The annual Granville Gardeners’ Expo is less than a month away, and Vendor Coordinator Christi Henthorn said this year’s event features educational workshops, vendors, local handcrafted items as well as the plants, vegetables, herbs and more for gardeners to scoop up and add to their own landscapes.
The expo will be on Saturday, April 18 at the Granville County Convention & Expo Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
More than 85 vendors will fill the indoor and outdoor spaces of the expo center that day, but there’s room for just a few more. “We’re spread out all over the grounds,” Henthorn said on Tuesday’s segment of The Local Skinny!
In years past, the education workshops were held inside the convention center, but this year, they’ll be integrated among the vendors and plants, sharing their knowledge about diverse topics ranging from gardening as therapy for anxiety and depression and incorporating native plants into the landscape to bird feeders, bees and pollinators and making herbal teas and breads.
Henthorn said she’d recommend bringing a wagon to make your shopping experience more enjoyable. You can fill that wagon with plants, unique arts and crafts items and more, she said. Most vendors are equipped to take electronic payments, she added.
Members of the Master Gardeners will be on hand to talk about “victory” gardens and there will be Earth Day activities taking place during the day as well. A raffle full of great prizes has been organized to support the Gardeners’ annual scholarship.
Add a fleet of food trucks, stocked with yummy food and treats, and you’ve got a full day of fun for the whole family.
Indeed, Henthorn said the Gardeners’ Expo is a family-friendly event. Last year’s expo had more than 2,200 in attendance and this year’s event is shaping up to top that number.
“Our plants are generally all organic,” Henthorn said. They’re either grown locally at a couple of different nearby nurseries, or they come straight out of the gardens of Granville Gardener members.
An online shopping list of some of the available plants and herbs is available at https://thegranvillegardeners.org/?page_id=1820, and Henthorn said many additional plants will be for sale on Expo day. If you place an online order, pickup will take place in a drive-thru line that takes you to the back side of the covered arena behind the Expo Center.
If you’d like to volunteer to help at the Expo, or if you’d like to rent a vendor spot or become an event sponsor, visit the Eventeny website at https://www.eventeny.com/events/granville-gardeners-expo-2026-25336/.
Learn more about the Granville Gardeners Club at https://thegranvillegardeners.org/
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