The state requirements for educational and volunteer hours are back in place now, you are required to get 6 education hours and 20 volunteer hours. Phone duty is now optional. Be sure to record them on the LMG reporting site. Stay tuned for more information.
Educational Opportunities
Master Gardener General Meetings
Listed below are some examples of 2024 programs and topics at our Master Gardener Meetings. WOW! Another good reason to never miss a General Meeting! You can count 30 minutes for education hours for the speaker at each meeting.
2024: January - Grant Presentations, Michele Wiener February - LeTour overview of homes for 2024 March - Sarepta Brown Cotton, Tony Mullins April - Graduation of the 2024 MG Class 2023: May - Jill Beebee: Native Plants and Pollinators June - July - Bulb "Speed dating" Learn about the bulbs that will be sold at the October Bulb Sale, 2023 August - September - October - November - December - Christmas Party Jill Bebee, NWLAMG, spoke to the membership at the May 2023 meeting about Native Plants in a very informative presentation. She gave a handout with a great listing of resources for futher information.
Bulb, Corms, and Tubers, Oh My!
Presentation by Mary L. Dumars, Advanced Master Gardener 30 minute educational hours To view, see the Slide show at the bottom of the page. Ways to Earn Education Hours
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR HOURS
ONLINE RESOURCES
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MOVIES
Take a look at some of these facebook groups – you can find many educational articles on South Louisiana gardening
RADIO
Louisiana Master Gardener Continuing Education Suggestions YouTube Channels LSU AgCenter – Gardening Channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuNFvoHC-if7f1NYpB-aMwQqNgP3Zq037 MS State Extension Service – Southern Gardening – Dr. Gary Bachman https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF865C9FF9960D0DC Arkansas Division of Agriculture – Blackberries https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzwlawVM4o4HtqqoP8ZMEBpcwEqmTq3hb Arkansas Division of Agriculture – Fruit Pruning Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzwlawVM4o4GtaH7F03kf8HoV0UACp0LM University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences – Gardening Solutions Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnrETfHgIug6UuU-aAlevLinrq9wAIxT The Dallas Arboretum – Plant Features https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLNCVFwhO0A_Juu3KzI-e6uTUVP_fFD9T The Dallas Arboretum – Drought and Heat Tolerant https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLNCVFwhO0A-7yLXTGy89G1LDSUVv0XcK The Dallas Arboretum – Plant Lab Live https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLNCVFwhO0A9J70tzkETPd6ZpVoR9iWh7 The Dallas Arboretum – Plant Tips https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLNCVFwhO0A-5y3-f78JPT3pVQfU104c4 Clack County Oregon – Master Gardeners: 10 Minute University https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZEzoOaZqnfoVPUYtXji6wgWSrpzS6l7b Extension Publications LSU AgCenter - Lawn and Garden Publications https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/communications/publications/publications_catalog/lawn%20and%20garden Mississippi State Extension Service - Lawn and Garden Publications http://extension.msstate.edu/lawn-and-garden University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences – Gardening Solutions Pub. Directory https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/ Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service – Landscaping Publications https://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/library/landscaping/ University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service – Yard and Garden Resources https://www.uaex.edu/yard-garden/default.aspx August 17, 2019
A great day at the Red River Research Station where the community and Master Gardeners evaluated the Superplants in the Superplant gardens followed by a presentation by Dr. Paul W. Wilson, father of our own Mark Wilson who spoke on What To Do with Your Bountiful Harvest June 12, 2019
Emilie Harmeyer was our speaker for the 1/2 hour education program. She spoke about the Shreveport Green Mobile Market and easy worm composting. March 13, 2019
Helen Herzog presented our ½ hour education program today. She gave us a glimpse of the beautiful properties that will the featured on this year Le Tour des Jardins. We were happy to be back in the Randle T. Moore Center! February 13, 2019
We had a great presentation by Ron Killingsworth from Plantation Point Nursery in Mooringsport, LA on Caddo Lake. Ron is a propagator of Louisiana Iris and a member of the SLI. November 2018
Dr. Beverly Burden, Associate Professor at LSUS and Entomologist informed the Master Gardener about the world of insects in our gardens. You can hear her on the third Tuesday of each month on KDAQ FM or you might know it as Red River Radio. Her show is called "What's bugging You." She let us know that she loves to talk about insects! And, that "All insects are bugs but all bugs are not insects." If a caterpillar is hairy-don't handle it, you will be injected with poison! We saw and heard about leafminers, sucking insects like aphids, leafhoppers, scales, spider mites, white flies, earwigs, weevils, gall formers and mealy bugs (not what you grew up calling roly polies. Mealy bugs have one antennae and roly polies have two antennae. And of course, as gardeners, we know that there are good bugs and bad bugs. Some stink bugs feed on plants and some feed on other insects. And of course, Dr. Burden said the most dangerous insect in the world is the mosquito! They can carry so many diseases that kill and incapacitate their victims. The presentation was great and Dr. Burden aka," The Bug Doc" was very entertaining. If you have questions about insects or pictures you would like to have identified, you can email Dr. Burden at [email protected] October 2018
John Terrell, LSU AgCenter Assistant Extension Agent, instructed and entertained the Master Gardeners at the October 2018 meeting with a presentation titled "The Fall Gardener" Planning for your garden, you must evaluate, replant and plant, decided what you need/want/can get.The maintenance areas are the flower beds, garden, landscape and the lawn. Maintenance includes cleaning out the beds, cutting back perennials and deadheading, pruning shrubs and cutting out dead and diseased branches. In order to winterize, a gardener needs to 'Wack the weeds' and kill the fungus with a fungicide. Next step - bed prep. Do you use mulch, leaves or pine straw? Do you want to go organic and use gin trash, compost, peat moss, ground bark and/or manure? Fall is the best time to plant trees and shrubs, so you need to have a plan! Good cool season vegetables are cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, pumpkins, turnips, greens including chard, collards, mustard, spinach and lettuce, garlic and strawberries. |
