National Master Gardener Network
As one of my community service projects for our new Master Gardener Club, I have started a website that is dedicated to Master Gardeners nationwide. This site will be a place where Master Gardeners can go to get all types of gardening information, share stories, swap seeds and much more. There will be an online magazine starting February 1 (which will allow Master Gardeners to submit stories about their gardening experiences) and a photo gallery for members to upload their pictures to.
Many new features will be added as my time allows. Please feel free to send feedback and let me know if you have any suggestions for the site.
Please visit: www.mastergardenersnetwork.com
Use the username: master and the password: gardener to browse the members only sections.
This log in will be available until February 20, 2009. After that, all members will need to make their own usernames and passwords.
Thank you for your cooperation,
Dina Schoenfeld
Owensville, Missouri
Ps. If you have any content that would be beneficial to this site, please feel free to forward a link to the page(s).
3 comments Lori Bushway | Public events, awards ...
Looking forward to reading and contributing when I have something worthwhile to add.
Thanks so much.
Carol
Is this club comprised of University Extension MG volunteers? Do other states call their programs “clubs”? Several of the links were broken so I could not find the answers.
Some states do call them clubs and consider it a certificate program.
However…
In New York State and most other states the Master Gardener program is a volunteer service program. The Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Master Gardener Volunteer (MGV) program is managed by individual counties there is no volunteer opportunities out of the state office. Volunteer training occurs at different intervals for each county. Host counties select applicants from their pool of residents of that county. It is “unlikely that a county” will select an applicant from another county. Core horticulture training is the first requirement of the Master Gardener Volunteer Program, followed by an agreement to volunteer at the host county for one or more years. Once you stop volunteering you are no longer a Master Gardener. It is not a certificate program.
To find out the training schedule in your county find their contact information on this site: http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/counties.html
To find out more about the Master Gardener Volunteer program in general visit:
http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/education/mgprogram/index.html
Further, the content of our Organic Gardening course is very similar to the Master Gardener Volunteer training program: http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/education/index.html