The Expo received a major boost in the form of a recently announced $14,000 USDA Specialty Crops Block Grant. The grant will support marketing and education efforts for the Expo including nationally known keynote speakers Dan Heims and Stephanie Cohen. The ISHS will expand programming this year by offering two keynote sessions, 12 lecture-style presentations, live demonstrations by Iowa experts, an expanded trade show, children and family activities, and an agricultural issues forum.
The ISHS was founded in 1866 for the purpose of promoting and encouraging horticulture and its related interests in Iowa through the collection and dissemination of information concerning production, marketing, and utilization of horticultural crops. The Iowa Code of Law states support for the ISHS from the Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS). The ISHS promotes the horticulture industry as a means of diversifying agriculture in Iowa.
More information about the Expo appears on the Society’s website, www.iowahort.org.
10/21/2009