UNM-Gallup Home & Garden Show Set for April 25-26

For Release April 14, 2008

The University of New Mexico-Gallup will host a Gallup Home and Garden Show on Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, in Gurley Hall.

On Friday, April 25, there will be tables in Gurley Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the following participants: the UNMG Construction Technology program, Professor Jeanne Martinez-Welles’ seed exchange group, Holiday Nursery, Gallup Solar, Shelter plus Design, Habitat for Humanity, Krouth Construction Company, Hunger Grow Away and Gallup Lumber.

At noon on Saturday, April 26, Krouth Construction Co. will give the seminar “Passive Adobe,” which will include green building topics on solar adobe, heavy equipment operation and bio diesel, in Construction Technology Room 104. There will also be a hands-on demonstration of an adobe-making machine and adobe wall building. Call Construction Technology Instructor Rick Krouth at 863-7560 for more information.

At 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, there will be home tours, demos and field trips, including a presentation by Shelter plus Design on Alternative Energy-Structural Insulated Panels or SIPS, in the Construction Technology Building Room 107. Call Construction Technology Instructor Chris Chavez at 863-7544 for more details.

Anyone interested in presenting may contact Rick Krouth at rtkrouth@unm.edu, or fax (505) 863-7560