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On March 8, 2018, Dr. John Ruter joined us for our second Thoughtful Thursday webinar session to discuss conifers in Georgia. Dr. Ruter is with the UGA Department of Horticulture and is a Professor and UGA Trial Gardens Director. He currently has a 60% research, 30% teaching, and 10% Extension appointment. Prior to 2011,…
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guest post by Becky Griffin, UGA Extension Community and School Garden Coordinator Gardeners and MGEVs who work in school gardens should make a primary goal to see the garden become a popular spot that is used often. If the garden is used solely to grow a few vegetables for a few students, tremendous opportunities are…
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Last week was the first installment in our Thoughtful Thursdays webinar series! Becky Griffin, Community and School Garden Coordinator for the state of Georgia, joined us online. Becky describes her work as a tool for Extension agents and Georgia Master Gardener Extension Volunteers. She provides school garden training and assists Extension agents in training school…
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From our friends at PennState: Pennsylvania is very excited to be hosting the 2019 International Master Gardener Conference! It will be held in the Greater Philadelphia Region/Valley Forge, on June 17 – 21, 2019. We are eager to share day trips to many of our public gardens on Sunday and Monday preceding the conference and…
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Lots of exciting things will be happening in 2018! One of those is the start of a monthly webinar series brought to you by the Georgia Master Gardener Extension Volunteer State Program Office (SPO) for Agents & MGEVs called Thoughtful Thursdays. This is a webinar series designed by the SPO to provide a brief, 30 minute…
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If you are one of the many folks training this winter to become a Georgia MGEV, welcome! I am so glad that you are joining Extension in the terrific business of addressing consumer horticulture education in communities all across Georgia. We have so much fun sharing what we know with others so that they, too,…
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Need some continuing education in 2018? Check out this symposium!
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It is MGEV training season here in Georgia, and we are anticipating the welcome of several hundred new MGEV trainees within the space of a few months! It is always a time of high excitement and lots of activity. Getting everyone registered for training, making sure speakers are in place, testing computers and projectors, and…
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It’s official! The Georgia Master Gardener Extension Volunteer Program state webpage has been updated! Here are some changes to note: It looks completely different, but is hopefully more user friendly! There are direct links to the Trellis blog and Extension calendar on the home page. There are resource pages for potential volunteers and current…
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Happy New Year, MGEVs! I hope that you had a healthy holiday season and that you are managing to stay warm. If you are staying inside, checking out all of those tempting catalogs coming your way, you might be making a list of goals for your gardens. Personally, I have few gardening goals for the…
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