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Project
As of
Jan 2010 |
Location & Description |
Date/Time |
Project Manager |
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Ask a Master Gardener Booth |
Provide an
"Ask A Master Gardener Booth" at various events throughout the County as
requested. Will have committee who
can pick up necessary information and man desk for events. |
Varies |
Marlene
Hoffman
Monica
Chaffin
Email Project Manager |
|
Bayless-Selby House |
Intersection of Mulberry & Carroll Streets in Denton-
Landscape
Grounds of Restored Victorian Building-
Volunteers needed:
(1) to plan & plant the landscape as needed, (2) to look after individual
gardens (herb, antique rose, perennial, pass-a-long), (3) to water the
trees,(4) to be docents as needed. |
3rd Wed of
each month-check calendar for start time |
Carolyn
Gold:
Email Project Manager |
|
Children's
Arbor Day
|
Bag redbud
seedlings & distribute to 3rd graders in Denton Schools. |
April 2010 |
Carolyn
Gold
Email Project Manager |
|
Children's
Community Garden |
Denton
Community Garden Bowling Green Park in Denton
Help
children learn about gardening, to see what vegetables look like before
they get to a grocery store, to learn if bugs can be friends & foes, to
learn about composting and mulch. |
Ongoing |
Martin Richards
Email Project Manager |
|
Clear Creek
Natural Heritage Area |
Approached by
MN's and Keep Denton Beautiful about developing a landscape for space in
front of learning center |
Ongoing |
Monique
Goodhart
Email Project Manager |
|
Consultation (“House”/Site Visit) Calls
|
Denton
County locations as needed. Help people on site to solve their tree, turf
grass or landscape problems. Diagnostic training provided to Master
Gardeners willing to make house calls. |
Ongoing |
Donna Wolfe
Email Project Manager |
|
Cool Shade
for 3rd Grade |
Bag &
deliver shade tree seedlings to 3rd graders in participating
schools in LISD |
Fall 2010 |
Susan
Musgrave
Susan Loos
Email Project Manager |
|
Dallas Arboretum |
Support
horticulture staff with various gardening and research tasks |
On going |
Carolyn
Tinner
Email Project Manager |
|
Dallas
Water Wise
Tour |
Hosting a
Master Gardener Information Desk and Docent through gardens at UTRWD |
As needed |
Linda
Williams
Email Project Manager |
|
DCLA Youth
Fair |
Each spring, during the
last full week of March, the Denton County Livestock Association sponsors
a youth fair at the North Texas Fair Grounds. The contestants come from
the various 4H, FFA, and FCCLA groups in the County. This show has
divisions ranging from agriculture to horticulture. The DCMGA is
responsible for the horticulture division or show.
DCMGA provides
the superintendent, the judges, sets the date for tag-in, and is
responsible for registering all entries. Tag-in is on a Saturday at the
beginning of February in order to allow for maximum development of the
plants, which fall into 10 categories: flowering, trailers and vines,
foliage, bulbs, succulents, dish gardens, herbs, hanging plants, bonsai
and ferns. Only one entry per category is allowed but a contestant may
enter all categories, provided he pays the fee. Each entry is
registered and documented at tag-in. Tag-in requires 2 registrars, 2
photographers, and 2 advisors. The advisors discuss the plants with the
entrants and give them a handbook designed by the Superintendent and
John Cooper, Horticulturist, formerly with Texas AgriLife Extension.
This handbook serves as a guide for managing the plant to obtain the
best result by show time, which is the fourth Thursday in March. The
Wednesday before the show in March, the Superintendent is responsible
for the official registration of entrees and the setting up of the
display of plants, which is separated into a junior and senior division
based on the age of the contestant. The superintendent also devises
a rotation schedule so that no one disturbs the entrees before or after
judging. The judges award ribbons for first, second, third, and fourth
places, as well as grand and reserve champions and a certificate for
best in show. At the conclusion of the show on Friday, DCMGA releases
the plants and takes down the exhibit. This project is manned by 6
trainee volunteers, the Superintendent, and the 3 DCMGA judges.
Supporting youth endeavors is a part of the mission of Texas AgriLife
Extension.
(click
for more 2010 details) |
Tag in:
February 13, 2010;
Check in: March 24, 25 &
26, 2010 |
Lynda Harvey
Susan Kilpatrick
Email Project Manager |
|
DCSWCD Tree
Seedling
Distribution |
Help
distribute seedling to Denton County residents who purchased these
seedlings. |
February
2010 |
Barbara
Cramer
Email Project Manager |
|
Demonstration Garden |
Design &
construct demo garden to showcase Earthkind Roses & Texas native plants to
collect research data & enabling garden. |
TBD |
Cindy Reese
Email Project Manager |
|
Fairoaks
Senior Independent Living Center |
Partner with
Boy Scouts and local Garden Club to improve living areas at center for low
income seniors. Tasks include general cleanup, plan outdoor living area
and improve pond area. Provide educational opportunity for residents,
staff, volunteers and families. (click
for more details) |
See calendar
for dates and times |
Barbara
Burgin
Email Project Manager |
|
Flower Mound Arboretum
|
|
In the
Planning Stages |
|
|
Flower Mound
Community
Garden |
Help develop
community garden on Green Acres property off Simmons Road. |
In the
Planning Stages |
Susan Dawson |
|
Flower
Mound Environmental Fair |
Feature
composting and environmentally friendly plants for N Texas including
Earthkind Roses and Texas Superstars at Master Gardener Booth. |
May 15,
2010 |
Lynda
Harvey
Email Project Manager |
|
Garden InfoFest |
Educational
& informational fund raiser offering horticulture related workshops,
children’s activities, publications, DCMGA merchandise, plants for sale &
vendor merchandise to the public. |
Fall 2010 |
NEED PROJECT
MANAGER
Email Project Manager |
|
Garden
Tour and Plant Sale
|
Garden Tour - Various
Locations in Denton County.
