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Training

  • We’ve been getting a lot of questions about continuing education requirements for MGEVs. Glad you asked! You’ll note in our updated Program Policies that “MGEVS are encouraged to seek at least 6 hours of continuing education each year and report it within MGLOG.” For the past several years, we have been moving toward the habit of…

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  • Risk Management Training (RMT) updated to the newest version of the training, 4.0, today. Please complete this required training for all Extension volunteers through MGLOG before your next service with youth projects or by November 1, 2023.Note that the training is different. Instead of a single video, there are three interactive modules for volunteers to…

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  • Risk Management Training (RMT) will update in August.  All MGEVs and Trainees (as well as employees) are required to complete the training, even if you have completed it already this calendar year. Plan to complete the training by August 30 or your first service engagement thereafter. It will take about 30 minutes or so to…

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  • What is firescaping?

    Is firescaping a new term for you? Let’s define it! “Fire-resistant landscaping, or firescaping, is a landscape design that reduces the vulnerability of a home and property to wildfire.” Learn why and how to create a firescape in the first Advanced Training for MGEVs in 2023. Check out all the training and registration details in…

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  • Georgia Master Gardeners, help protect your community from wildfire with a new training on fire-resistant landscaping. This six-week (March 18 – April 29, 2023), user-friendly online course includes videos and activities for completion for Advanced Training credit. Every year, hundreds to thousands of wildfires occur in the southeastern U.S. Fortunately, there are actions that homeowners…

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  • First offered in Fall 2020 (learn all about the training in this previous blog post), this popular training will be offered twice in 2021, in spring (February 20 – April 10, 2021) and in fall (September 11 – October 23, 2021). The First Detector training focuses on the identification and reporting of invasive species. This training is 100%…

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  • Are you picking copious amount of squash every day? Have you picked any okra yet? Are your hydrangeas blooming? Are you watching those plump tomatoes getting more red every day? (It’s almost BLT Day at my house, celebrated with fresh bread on the harvest day of the first ripe slicing tomato!) If it weren’t for…

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  • We’ve had a great response to registration for our upcoming Regional Leadership Conference (RLC) scheduled for March 20, 2020, in Albany, GA. As a precaution, we have decided to forego the March RLC in favor of incorporating the “Developing Strategic Content” material into our June session. Further updates will be included here on Trellis and…

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  • What do sales people and MGEVs have in common? They both want to give you advice and information, only ours is free! MGEVs work hard to gather and prepare unbiased, research-based information for the gardening public. We want to make sure our Extension messages are heard and seen in today’s busy and loud world of…

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  • Last Call for RMT

    Thank you to each of you who have completed your 2019 Risk Management Training (RMT)! We are at 77% completion across the state. If you haven’t already completed the 2019 training, you must not have volunteered since August. Even though the temperatures are still incredibly warm, the reality is that October 1 is two weeks…

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