Continuing Education and Awareness
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Most pollinators are tiny, but mighty! The magnitude of the work they do is truly amazing! We can do the important job of supporting pollinator habitats by including certain plants in our gardens and following sound environmental practices. As Master Gardeners, you’re already great pollinator stewards, so use this opportunity to connect with your community…
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Here’s the line-up for the summer months of our Thoughtful Thursdays webinar series for Georgia MGEVs: June 18, 2020 – Junior Master Gardener Program, Sheri Dorn July 9, 2020 – Composting, Suki Janssen August 13, 2020 – Soils, Jason Lessl This week, Sheri Dorn, our state program coordinator, will be sharing all about the Junior…
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GA MGEVs, if you haven’t registered already, we hope you will to connect with us this Friday for our June Regional Leadership Conference from 10 am – noon. For all the details, head over to our previous blog post. This online conference is free, but registration is required to receive connection details (Register here!). You…
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Master Gardener Extension Volunteers: Our Associate Dean for Extension shared an encouraging update with Extension faculty and staff today. I asked her if I could share excerpts with you, and she readily agreed! I hope this will encourage you, too! Extension Family – it looks like we are finally starting to see some light at…
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Join us for this year’s Regional Leadership Conference series as we learn how to develop and deliver a strong Extension message that engages the community around plants and gardening. After delaying our series out of an abundance of concern for your health and that of our communities, we are excited to re-start the series…in a…
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Last week, Dr. Clint Waltz, UGA Extension Turfgrass Specialist, joined us online to discuss turf green-up. Last year’s high temperatures and lower rainfall totals impacted lawns by causing drought stress which, in turn, impacts how grasses transition this spring. Then, increased rainfall in early 2020 impacted soil temperatures, causing them to be cooler and delaying…
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Thursday, May 14, 2020 2:00-2:30 PM Spring Turf Green-Up from Dr. Clint Waltz, UGA Extension Specialist, Turfgrass During our monthly webinar (the second Thursday from 2:00-2:30 PM), UGA specialists share updates on a variety of horticulture topics with MGEVs. We use Zoom for these sessions so MGEVs, trainees, Extension agents and staff can join in…
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UGA Extension is offering a new, free weekly newsletter, Healthy Georgia Connections, to bring you timely and useful content about agriculture, the environment, communities, and youth and families, to help create a better Georgia, especially in this time of concern. Healthy Georgia encompasses all of UGA Extension’s work in community health and wellness programming across…
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Our April Thoughtful Thursday session featured a plant disease update from Dr. Elizabeth Little, Associate Professor and Extension Plant Pathologist. She pointed out that this spring has been particularly beautiful and the weather good, so few issues are showing up in the Plant Disease Lab (currently closed due to COVID-19 restricted campus activity). Dr. Little…
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April is an exciting month in the garden AND for the Georgia Master Gardener Extension Volunteer Program! Every April, we look forward to National Volunteer Appreciation Week (VAW) as a time to thank YOU for your commitment to Georgia communities. This year, VAW falls on April 19-25, 2020, while we are still staying home to…