • Tami Hamstra and JodyLee Duek, PCC instructors: “Biology Garden Plots” in the Community Garden
  • Elizabeth Mikesell, PCC CTD Culinary instructor, and Gene Zonge of Community Gardens of Tucson: “Culinary Garden Plots” in the Community Garden
  • Lisa Shipek: “Watershed Management”
  • What: PCC Desert Vista Campus Earth Day celebration
  • Where: Community Garden, PCC Desert Vista Campus, 5901 S. Calle Santa Cruz
  • When: 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Thursday, April 26, 2012
  • Cost: Free
  • Info: 206-5001

Earth Day 2012 was April 22.

CONTACT:
C.J. Karamargin
Vice Chancellor for Public Information and Government Relations
(520) 206-4850
ckaramargin@pima.edu