| Do the Cornucopia Challenge scavenger hunt for a prize and a chance to win more prizes! Pick up your Challenge card at the Communications tent or at any exhibit where you see an orange number sign. Click here to find out how to do the Cornucopia Challenge. Ornamental and Crop Plants
- Home and Garden Education Center: The Plant Doctors are in!
The center's horticulturists will be here to answer all your plant pest and disease questions.
- UConn Soil Nutrient Analysis Lab: Does your soil past the test? Bring a half cup of lawn or garden soil for a free pH test and limestone recommendations.
- Invasive Plants and Non-invasive Alternatives: Learn to identify non-native invasive plants and find out what to replace them with in your landscape. Take the Invasive Plant Quiz! Visitors are encouraged to bring in plant specimens for identification.
- Connecticut Horticultural Society: Free membership for students.
- UConn Turf Club: Learn the best time to seed your lawn. And, sales of lawn seed blended specifically for Connecticut
- Connecticut Master Gardeners: Information on the Asian long-horned beetle and the emerald ash borer. And, NEW!meet Shemp, the giant Asian long-horned beetle!
- NEW!Sterile Euonymus: Burning bush gets a genetic makeover.
- UConn Hort Club Store: Colorblends tulips, daffodils and hyacinths; floral arrangements; apples, candy apples, apple cider, pumpkins, gourds, baked goods, Indian corn, decorative corn stalks, honey, maple syrup, UConn Plant Science t-shirts and sweatshirts. NEW!Chat with Ratcliffe Hicks, Esquire, benefactor of the Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture and his sister Emma Hicks-Downing!
- Back by popular demand!Sit on a Tractor and Talk to a Farmer.
- Fescue to the Rescue: Live
turf samples, handouts. Low-maintenance, quality grasses suitable for Connecticut.
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM): Play Bug Bingo and learn about invasive insects!
- Low-maintenance, sustainable plants for Connecticut landscapes.
- NEW!UConn Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects: Ask me about landscape architecture! Two teams of LA students will go head-to-head to solve a design problem, with the final products on display for visitors to comment and vote on.
Agricultural and Companion Animals
Health and Nutrition
- NEW!UConn Allied Health Sciences Club: The Benefits and Risks of Caffeine.
- NEW!Food and Water: Weathering the (Next) Storm.
- Cancer and Your Health: Visitors take a 4 ½-minute cancer education survey and receive cancer risk reduction/prevention counseling specific to each individual’s cancer risks. Cancer fact sheet and brochures.
- NEW!UConn Nutrition Club:
MyPlate: Combine food models from the different groups to practice making a balanced meal.
- School of Pharmacy students: Learn about proper destruction and disposal of unused medications and misuse of "good" drugs.
- NEW!Make butter!
- What is a Functional Food?
- NEW! International Omega-3 Learning and Education Consortium for Health and Medicine.
- NEW!UConn Diet and Health Initiative.
- NEW!HuskyTHON:
Learn about this student-run event that raises money for Connecticut Children's Medical Center through Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Glow-in-the-dark Children's Miracle Network bracelets.
The Environment, Land Use and Wildlife
- Monarch Teacher Network: Amazing Monarch Butterflies. Learn about the life cycle of of the monarch and its amazing 2.000-mile annual migration to Mexico. Live caterpillars and and/or butterflies will be on display.
- UConn’s Sea Grant College Program: Fish Painting and Other Fin Tales: A hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves activity, along with information from Sea Grant related to Long Island Sound.
- Timber Sports Team demonstration: Learn to be a lumberjack. Axe throwing, cross-cut sawing, chopping.
- NEW!Woodlands and Wildlife: Learn about what wildlife groups live in different woodland habitats.
- NEW!Is My Well Polluted? Inject dye into a groundwater model and guess where the groundwater contamination goes. Educational and informational materials available.
- UConn Chapter, American Fisheries Society: Electrofishing: Equipment used in fisheries research.
- UConn Student Chapter, Wildlife Society: Pelts and bones of furbearers, and a footprint matching game.
- Beardsley Zoo: Animal Tracks: What's in your back yard? Learn the effects of conservation, what animals are moving back into Connecticut and how to live side by side with them. Make a track card with rubber stamps!
- Lutz Children's Museum: Meet and pet some animals from the museum.
- UConn Forestry and Wildlife Club: Make cider!
Sustainable Living
- Turning Peanuts into Profits for Farmers in East Africa: The real world application of agricultural and resource economics in developing nations.
- The Economic Impact of Connecticut's Agricultural Industry: Surprising facts you may not know!
- NEW!Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NSARE): Producing natural local meats for consumers.
- Connecticut State OMK Team (Operation: Military Kids): Show your support for military kids! Write a thank you note the child of deployed military personnel.
- NEW!4-H Wired for Wind: Learn how wind turbines work and the effect blade size, number and tilt have on their efficiency.
- Connecticut Farm Risk Management Program: Helping develop and sustain Connecticut agriculture
- Alpha Zeta: Agriculture is more than just farming; Play Odd Ag Job Match Up.
Academic Programs
Communications Resource Center
- Free Connecticut Family Day/UConn Family Weekend photos.
- College of Agriculture and Natural Resources logo items, books, free and low-cost publications on agriculture, natural resources, nutrition and more.
- Pick up your Cornucopia Challenge card.
- Enter to win an Emotion Glide kayak and paddle!
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