For Master Gardeners

Stanton Gill is opening his farm to us on May 10 from 1-4 PM. Visitors are limited to 40, and you must sign-up to visit. You can read a description of his farm. Directions to reach his farm are available. Use this sheet to sign-up for the visit.

Here's the list of our 2012 speakers who will give talks at our monthly meeting.

Montgomery County MGs visited and photographed many beautiful places during 2011. Sue Kuklewicz put together a spectacular slideshow of our collective travels.

Some general membership monthly meetings will be held at the Heritage building at the Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg. This is the same building where our holiday party is held. Directions to reach the building are available.

Here are the handouts for all the speaker's talks given at the 2011 fall miniconference.

If you are a member of the MG Speakers Group, be sure to look at all the materials that we have made available. In addition, you can reserve equipment such as laptops and projectors.

You can sign-up online to work the Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday Brookside Plant Clinic.

You can sign-up online to work the Twinbrook Plant Clinic on Saturdays.

You can sign-up online to work the Olney Plant clinic on Sundays.

You can sign-up online to work the Audubon Plant clinic on Saturdays.

You can sign-up online to work the telephone hotline that is held in the Ballard room.

The Landscape Design committee uses a site analysis checklist you may find useful.

Montgomery County MGs can obtain discounts at local nurseries by showing your badge.

Many of our committees hold meetings on a recurring basis.

We have created a file that contains all 200 Fact sheets that are publicly available in PDF format. The fact sheets are organized for your use into 11 categories. You can click on the link above and choose "Save." This will download the fact sheets to your computer. The download is very large and will take between 1-8 minutes if you have a broadband connection and more than 1 hour if you have dial-up. The file that you download is a zip file. Once you have finished downloading the file, double click it and choose "Extract all files." This will unzip the file and create 11 folders on your computer with all the fact sheets contained insides these folders. In addition, you will have an index for all 200 fact sheets, which was created by Bob Resnick. The index is also included in the zip file above.

We ask all speakers who present PowerPoints at our general membership meetings to provide us with a copy of their presentation. You can find those presentations here. They are generally Adobe PDF files, so you do not need PowerPoint to view them.

Heather Powers has created a website and posted photos of various MG activities on it. You can view these photos online at Flickr. If you have photos of MG activities that you would like to share with your fellow MGs, email the photos to Heather, and she will add them to our Flickr site.

If you'd like to find a MG with a specific skill, (e.g. knowledge about roses or turf or pests, etc.) who might be able to help you with a gardening problem, you can download our skills database. There are two identical versions of our database. Most of you will want to download the PDF version of the database. If you happen to have Excel on your computer, you may wish to download the Excel version of our database.

If you haven't filled out the survey to list your areas of gardening expertise, you can download the blank form and print it off. Once you've completed the form, please give it to Linda Waters. We will add you to our database.

You can download copies of our monthly newsletter.

We publish an annual report each year, which is available to you.

If you are trying to find an activity that will earn you hours, take a look at this list, which details every MG activity that occurs during the year. Each activity on the list enables you to earn hours for your green sheet. If you need a blank green sheet, you can download it to your computer and print it off.

We've listed the speakers who will make presentations at our upcoming (and past) monthly membership meetings.

If you're going to do work as a Master Gardener for an organization, they should first fill out this Letter of Compliance. The Letter should be returned to Steve.

You can communicate with approximately 3/4 of your fellow Montgomery County Master Gardeners by joining our Yahoo listserve.

There are three pages related to advanced training: the annual advanced training day at the University of Maryland, courses offered by the Maryland Master Gardener program, and courses offered at the Landscape Technology Program at Montgomery College.

Our annual holiday party is held in December at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds. Here are directions and a map to help you find the location.

A photo release form is available if you need to use photos taken of the public.

Current MGs may propose a new activity to count for green sheet hours by completing this form and submitting it to Steve Dubik.

Organizations making presentations to the Board of Directors should complete and return this form prior to the day they make their presentation to the Board.

Photos on this web site were taken by Susan Bell, Gary Cahn, Ann Dorsey, Martha Fisher, Sheryl Freishtat, Len Friedman, Gerri Hall, Barbara Knapp, Katherine Lambert, Frank Lostumbo, Heather Powers, and Don Wittig. Graphics were created by Don Wittig. Bebe McMeekin helps maintain the web site.

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Last updated: 05/3/2012