[136] Oct. 8 MTSU Plant Sale is Open to the Public

Release date: Oct. 7, 2010


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
School of Agribusiness/Agriscience contact: Dr. Nate Phillips, 615-494-8985 or nphillip@mtsu.edu

Oct. 8 MTSU Plant Sale is Open to the Public


(MURFREESBORO) — MTSU’s Plant and Soil Science Club will be holding a plant sale on Friday, Oct. 8, officials with the School of Agribusiness and Agriscience said today.

The plant sale, which is open to the public, will be held from 7 to 8:30 a.m. and from noon to 6 p.m. in the Horticulture Center on Blue Raider Drive near Greenland Drive. Mums and landscape plants from the MTSU Farm will be available.

Proceeds from the sale are used to benefit students by helping maintain the MTSU Farm Laboratories and the Plant and Soil Science Club.

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