Sherra Owen will be the guest presenter at the upcoming Lafayette County Master Gardeners Fall Lecture.

The event takes place from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 19 at the Lafayette County MSU Extension Office at 70 F.D. “Buddy” East Parkway.

The program is free and open to the public.

The doors open and registration begins at 8:30 am. Refreshments will be provided during registration.

The presentation will be done in two parts — The Flora of Yoknapatawpha: The Making of the Faulkner Literary Garden and Living with Natives and Nature’s Most Important Plant.

Owen is a Mississippi Master Naturalist, a Master Gardener, a member of the Garden Clubs of Mississippi and the Mississippi Native Plant Society, and curator of the William Faulkner Literary Garden.

She is a Garden Lecture Series speaker and has been a popular native plant educator, tour guide and speaker since 1986. She and her husband, Ken, maintain a backyard native woodland garden and a mile trail through a mature riparian forest. They open their garden to the public in April where she educates about food, fun, folklore, medicinal value and sustainability of native plants.

For questions or more information, contact the Lafayette County Master Gardeners at lcmga38@gmail.com.