Agriplex programs announced for 2025
Published 6:15 pm Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Nevaeh Tucker, 11, learns how to cast from Josh Mann with Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, during the North Alabama Agriplex’s annual Nature Camp at Camp Meadowbrook in July 2024. The first-time angler had reeled in three bream within an hour of learning how bait, cast and reel in a fish. Amanda Shavers | The Cullman Times
Master Gardener Brad Mitchell, at the Agriplex in December 2023, raised almost one-third of this year’s Grow More, Give More donated produce haul. In 2024, Mitchell grew and donated 1,698 pounds of produce. Amanda Shavers | The Cullman Times
Preschool age children dig for potatoes during the June 11, 2024, Garden Camp at the North Alabama Agriplex. The program rotates campers through a variety of indoor and outdoor learning experiences. Amanda Shavers | The Cullman Times
Rhonda Britton, Campus Engineer for the Auburn University Research and Innovation Campus in Huntsville, demonstrates how to make a rain barrel during the North Alabama Agriplex Heritage Homeschool session Dec. 7, 2023. Amanda Shavers | The Cullman Times
The North Alabama Agriplex is entering the new year with a brand-new twelve-month slate of events, learning opportunities, and fun things to do — all now available to browse in the Cullman-based educational nonprofit’s 2025 Program Guide.
Registration for all 2025 programs from January through May is now live at the Agriplex’s website (agriplex.org), with the new program guide itself also ready to browse either online or in a take-home booklet form that guests can refer to all throughout the year. The Agriplex’s remaining December 2024 schedule is also online at the site, as well as the complete activities schedule for January 2025.
As part of its year in review, the Agriplex shared a look back at the results of its ongoing partnership with area farmers and growers plus the Cullman Master Gardeners to feed the community through the Grow More, Give More program. In 2024, the program yielded 5,161 pounds of fresh locally-raised produce, all donated to 21 local agencies that, in turn, distribute the food to those in need.
The Agriplex also thanked Master Gardener Brad Mitchell in particular for raising almost one-third of this year’s donated produce haul himself. In 2024, Mitchell grew and donated 1,698 pounds of produce; a long list of fruits and veggies that kept his robust green-thumb skills active from springtime through autumn.
For more information about the Agriplex or any of its 2025 programs, visit the Agriplex’s website (agriplex.org), send an email (outreach.agriplex@gmail.com), or call 256-297-1044.
Benjamin Bullard can be reached at bbullard@cullmantimes.com and by phone at 256-734-2131 ext. 234.
