Welcome to our 2020 Virtual Twilight Garden Tour. While the event is online, you can still visit the garden in person. UW Staff and Master Gardener Volunteers have continued to maintain the garden. The video links shown below give you a taste of what you will find in the garden. For more information on the Teaching and Display, go to the Spooner Agricultural Research Station Facebook page or the Teaching & Display Garden page on this website.
Scroll down the page to find the YouTube links to a specific video or you can go to the entire playlist.
Please provide feedback on this year's Twilight Garden Tour.
Please provide feedback on this year's Twilight Garden Tour.
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Welcome video to the 2020 Twilight Garden Tour
Kevin Schoessow, Area Agricultural Development Agent; Phil Holman, UW-Madison Spooner Ag Research Station Superintendent; and Roseann Meixelsperger, North Country Master Gardener Volunteers Association President welcome you to the Teaching & Display Garden and our first ever Virtual Twilight Garden Tour.
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Handouts/Resources
www.midwesthazelnuts.org/
Participatory Beet Breeding Outreach Model
Seed to Kitchen Collaborative Website
Introduction to UW Madison's New Beet Varieties (Video)
www.midwesthazelnuts.org/
Participatory Beet Breeding Outreach Model
Seed to Kitchen Collaborative Website
Introduction to UW Madison's New Beet Varieties (Video)
Seed to Kitchen Collaborative
Sam Cline, Seed to Kitchen Research Technician, takes you through the research being conducted at the UW-Madison Spooner Agricultural Research Station Seed to Kitchen Trials.
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Foodwise
Bridget Rongner, Kim Clark and Julie Yezek, UW-Madison Division of Extension Nutrition Educators, give an introduction to the FoodWise program and give us some ideas on integrating vegetables in our diet with some fun vegetables using produce from the Teaching & Display Garden.
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Video Tours of the Gardens
Vegetable Plots
Lily Koss, Summer Garden Manager, takes you through the vegetable area of the Spooner Agricultural Research Station Teaching & Display Garden
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Monarch & Pollinator Sanctuary
Master Gardener Volunteer Janet Mangold describes the perennial garden full of native plants for pollinators.
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Pinwheel 1
Master Gardener Volunteer Laird Niewinski explains his plot in pinwheel 1 of the Teaching & Display Garden. This flower garden is laid out in the shape of a kite.
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Pinwheel 2
Master Gardener Volunteer Sandy Niewinski explains her plot in pinwheel 2 of the Teaching & Display Garden. This vegetable garden has a Farmers' Market theme
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Pinwheel 3
Master Gardener Volunteer Susan Richter explains her plot in pinwheel 3 of the Teaching & Display Garden. Susan's garden features a flowers and vegetables with a pine straw walkway.
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Pinwheel 4
Master Gardener Volunteer Pam Davies explains her plot in pinwheel 4 of the Teaching & Display Garden. This garden is designed with the All-America Selections theme of "Make an Entrance" and features many interesting details.
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Pinwheel 5
Master Gardener Volunteer Jessie Crane explains her plot in pinwheel 5 of the Teaching & Display Garden. This is an Asian themed garden with both flowers and vegetables.
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Pinwheel 6 & 7
Master Gardener Volunteers Donald Stanislawski and Vince Cosomano explain their plots in pinwheel 6 and 7 of the Teaching & Display Garden. These plots are a blend of flowers and vegetables with heavily worked soil
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Pinwheel 8
Master Gardener Volunteer Marilyn Kaman explains her plot in pinwheel 8 of the Teaching & Display Garden. It features a mix of flowers and vegetables with a raised edge to retain moisture.
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Children's Garden
Master Gardener Volunteer and Association President Roseann Meixelsperger explains the Children's Garden section of the Teaching & Display Garden. During a normal year, the garden is used for lots of children's programming.
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