• Works with the Town of Argyle to beautify the recently opened park
• Educates the public about drought-tolerant and heat-tolerant plants
• Educates the public about Texas native plants

• Coordinates volunteers and materials for “Ask A Master Gardener” booths as requested by the public or DCMGA events, such as the Keep Flower Mound Beautiful Environmental Fair in May

• Location:  Denton Historic Park at Mulberry and Carroll Streets, Denton
• Supports period-appropriate landscape for the Victorian home and other structures
• Conducts garden tours
• Presents programs
• Year round as needed

• Cultivates and demonstrates an agroforestry system of plant-based food production
• Educates the public about the land and its variety of natural resources
• Connects the vital roles between the land, plant life, wild life and people in search for a sustainable and balanced ecosystem
• Increases community awareness of agroforestry through Earth-Kind® and permaculture practices
• Engages the public through events and demonstrations
• Collaborates with Global Spheres Center

• Assists Tarrant County Master Gardeners in the maintenance of gardens
• Supports ongoing educational programs
• Helps with annual butterfly release in the fall

• Teaches children and their families gardening techniques
• Supports education with hands-on experiences at this garden site
• Encourages families to replicate gardens at their homes
• Harvests from these gardens are entered into the Fruit, Vegetable, Herb & Flower Show competition
• Location: Fair Oaks Sr. Independent Living Community (1950 Lattimore, Denton).
  
• March — June

• Provides information, training, and demonstrations to interested groups/organizations on how to initiate, administer, and sustain community gardens.

• Bags tree seedlings and distributes to third-graders in schools across Denton County
• Presents information on tree care
• October

• Distributes seedlings to Denton County residents who have made purchases through the Denton County Soil & Water Conservation District
• February

• Works with Denton County leaders in the development and maintenance of a demonstration grove of fruits and nuts
• Educates the community on home fruit production through classes at the grove

• Location: 317 West Mulberry, Denton, TX
• Refurbishes the gardens around existing buildings
• Works with Denton County in the development, landscaping and maintenance of gardens, pathways, orchards, and trees as additional historical buildings, walkways and fencing are added
• Provides knowledge, ideas, and educational opportunities for the historical park, including soil preparation, plant selection and identification, landscape design, demonstration garden preparation and water conservation

• Supports the Youth Fair Horticulture Division for the annual competitive event with registering and judging entries
• January — March
• Includes the Horticulture Workshop
  • Teaches 4H members about various horticultural topics
  • Demonstrates these topics using a hands-on component

• Provides research-based education on Earth-Kind® practices and landscape design principles and step-by-step exercises for participants to create landscape designs for their own yards.
• The multi-session course is open to the public and DCMGA members for a fee.
• Offered once or twice a year
• Location varies.

• Educates the community on native plants.
• Educates the community on pollinator garden and benefits of butterflies.
• Conducts tree talks highlighting tree varieties, pruning, proper planting and maintenance.

• Location: 1901 Timber Creek Rd., Flower Mound (on Morriss Road between FM 407 and Main Street)  (map)
• Plant and harvest fresh produce for donation to CCA
• Assist church garden volunteers in learning water-wise and best choice garden practices to maximize yields
• Educate and assist local area residents who want to grow their own gardens
• Serve as a garden educational and demonstration resource for the area, including with scout troops, LISD students and special needs students
• Time of year – year round, work days scheduled as needed

• Builds and helps to maintain over 50 gardens for the senior center which covers 2.5 acres
• Conducts classes, lecture, demonstrations & hands-on activities, for residents and their families
• Hosts and supports DCMGA’s Children’s Garden located here
• Year-round

• Provides educational opportunities for the public featuring speakers, demos, and informational booths
• Includes vendor booths for the public to purchase garden-themed items
• Location: First United Methodist Church of Denton
• October (the traditional date is second Saturday)

• Provides research-based educational presentations and programs to the Flower Mound area
• Presentations are open to the public and DCMGA members on a wide range of topics.
• Weekly for four weeks in the spring
• Presentations at Flower Mound Library and Flower Mound Senior Center
  

• Location: 1650 Nottingham Drive, Denton  (map)
• Plant, maintain and harvest fresh produce for donation to multiple local organizations
• Assist other volunteers in learning water-wise and best choice garden practices to maximize yield
• Offer educational opportunities on an as-needed basis
• Serve as an educational and demonstration resource for the Denton County area
• Time of year – Year round, work days scheduled as needed

• Provides opportunities for the public to show fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers from their home gardens
• June

• Provides to the public opportunities to visit DCMGA members’ and public gardens
• Features gardening demonstrations
• Supports gardens by helping them to become “tour ready”
• Supplies docents on tour day
• 2nd Saturday in May

