The 12th annual Spring Garden Fest will be held at the Reynolds Community College Goochland campus, 1851 Dickinson Road, on Saturday, April 23, from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Peggy Singlemann, director of horticulture at the Maymont Foundation in Richmond and host of WCVE Community Idea Stations’ “Virginia Home Grown,” will be the featured guest and will instruct registered participants in “Planting for Pollinators.” Singlemann lectures throughout the mid-Atlantic region and has been published in local and national periodicals such “American Nurseryman, Horticulture” and Virginia Gardener.  She is a member of the Central Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association, the Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association, the Virginia Society of Landscape Designers, the Virginia Green Industry Council and the Southern Garden History Society.

The event will feature three educational sessions, 22 classes, six hands-on workshops and four scheduled demonstrations. Instruction will include building homes for pollinators, growing sustainable gardens, identifying plant diseases, growing wild native plants and shrubs, bee keeping, landscaping and utilizing livestock and poultry in the home garden.  Other topics include processing native herbs and foods, creating a backyard orchard, growing small berries and fruits, improving your soil, identifying insects, vermiculture, creating self-watering containers, floral design and hypertufa.

Katy Overby, with Prince Edward Extension Service, will be one of Garden Fest’s presenters.

A $15 registration fee covers all classes with additional fees for workshop materials.  Classes and workshops are reserved on a first-come basis when payment is received (they fill up quickly, so register early). A $20 registration fee is required on April 23.

To make online registration for classes and workshops and directions to the campus visit http://gpmga.org/springgardenfest.htm. For more information call (804) 556-5841.

Reynolds students and the GPMGA will be hosting plant sales.