Volunteer Opportunities
To SEE the NWLAMG Phone Duty calendar, click here
If you want to work the phones at the RRRS and need to be added to the calendar, please contact Melissa Elrod by text, phone or email. Phone duty volunteers are particularly needed prior to events to answer questions about the events and in the case of Le Tour, to sell tickets. Click on the link below Record your Educational and Volunteer hours here How do you classify your volunteer activities? Civic & Community Activities is where you record plant sales, Le Tour, helping with a field day for community gardens. Think of it as ‘Events’. Remember to make a ‘guesstimate’ of how many folks are at the event and enter it as Total Number of People Reached. Extension Activities are what you do here at the office that makes our home base and our programs run smoothly: working in the gardens, answering the phone, prepping or setting up for the sales and events. (More information below...) Notification of changes to LMG Reporting Site The changes apply ONLY to the Volunteer Service reporting. Type of Service (2 options): Volunteer Service OR Continuing Education Just a brief reminder on the distinction between the two: - Volunteer Service includes those activities where you are educating others. - Continuing Education includes educational programs and activities where you are being educated. Activity (6 options): Choose the activity title that best fits the volunteer service activity. Project (*NEW*): Choose the project description that best fits the volunteer service activity completed. Note: If none of the project description categories describe the activity, please select “Not Applicable” Parish (*NEW*): Select the parish in which the volunteer service activity was completed. Note: The ability to specify a parish offers the ability to provide more detailed impacts when submitting local, state, and federal reports. The need had arisen for LMG associations comprised of multiple parishes to have a better way to document which projects and programs were being conducted in specific parishes. Selecting a specific parish will NOT impact total volunteer service hours calculated at the end of the calendar year for the 29 active Louisiana Master Gardener groups and associations. Activity Description/Impact: Please provide a brief statement on the volunteer service activity completed. Date Completed: Select the date you completed your service on from the above calendar by clicking in the textbox and then clicking on the appropriate date on the calendar. Number of Service Hours: Enter the number of volunteer service hours dedicated to this project or program. Mass Contacts (*NEW*): This box should be used for recording the number of contacts attending large events (plant sales, plant/garden fest, garden seminar, expo, etc.) For example, let’s say your LMG association hosts a large spring garden seminar and 1,500 attend the event. Those 1,500 individuals should be entered into Mass Contacts. Additionally, if you know that the project chair (or another individual) is planning to report 1,500 into the system, you may enter “0” (zero) into this field. The ability to distinguish between Mass Contacts and Individual Contacts will result in more accurate data reported in local, state, and federal reports we (LSU AgCenter employees) have to submit.
Each Northwest Louisiana Master Gardener committee is an opportunity for volunteering.
While some are really just one person on the committee, most of them have many members. Listed below are committees that are always ready for new members and volunteers! Northwest Louisiana Master Gardener Spring Plant Sale
Red River Research Station April 6, 2024 Annual Spring Plant Sale Director John Oswalt, Co-chair, Cynthia Rowell Northwest Louisiana Master Gardeners Fall Bulb Sale October 26, 2024 Red River Research Station Directors, Twyla Stubblefield and Mary Dumars Bulb Committee members digging red spider lilies
Red River Research Station, Super Plant Garden
Andre Caplis Chairman The garden is beautiful, but the work at the Red River Research Station is far from over. Mark Wilson has sent out a call for Master Gardeners to continue work at the Northwest Louisiana Master Gardeners Super Plant Research Garden. Watch your email for more information for times and days. This service will count toward your volunteer hours! BYW..This garden looks beautiful! But the weeds never stop growing. HELP! After working and weeding in August at the super plant beds, we are hot and messy but we can still laugh!
Remember "Many hands make lite work!" Propagation Team
Greenhouse Sadie Bolyer, Chairman NWLAMG Class
Director, Sadie Bolyer Rambling Rose Project
Director Larry Williams, Secretary Melissa Elrod American Rose Center on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 8:30 (Drive to the back and take a right at the fork in the road) Speakers Bureau
Director Mary Dumars Travel Committee
Director
Community Gardens Director Jennifer Donner Programs
Director Mary Dumars Community Grants
Director Michele Wiener Phone Duty: Contact Melissa Elrod
Can you help? Every Master Gardener is important to man the phones when events are upcoming at the Red River Research Station Master Gardener Office. The community calls the office to find out when the events are, where they can purchase tickets or to buy tickets. If you are manning the phones and someone wants to purchase tickets, you can sell YOUR tickets. In the spring, you can answer questions gardeners may have. Times that are really needed are a week or two prior to the annual plant sale, Le Tour des Jardins, and the annual bulb sale. Any master gardener who needs hours or who wants a day to chat up other gardeners can do so by serving phone duty in the MG Office. The calendar is now online on this very page! You can see it by clicking on this link. You need to sign up at the Red River Research Station, call 408-0984 or contact Melissa Elrod. Northwest Louisiana Master Gardeners Field Day to Plantation Point Nursery in Mooringsport, Louisiana
April 22, 2017 Thanks to Ron Killingsworth, SLI An awesome educational experience! Such a beautiful gem on Caddo Lake and such a knowledgeable Iris propagator! Slide Show Presentations
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