• Explores the feasibility of a mobile classroom to be used throughout the county
• Partners with Texas Master Naturalist, Master Wellness, and other county entities
• Plans to offer a menu of educational and engaging AgriLife-based topics

• Assists approved organizations with landscape planning
• Provides training for DCMGA members
• Addresses the wide variety of soil types, ongoing drought conditions & capricious nature of our climate using water-wise plantings, low maintenance, Texas natives, and elements of design

• Provides research-based educational presentations and programs to the greater Aubrey area of Denton County
• Presentations are open to the public including DCMGA members
• Topics include vegetable gardening, horticulture, herbs, tree care, water conservation, and native plantings, just to name a few
• Presentations occur monthly for three months in the winter and three months in the fall

• Supports the restoration and preservation of the 13-acre property’s native wildflower prairie
• Helps catalog plants
• Assists with public education and outreach through nature hikes and the Monarch way station
• Helps restore and develop wetland areas
• Helps create interpretive signage and publicity materials
• Collaborates with Flower Mound Parks and Recreation, Texas Master Naturalists – Elm Fork Chapter (TMN-EFC), Keep Flower Mound Beautiful (KFMB), Native Plant Society of Texas – Trinity Forks Chapter (NPSOT-TFC), and Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Center (LLELA)

• Researches answers to questions submitted by the public via the DCMGA Help Desk
• Trains new Help Desk volunteers
• Assures sufficient Help Desk coverage

• Makes presentations to DCMGA members and public on propagating, planting, harvesting and using herbs
• Monthly meetings

• Provides the planning, implementation, management, and evaluation for annual class to train new Master Gardeners
• Plans class curriculum, recruits, and works with visiting instructors, and manages all logistics
• Creates, implements and manages all aspects of Intern online testing & evaluation
• Provides ongoing support and guidance to interns, including supportive actions for class and service hour requirements and graduation.
• Plans and coordinates the Mentor Program for the new intern class
  • Assigns a volunteer mentor for each intern
  • Plans mentor/intern events, such as lunches and other activities, throughout the year

• Supports the restoration and preservation of the 1-acre property’s native wildlife prairie
• Provides public education on native plants and animals
• Increases community awareness of pollinator plants and their use in an urban garden
• Engages the public for the annual autumn Monarch migration
• Collaborates with City of Carrollton Parks and Recreation Department and Texas Master Naturalists – Elm Fork Chapter (TMN-EFC)

• Supports LLELA (Lake Lewisville Environmental Learning Area), the unique ecosystem where the Blackland Prairie and the Eastern Cross Timbers meet
• Helps uphold LLELA’s mission to preserve and restore native Texas ecosystems and biodiversity while providing opportunities for environmental education, research, and recreation
• Helps propagate native Texas plants
• Assists in prairie restoration (replanting over 2000 acres with more than 500 native plant species)
• Maintains a pocket pollinator garden
• Weekly on Wednesdays from 8:45 am – noon

• Coordinates order and delivery of roses from chosen vendor for DCMGA members

• Provides assistance in site selection, preparing the site, installing milkweed and nectar plants, and annual or semi-annual maintenance of monarch butterfly waystations in the Tribute community on Lake Lewisville in The Colony and on the walking trail along Lebanon Road
• Educates the community on the importance of protecting the monarch migration through the use of milkweed and nectar plants
• Provides the STEM school in the community a hands-on learning environment
• May provide assistance with editing grant applications

• Provides education on native bees and their care to Master Gardeners and the public
• Assists Master Gardeners and the public with care and maintenance of native bees
• Provides habitats and bees to parks and community gardens that could use the pollinators

• Provides tools for DCMGA members to identify plants in Denton County landscapes and wild areas
• Conducts hands-on small group training utilizing binomial nomenclature to identify plant families
• Increases knowledge of Water University’s top 100 native and adaptive plants of North Texas
• Utilizes plant identification knowledge to determine plant selections, care, pruning and propagation techniques

• Makes presentations on propagating by air-layering, leaf cutting, stem cutting, seed starting, and root division
• Hands-on training in the art and science of plant propagation
• Provides one-day, hands-on training to new class members in all areas of propagation

• Provides commercially grown, “pass-along” plants from Master Gardeners, and Propagation Team plants for sale to the public
• Answers questions by the public about plants
• Educational demonstrations
• Largest DCMGA fundraiser
• Location: Trinity United Methodist Church (Hobson Ln. @ Teasley Ln., Denton)
• April/ May

• Makes and distributes the latest research on Rose Rosette Disease to DCMGA membership and Denton County residents
• Organizes and shares information about events on RRD
• Shares educational articles on dcmga.com
• Works with Speakers Bureau to share the latest information

• Utilizing researched-based curricula, SWAt’s Educational Outreach Program provides individualized supplemental education on a variety of horticultural and environmental science topics for classrooms and other educational and community venues
• Offers annual Professional Development Workshops for teachers and parent volunteers from area public and private schools, and home-based education programs
• Provides support to schools in developing Outdoor Learning Centers
• Provides Continuing Education opportunities for volunteers at monthly planning meetings
• Year-round
• See the SWAt:  Science with Attitude Educational Outreach page.

