School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies News Articles

This week's Green Tip is brought to you by the Horticulture Club: Fall is a great time to plant in your landscape because of lower temperatures and increased rainfall, but make sure to think before you plant. Consider planting native species that are better acclimated to our area and often will tolerate local insects and diseases, as well as the amount of rainfall we get.

Locally, our water reservoirs have been pronounced at 100-percent capacity all the more reason, per this first Green Tip of the new semester, to conserve and preserve the natural resource we have. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has placed water as No. 1 in its "Pick 5 for the Environment" campaign. Wasted food also is wasted water.

While many will spend the three-day holiday weekend away from classroom buildings, enjoying the outdoors as summer wends its way to a close, one Pennsylvania College of Technology student will spend the full weekend with his laptop computer in Room 166 of the Bush Campus Center. Garrett M. Book, of Lebanon, has chosen to participate in the International 3-Day Novel Contest.

Penn College faculty and staff representing the Ornamental Horticulture program attended the 37th annual Penn Atlantic Nursery Trade Show at the newly opened Greater Philadelphia Expo Center from July 28-30. Horticulture instructor Carl J. Bower and Melissa M.

Rising ninth- and 10th-grade students attending this week's SMART Girls residential activities at Penn College visited the Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood on Wednesday, learning about ornamental horticulture majors in the morning and spending the afternoon at the heavy construction equipment training site.

Fourteen ornamental horticulture students along with Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty members Carl J. Bower, Dennis Fink and Dennis P. Skinner, and Melissa M. Stocum, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Natural Resources Management enjoyed a beautiful and education-filled field trip to the Philadelphia area on April 29.

This week's Green Tip is from the Horticulture Club: With lawn-mowing season upon us, you might consider your old lawn mower and how it performs. If you have a small lawn, you may wish to switch to a reel mower (the type that you manually push through your lawn).

Students in the ornamental horticulture: landscape technology major at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Schneebeli Earth Science Center constantly are working on projects that add lasting interest and beauty to the Allenwood-area campus. One such project, the Idea Garden, will combine several unique landscaping ideas and design features.

Five Pennsylvania College of Technology students and a faculty mentor recently volunteered to landscape the surroundings of the Williamsport YWCA, part of a national day of service organized by the trade organization that accredits the college's horticulture majors. Trimming, edging and mulching at the 815 W. Fourth St.

This week's Green Tip, provided by Penn College's Horticulture Club, is about inexpensive and maintenance-free lighting for your garden. Solar garden lights are easy to install and can provide six to 12 hours of lighting each night. When installing solar lights, simply place them in the ground wherever you want them.