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Home and Consumer Horticulture, Master Gardeners
Home and Consumer Horticulture
Heisdorffer
Home & Consumer Horticulture
Master Gardener
Urban Environments (water issues)
Pesticide Safety – Plant Pests
The horticultural industry is experiencing the popularity of gardening again. Gardening trend reports indicate that millennials are interested in growing some of their own fruits and vegetables. With the Millennials living in urban areas and the Baby Boomers downsizing, raised bed and container gardens allow them to grow fresh produce in small spaces.
Another trend is to protect pollinators. This was one of the issues identified by the County Extension Council as important and needs to be addressed in our community. When needed, understanding how to use pesticides correctly is a step in the right direction to help protect pollinators and the environment.
- Clientele will make informed decisions in the area of implementation of cultural practices and proper pesticide usage to manage food production and maintain the landscape to minimize environmental impact.
- Extension Master Gardeners continue to be a valuable resource of research based information for the community as volunteers for the Cooperative Extension Service.
- Insect pollinators will be protected and preserved in the community to ensure pollination of flowers to encourage a diversity of species in the community and to maintain fruit and vegetable production in home gardens.
- Pesticides will be used and properly and handled carefully.
- Homeowner will manage storm water on their properties with rain barrels.
- Pest management decisions will be made to protect the environment.
- Extension Master Gardeners will adopt at least 2 practices from the Master Gardener training in their own garden and landscape.
- Extension Master Gardeners will conduct a soil test and understand the results on the report.
- Participants in programs will protect pollinators in their landscape and garden.
- Individuals will grow plant species that benefit insect pollinators
- Individuals participating in the rain barrel program will build a rain barrel.
- Extension Master Gardeners will learn how to collect soil for a soil test and will gain knowledge on how to understand the results.
- Extension Master Gardeners will learn how to read and comprehend directions for applying pesticides.
- Participants will recall the different parts of a pesticide label.
- Individuals will learn how to protect pollinators.
- Participants in programs will gain knowledge on how to develop a pollinator garden.
- Individuals will gain knowledge on how to manage plant pests including diseases and insects in the vegetable garden and landscape.
- Participants will learn about the benefits of using a rain barrel and how to make one.
Evaluation:
Indicator: Initial
Outcome: Participants in programs will gain knowledge on how to develop a pollinator garden and the plants to include in the garden
Method: Pre-post test written survey
Timeline: March 2019
Evaluation:
Indicator: Intermediate
Outcome: Extension Master Gardeners will adopt at least 2 practices from the Extension Master Gardener Training in their own garden.
Method: Self reporting survey, observation
Timeline: May 2018
Evaluation:
Indicator: Intermediate
Outcome: Over half the reporting participants of the Rain Barrel Workshops will use their barrels.
Method: Post program survey
Timeline: July/August 2018
Audience: Gardeners
Project or Activity: Managing Disease and Insect Pests in the Vegetable Garden and Landscape while protecting the environment and pollinators.
Content or Curriculum: UK home vegetable gardening information, handling pesticides safely, reading a pesticide label, and ENTFACTS.
Inputs: Horticulture Agent
Date: Summer/Fall 2018, Winter/Spring 2019
Audience: Homeowners
Project or Activity: Rain barrel workshop
Content or Curriculum: UK publication
Inputs: Specialists, Horticulture Agent, Horticulture Technician
Date: July 2019
Audience: Gardeners and Homeowners
Project or Activity: Gardening to encourage and sustain pollinators.
Content or Curriculum: Information from UK entomologists
Inputs: Horticulture Agent
Date: February/March 2019
Audience: General Public
Project or Activity: UK Flower Trial Demonstration Garden
Content or Curriculum: UK Information
Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Extension Master Gardeners
Date: May through September 2018
Audience: Home Gardeners
Project or Activity: Home vegetable gardening programs including growing different types of lettuce
Content or Curriculum: UK Raised Bed Gardening information and Home Vegetable Growing guide
Inputs: Agent, Extension Master Gardeners, and Horticulture Technician
Date: January - April 2018
Audience: General Public
Project: Growing vegetable transplants
Content or Curriculum: UK information
Inputs: Use Master Gardener seed library, Horticulture Agent, Extension Master Gardeners
Date: January/February 2019
Audience: Extension Master Gardeners
Project or Activity: Continuing Education on Horticulture topics
Content or Curriculum: UK Information
Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Horticulture technician, Master Gardeners, Community Gardeners
Date: July 2018-June 2019
Author: Annette Heisdorffer
Major Program: Master Gardener
Daviess County has a thriving Extension Master Gardener Program with 60 members contributing 7,181 hours of community service in 2018 by consulting with individuals, conducting classes, assisting agents with programs, and helping to maintain the local botanical garden. With the expertise of the Extension Master Gardeners, Extension Agent for Horticultural Education, and the Daviess County Public Library, the Seed Library was developed for Daviess County residents. The purpose of the
Author: Annette Heisdorffer
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Consumers prefer to have the choice of growing the specific vegetable or flower variety they want. For example, some heirloom varieties of tomatoes are not available at local nurseries. This leaves the growing of the transplant to the consumer. In addition, many seeds are available to Daviess County Citizens through the Seed Library developed by the partnership of the Green River Area Extension Master Gardeners and Daviess County Public Library. To fos
Author: Annette Heisdorffer
Major Program: Bees/Beekeeping
Honeybees play a vital role in the production of many fruit and vegetable crops by serving as pollinators. Beekeeping as a hobby has increased due to the awareness of the importance of the honeybee in pollination, to protect the pollinator, and for the honey. Some people want the benefit of the bees in their own home garden. With the popularity of beekeeping increasing, a “Beginning Beekeeping” class with three sessions was hosted by the Agent for Horticulture Education a
Author: Annette Heisdorffer
Major Program: Master Gardener
Extension Master Gardener volunteers deliver science-based horticultural information to help clientele grow and maintain vegetable gardens and landscape plants. They are a vital part of the outreach of the Cooperative Extension Service into the community. In addition, the Extension Master Gardeners seek this opportunity to fulfill their goal of helping others in the community through sharing gardening knowledge gained through the program. A total of 51 active Extension Master Garden
