St. James Parish LSU AgCenter

10/06/2026

🍀It's National 4-H Week🍀

It's National 4-H Week! Stay tuned to sew how St. James Parish 4-H is celebrating each day this week.🍀

10/06/2026

October marks the time you can start planting strawberries in Louisiana. You can access the strawberry growing guide here: https://tinyurl.com/2a5uwted

10/01/2026

Today is the Day!! Join our horticulture agent, Stephanie Gravois, for a W**ds Workshop at the Fast Food Farm in Gramercy next Thursday, October 1st at 6:30pm! There will be a W**d ID Challenge, discussions on timing your winter w**d treatments, and additional w**d prevention measures you can incorporate in your garden! 2042 North Golden Grove Street, Gramercy, LA 70052. For additional questions or concerns please call 225-562-2320 or 985-497-3261. This will be an outdoor event estimated to last one hour to an hour and a half.

09/29/2026

Two more days! Don't forget to join our horticulture agent, Stephanie Gravois, for a W**ds Workshop at the Fast Food Farm in Gramercy next Thursday, October 1st at 6:30pm! There will be a W**d ID Challenge, discussions on timing your winter w**d treatments, and additional w**d prevention measures you can incorporate in your garden! 2042 North Golden Grove Street, Gramercy, LA 70052. For additional questions or concerns please call 225-562-2320 or 985-497-3261. This will be an outdoor event estimated to last one hour to an hour and a half.

09/28/2026

Volunteer Workday to help prepare for St. James Parish Ag Day!

09/28/2026

09/28/2026

🌿🌸 IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR THE BIG ONE! 🌸🌿

If you love Louisiana irises—or have been thinking about adding some to your garden—mark your calendar for the Greater New Orleans Iris Society’s (GNOIS) Annual Louisiana Iris Rhizome Sale at Longue Vue House & Gardens!

📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026
⏰ 9:00 a.m. until noon — or until sold out, if earlier
📍 Longue Vue House & Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, New Orleans

There no entrance fee to Longue Vue if you are attending the iris sale.

This is GNOIS’s big fall bare-root iris sale, and this year the Society says there will be hundreds of irises available representing 100 varieties. The irises come primarily from the Society’s Island Iris Nursery in New Orleans City Park, which contains more than 500 varieties of Louisiana irises.

Past GNOIS sales at Longue Vue have offered an opportunity to find both well-known favorites and unusual Louisiana iris cultivars that can be difficult to find elsewhere.

The Society has noted that fall is an especially good time to plant bare-root Louisiana irises, giving them time to establish their roots before the next bloom season.

And there is an added bonus to shopping irises at Longue Vue!The sale is held outdoors behind the house, not too far from the Wild Garden, so take a few minutes to walk through this remarkable historic garden that has a Louisiana iris collection while you're there.

Longue Vue's Wild Garden contains what the garden describes as the oldest consistently maintained Louisiana iris collection in the greater New Orleans area. The collection dates back to the late 1930s and includes all five Louisiana iris species, historic cultivars and naturally occurring hybrids. Today, more than 3,500 iris plants grow along the winding path through the garden.

The Wild Garden also has a special connection to Caroline Dormon, the legendary Louisiana conservationist, botanist, writer and artist. Dormon worked with the Stern family at Longue Vue beginning in 1947, helping steward its native plant and Louisiana iris collections. Several Dormon-hybridized Louisiana irises remain in the collection today.

And, interestingly enough, Caroline Dormon’s lifelong love of Louisiana irises and native Louisiana plants will be the topic of one of our April 2027 SLI convention's guest speakers: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DkiMPFjKJ/

Although the irises will not be blooming until April, you can attend the iris sale, enjoy the Wild Garden, and leave with some new Louisiana iris treasures for your own garden!

Come early for the best selection!

There will be free coffee and snacks available.

We will share the GNOIS event notice for the iris sale with all of the details as soon as they post it on their page.

09/26/2026

Don't forget to join our horticulture agent, Stephanie Gravois, for a W**ds Workshop at the Fast Food Farm in Gramercy next Thursday, October 1st at 6:30pm! There will be a W**d ID Challenge, discussions on timing your winter w**d treatments, and additional w**d prevention measures you can incorporate in your garden! 2042 North Golden Grove Street, Gramercy, LA 70052. For additional questions or concerns please call 225-562-2320 or 985-497-3261. This will be an outdoor event estimated to last one hour to an hour and a half.