{"id":776,"date":"2016-03-15T18:21:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/?p=776"},"modified":"2016-03-15T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:21:48","slug":"mgev-appreciation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/2016\/03\/mgev-appreciation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"MGEV Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/03\/spotlight-2a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-783\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/03\/spotlight-2a-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"spotlight 2a\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/03\/spotlight-2a-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/03\/spotlight-2a-189x138.jpg 189w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/03\/spotlight-2a.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The third Saturday in March is celebrated as MGEV Appreciation Day. Typical celebration activities include proclamations, plant clinics, and other community education activities. It is a local celebration most years, though we had a\u00a0large statewide celebration in 2014. This year, March 19 is our special day. Across the state, Agents and MGEVs are celebrating this week with special events, projects, and recognition. We have been sharing all kinds of extra things on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UGAMasterGardener\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate Georgia MGEVs at the state level this year, Sarah and I have prepared Project Spotlights. These are stories about 18\u00a0projects that were\u00a0selected from more\u00a01200+ projects statewide! To select the feature projects, we reviewed all projects in MGLOG by state initiative with volunteer hours reported in 2015. The projects were selected to represent the commitment of MGEVs as well as the diversity of outreach to communities.\u00a0We looked for a variety of project types, group sizes, and locations. Being limited to 18 projects, not all counties were included this year. Projects featured include:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/departments\/hort\/extension\/mastergardener\/EnvStew.html\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Stewardship<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tucker Butterfly Garden (DeKalb)<\/li>\n<li>Linwood Preserve\/Redbud Project (Hall)<\/li>\n<li>Sparrow Field Pollinator Berm (Chatham)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/departments\/hort\/extension\/mastergardener\/GardeningwithYouth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gardening with Youth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Junior Master Gardener Program (Houston)<\/li>\n<li>Gardens and Orchards in Valdosta City Schools (Lowndes)<\/li>\n<li>Junior Master Gardener Program (Chattooga)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/departments\/hort\/extension\/mastergardener\/HomeFood.html\" target=\"_blank\">Home Food Production<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McDaniel Farm Park Demo Garden (Gwinnett)<\/li>\n<li>Learning for Life Garden (Forsyth)<\/li>\n<li>Ag Day at Farmer\u2019s Market (Rockdale)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/departments\/hort\/extension\/mastergardener\/Health.html\" target=\"_blank\">Health Benefits of Gardening<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PAR Community Gardens (Fayette)<\/li>\n<li>Healthy Life Community Garden (Spalding)<\/li>\n<li>Wrens Nest (Whitfield)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/departments\/hort\/extension\/mastergardener\/Landscapes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Value of Landscaping<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival (Douglas)<\/li>\n<li>Atlanta Habitat\u00a0 for Humanity (Central Fulton)<\/li>\n<li>Rose Lawn Museum Demo Garden (Bartow)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/departments\/hort\/extension\/mastergardener\/ExtSupport.html\" target=\"_blank\">BONUS: General Support to Extension and UGA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>State Botanical Garden, UGarden, and UGA Trial Garden (Athens-Clarke)<\/li>\n<li>Coastal Georgia Botanical Garden (Chatham)<\/li>\n<li>Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center (Union)<\/li>\n<li>Peach Research at the USDA Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory (Peach)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By spotlighting MGEV projects, we recognize and celebrate your efforts. We also share with the public the great work that is being done in Georgia communities, using horticulture to improve environment, health, and quality of life. These spotlights are linked from\u00a0our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caes.uga.edu\/departments\/hort\/extension\/mastergardener\/news.html\">News and Events <\/a>pages.<\/p>\n<p>Happy MGEV Appreciation Day! Thank you for all that you do!<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/02\/MGhand_grn.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-753\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/02\/MGhand_grn-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"New MG logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/02\/MGhand_grn-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/02\/MGhand_grn-160x138.jpg 160w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/files\/2016\/02\/MGhand_grn.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third Saturday in March is celebrated as MGEV Appreciation Day. Typical celebration activities include proclamations, plant clinics, and other community education activities. It is a local celebration most years, though we had a\u00a0large statewide celebration in 2014. This year, March 19 is our special day. Across the state, Agents and MGEVs are celebrating this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/mgevp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}