Help show
Denton County Residents the different types of gardens they can have in
their own yards.
Volunteers
needed to: (1) prepare the garden for tour day, (2) to be docents and
helpers for the garden locations during the tour.
Work Days:
Scheduled prior to tour day by each garden team leader according to garden
contract & then for Tour Day-see UPDATES for garden work days. |
May 8, 2010
9am - 3pm |
Carolyn
Tinner
Susan
Loos
Plant Sale
- Shirley Manfredi
Education -
Mary Morrow
Email Project Manager |
|
Plant Sale - Location
varies. Plants are donated by MG's. Help needed to dig/repot, transport
donations, compile plant lists, help with sales at plant sale the day of
the Garden tour. |
|
Education - 'Diggin' Deeper
Demos' - Location varies. Educational demonstrations are located at each
of the gardens presented by DC Master Gardeners. The topics are
based on educational aspects of each garden or project on the Garden Tour.
Master Gardeners develop and present the Diggin' Deeper Demos. |
|
Help Desk |
Extension
Office in Denton
Assist
county residents identify& solve their landscape and gardening problems or
answer their questions either in person or via telephone. Help maintain
the resource library and volunteer records. |
Ongoing
|
Elizabeth
Snapp
Janie Farler
Email Project Manager
|
|
Junior
Master Gardener Program (JMG)
S.W.A.T. |
Coordinate
implementation of JMG into county schools and other children’s programs as
requested. All Outdoor Learning Areas at schools are coordinated
thru JMG/S.W.A.T. |
As needed |
Jennie Estes
Susan
Kilpatrick
Email Project Manager |
|
Keep Argyle Beautiful Festival |
|
|
Shelli Stone
Email Project Manager |
|
Keep
Lewisville Beautiful - Smartscape |
Speakers at
this event which will focus on organic gardening. It will be held at Upper
Trinity. |
|
Speaker's
Bureau |
|
LISDOLA
|
LISD
Outdoor Learning Area
Fishtrap
Road off Highway 121 in Lewisville
All LISD 4th
Graders & many others take field trips to the area’s many trails and 3
portable buildings. Master Gardeners have designed & installed landscape
around the portable buildings including a wildscape habitat, butterfly
larval host plant garden, a wildflower area, a pond, rose , shade and herb
gardens, grass demonstration area and a bird feeding station. Over 250
kinds of plants have been planted.
Volunteers
needed to: (1) mulch, (2) weed,(3) water in summer,(4) plant propagation,
(5) trail maintenance, (6) painting, (7) maintain signs, (8) donate any
native plants (9) design & plant new gardens (10) be docents as required. |
On hold
|
Email Project Manager
|
|
Little
Hands
on the Farm |
Refresh the
START BARN for LHOF at State Fair each year and participate in helping
children go through the Farm during State Fair.
Work Days
at Fair: Prior to Fair Opening to refurbish Start Barn; one weekday & one
Saturday during the Fair to work on The Farm. |
Fall 2010
Ongoing |
Clarice
Luce
Email Project Manager |
|
Red Bud Days Booth |
Display
educational information & answer questions for public & sale MG
merchandise at annual Red Bud Days. Located on Courthouse on Square Lawn,
Denton. |
|
Susan
Dawson
Email Project Manager |
|
Riding the
Rails |
Educational
one-day event for 30 at-risk elementary students who will visit Jenny
Estes' garden and ride to 5 learning stations for reading, math and
science on her garden train. |
May 2010 |
Jenny Estes
Evelyn
McMillen
Email Project Manager |
|
Speakers Bureau |
Various
Locations in Denton County as requested
Share your
knowledge and passion for gardening. Many associations want speakers for
their meetings or special events. Volunteers do not need to be experts!
Training provided. |
On going |
Annie
Brackin
Email Project Manager |
|
Upper Trinity
Regional
Water District
(UTRWD) |
Has asked
that MG's come back to visit the demonstration gardens and make
recommendations on what needs to be replaced and what to replace it with.
Other recommendations as seen fit.
|
|
Linda
Williams
Email Project Manager |
|
Vegetable Flower Herb Fruit
Show |
Provide
opportunity for Denton County residents to enter their fruits, vegetables,
cut or potted herbs, arrangements for judging. |
June 19,
2010 |
Maurine
LeBeau
Email Project Manager |
|
Watershed
Advanced
Training
|
Upper Trinity
and Dottie Woodson will train and have up to 15 MG's from Denton County
trained to give presentations and docent tours of UTRWD
gardens. |
As needed |
Linda
Williams
Email Project Manager
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