• Receives speaking requests from the community
• Provides research-based educational presentations and programs to community organizations

• Provides demonstrations and presentations to DCMGA members and the public to help develop succulent-savvy gardeners
• Educates and informs about succulent identification, selection, growth, and propagation
• Meets bi-monthly
  

• Helps to restore an outdoor learning area at Heritage Elementary School, LISD
• Conducts hands-on activities & demonstrations for the students/teachers
• Teaches & leads in the horticultural area of caring for native plants
• Works in a partnership of Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists, Boy Scouts, & the Heritage ES community
• Time of year: As needed

• Provides educational information to DCMGA members and the public on tree planting, care, and problem diagnosis
• Assists citizens in diagnosing and treating tree problems at the request of the DCMGA Help Desk or County Extension Agent
• Team members receive focused training on tree diseases and insect damage identification and treatment
• Visits homes in the county whose owners are experiencing problems with their trees
• No regular monthly meetings

• Assists, mentors, advises and works with the faculty and students of the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design, Fiber Studio Arts
• Provides Earth-Kind® information and assists with planting, propagating, and maintaining the current dye garden
• Assists with developing, researching, creating, and maintaining a second roof-top dye garden on the newly constructed Visual Arts building
• Members learn about fiber and paper dyeing with natural dyes through lectures, workshops, and tours of the gardens.
• Regular meetings

• Shares water conservation information and techniques with Denton County residents
• Develops presentations and water conservation demonstrations for DCMGA sponsored events, public events supported by DCMGA and in response to requests made through the DCMGA Speaker’s Bureau
• Regular monthly meetings

Task

Description

 Committee Chair

• Organizes and conducts a one-day event offering a variety of classes for members to obtain multiple advanced training hours 

• Conducts an audit of the financial records in January and reports to the general membership at the next general meeting
• Reviews the financial records after the first quarter of a new treasurer’s term to assure accounting records are correct

• Responsible for completing the application forms for the State Awards
• Applications are submitted to the CEA-Horticulture after board approval

•  Plans and implements the annual DCMGA Christmas party

• Organizes DCMGA member plant exchange event, an educational event that allows DCMGA members to share information on what plants thrive in North Texas and exchange plants from their gardens  
• Held annually, in the fall, before the September general meeting

•  Plans and implements celebration dinner for:
  • Annual Awards
  • Latest Class Graduation
  • Installation of Officers

• Aids DCMGA projects in identifying potential funding sources when initiated by the project manager
• Assists in writing and editing grants
• Supports members who need help writing and polishing a grant request

• Arranges setup of the room for monthly association meeting, including coffee, water, tea, paper products
• Coordinates other refreshments for general meetings
• Purchases needed supplies (receipts to be turned in to treasurer)
• May consult with projects regarding coordination of refreshments for special events

• Schedules programs for the monthly membership meeting from March – February (of the following year)

• Registers DCMGA for North Texas Giving Day
• Promotes DCMGA and their programs up to and during North Texas Giving Day
• Organizes volunteers for Denton Donation Station held at the Denton County Courthouse and shares DCMGA information at this event with the public and other Denton County nonprofits
• Fall

• Responsible for assisting project managers and volunteers
• Assures that new and continuing projects support DCMGA mission
• Reports to the board on project status
• Annual approval of ongoing projects

• Supports project managers through ongoing communication and training

• Maintains the Resource Room for the use by the DCMGA membership

• Reviews the applicants for the Tom Harpool Scholarship and makes recommendations to the board

• Once notified that a member has experienced a serious illness, hospitalization, or death of an immediate family member, contacts affected member to determine need and privacy preference
• Ensures a card is sent on behalf of DCMGA
• Communicates member’s request for support to the group and/or the general membership
• In the event of the death of a member or immediate family member, notifies the DCMGA President
• The Chairman of the Sunshine Gardeners will receive Volunteer Service Hours, but the remainder of the group is ineligible for Service Hours

• Organizes all technology equipment stored in Resource Room
• Provides technology-related assistance for membership, as required

• Works with DCMGA Project Managers and Board Members to assure volunteer time and talent are used effectively

• Organizes an event which introduces or advertises projects that members can sign up for
• Usually in February