The Bakersfield College Environmental Horticulture Department will be hosting its sixth year of Garden Fest on April 9 at Horticulture Renegade Park.

The event will feature different booths and free seminars that will provide information and materials for gardening, arts and crafts, healthy foods and hybrid automobiles.

It will also be providing the public with environmentally friendly ideas of agriculture education.

“This is a perfect way to show people what BC has to offer from our Agriculture Department,” said Bakersfield College Horticulture Technician and Garden Fest Organizer, Sally Sterns.

“We’re going to have so many activities and treats for the kids to enjoy, like bounce houses and Ben and Jerry’s,” said Sterns.

Free admission and giveaways are said to be involved at the annual event and booth space will be available for reservation at a space fee of $75, according to the event’s online site.

“Non-profit organizations and groups on campus are allowed to use booths free of charge and the money they make is for their own purposes of supporting their organization. The child care department always comes out successful when raising money,” said Sterns.

The booth that will represent the child care department will be selling raffle tickets and giving away prizes to those who are attending.

“The groups that will be advertising and fundraising pay the fee that will go into supporting our green houses and the rest of the Agriculture Department,” said Sterns.

Various campus clubs and public events are scheduled to participate in next month’s Garden Fest.