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Residents, farmers, and gardeners with a passion for peppers will have an opportunity to expand their knowledge next Saturday, April 15. The Beginning Farmer & Rancher Development Program at the University of Guam’s Western Pacific Tropical Research Center is hosting a free pepper production workshop from 9 a.m. to noon at the University of Guam Agriculture & Life Sciences building, Room 127.
The focus will include not just hot peppers, but sweet peppers as well that can be successfully grown in Guam.
The workshop is being organized by Dr. Robert Bevacqua, a horticulturalist whose experience with peppers includes work modernizing the New Mexico chile industry, promoting peppers as an alternative crop in Virginia, and advising pepper producers in Guam. He will be joined by entomologist and pest management expert Dr. Aubrey Moore and Rynette Perez, a community nutrition specialist, both with the University of Guam extension service.
Participants will learn:
Types of peppers in Guam and the top recommended varieties
Growing peppers with drip irrigation
How to propagate, plant, cultivate, and fertilize peppers
Products that can be made from local peppers
Environmentally friendly methods of pest management for pepper plants
Space is limited to 25 participants. To register, email Kaya Taitano at taitanok14646@triton.uog.edu.
