Over the past 20 years the Boyd County Horticulture Agent has grown a holiday wreath workshop for 10-12 people into a holiday wreath program production that serves over 700 people from the tri-state area of Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.  This year there were even participants that were in town from Florida and Alaska that had hear about this program for several years from family members in the area that had made plans to be in town so that they could participate in this program.  Those that come to learn how to make a wreath also learned about the types of greenery that are best for holiday wreath making as well as how to identify not only the tree species but also how to identify praying mantis egg cases and cedar apple rust overwintering galls and how to help prevent the disease from spreading.  The 4-H program is also involved with the wreath making and this year there were 175 youth that were able to decorate a holiday wreath for their home. The program has also been very beneficial to some of the addiction recovery programs and the adult traumatic brain injury programs as a holiday outing for their residents.   This has been a great source for the Extension Office to advertise about other programs we offer and this year alone we had 15 people sign up for the Master Gardener Course which starts in January after watching the Boyd County Master Gardeners volunteer to help make this a county-wide and tri-state area success.