Back to "school"

This is an active group of people! At the Texas Master Gardeners Conference last year they were awarded three state prizes (a first, second & third for "medium size" county groups) one for their newsletter, one for a project that got kids involved in a landscaping project at the city park and I belive the third was for the Earthkind Rose Trial Garden in Mineola - only the second trial garden in the state. The county agent is responsible for the organization of the group and he tells us that the Wood county group is well known thoughout the state and beyond. There are between 50 and 60 members plus 20 in the class I'm in. I'll be attending a total of 50 hours in class and will be working 50 hours on Wood County Master Gardeners projects scattered throughout Wood county by the end of April. Upon completion of that, I'll receive the designation of Texas Certified Master Gardener. (Additional classes and volunteer hours will be required after that to maintain the certification.) I'm really enjoying it! But there's a lot to learn!

Here's a link to the website. You might want to look at the links on the Wildscape Garden-Mineola Nature Preserve, the Earthkind Rose Trial, and the Arboretum & Botanical Garden of Quitman. The Earthkind Rose Trial project will be over this year but the other two are major ongoing projects.