Ferntasitc Fair 2025

Lincoln University Missouri Cooperative Extension Ferntastic Fair 2025 graphic with fern leaves.

Join Lincoln University’s Native and Specialty Crops Program for an evening exploring Missouri’s native ferns — their uses, importance, and how to grow them.

Activities Include:

  • Fern-themed crafts and clothes for sale
  • Food samples prepared with fiddlehead ferns
  • Card making with pressed ferns
  • Walking tours
  • Mosquito fern (Azolla sp.) exhibit
  • Display of native ferns in containers
  • Propagation demonstrations
  • Q&A and fern identification with botanist Justin Thomas
Register by September 10 to win a potted fern: 
https://bit.ly/47CUOeL 

     

For more info or accommodation, email Sue Bartelette: BarteletteW@LincolnU.edu.

     

Event sponsored by:
Lincoln University Cooperative Extention
Grow Native
Missouri Grown USA 

USDA logo with National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture

     

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