Light Matters

With Steve Amerige

North Carolina Master Gardener

Ph.D. Student, Crop Sciences, NCSU
Guest Lecturer, NCSU

Date:  Tuesday, July 14 2026

Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Eastern via Zoom 

(Registration is required to receive the Zoom link for the live presentation.  The presentation will be recorded.)

Cost:

GAONC Members- Free 

Non-Members - $10 (non-refundable) - once the recording is ready to view, we'll send you a link that will be valid for 30 days.  OR you can join GAONC ($20 annual membership fee), attend ALL of our presentations for free, AND have access to all of the recordings in our Video Library to view on demand.

About this Presentation:

Light matters in more ways than many gardeners realize. Understanding how light impacts our gardening involves far more than knowing whether a plant grows best in sun or shade. The light requirements of plants vary not only throughout a plant’s life cycle, but also depending on our interactions with the plant. This highly interactive session will be an opportunity to explore the nature of plants, what they want in terms of light, and how we can make that happen. Together, we’ll examine plant needs, how light is measured and, more importantly, how to apply these concepts in practical ways. Our discussion, which will be guided significantly by your questions, will focus on concepts that can be applied to all of your gardening activities, whether your passion is houseplants or creating and sustaining a large garden or landscape. You’ll come away with a new framework for thinking about light—one that you can apply to virtually every gardening situation, indoors and out. Understanding light helps us make better gardening decisions and grow healthier, more resilient plants.

The presentation will be recorded for 

members to view later in our Video Library.

About Our Speaker: 

Steve Amerige is a Crop Science doctoral student at NC State whose research applies machine learning and computer vision to crop disease identification. He develops interactive simulation and decision-support tools using a high-fidelity gaming engine and is a regular guest lecturer on digital agriculture and analytics.  

*Approval of this presentation for continuing education credit is at the discretion of

your program.