{"id":1139,"date":"2023-01-17T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afe.epicenter1.com\/news\/educational-grant-blooming-at-mississippi-state-university"},"modified":"2024-03-20T13:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:27:49","slug":"educational-grant-blooming-at-mississippi-state-university","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/endowment.org\/es\/news\/educational-grant-blooming-at-mississippi-state-university","title":{"rendered":"Educational Grant Blooming at Mississippi State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>If there\u2019s one thing we love to see, <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15994 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-files\/Picture14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"235\">it\u2019s our educational grants\u00a0in action, educating and inspiring students.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2022, AFE gave researchers at Mississippi State University an educational grant of $5,500 to start a cut flower garden on campus. This funding helped purchase perennial plants, gardening tools, and materials to create raised gardens with an irrigation system.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16017 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-files\/Resized_20220525_1051431.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"246\">MSU began work on the garden last Spring. Since then, they have installed 24 raised flower beds, established a drip irrigation system, placed weed barriers, and set up compost bins. In addition, they grew and evaluated 23 varieties of specialty-cut annual flowers as part of an experiment through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascfg.org\">Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the flowers grow, the MSU faculty have grown their educational curriculum to match. In the upcoming semesters, two upper-level floral design courses, Wedding Floral Design and Floral Design II, will complete hands-on projects that directly utilize the cut flower garden.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThe cut flower garden will allow students a more hands-on approach to learning best practices for growing and collecting cut floral material from nature and fill an educational gap currently lacking in the degree curriculum,\u201d Dr. Cole Etheredge, Assistant Professor of Floral Management at MSU, said.\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The faculty plans to incorporate the garden into even more courses over time. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16018 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-files\/Resized_20220531_114700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"215\">Currently, they are planning a 10-week Floral Management course that students can take over the Summer that teaches everything from how to establish a cut flower garden, growing and maintaining it from seed to harvest, post-harvest care and handling for flowers, and even designing with the flowers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the future, the faculty hopes to use more funding to expand the garden by planting more perennial shrub varieties, incorporating additional raised flower beds, participating in testing for new specialty cut flower varieties, and installing a rainwater collection system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16003 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-files\/Picture10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Picture10.jpg 391w, https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Picture10-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\">This is exactly the kind of work we at the Endowment strive to empower and encourage. If you would like to help us as we continue funding educational programs like this one, please consider <a href=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/es\/donate\/\">a contribution to AFE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In everything we do, we aim to inspire and educate the next generation about the vast opportunities in the floral industry\u2013and, hopefully, spark a passion for flowers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scroll down to see more photos from the cut flower garden!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","news-categories":[40,53,31,29,44],"class_list":["post-1139","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-categories-faculty-researcher","news-categories-grants","news-categories-latest-news","news-categories-news","news-categories-student"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Educational Grant Blooming at Mississippi State University - American Floral Endowment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/es\/news\/educational-grant-blooming-at-mississippi-state-university\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Educational Grant Blooming at Mississippi State University - American Floral Endowment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If there\u2019s one thing we love to see, it\u2019s our educational grants\u00a0in action, educating and inspiring students. 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