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Jan 8, 2020
The Fayette County Master Gardener Volunteers (FCMGVs) and the Carnegie Public Library teamed up to bring together youth, aged 3 to 8, to learn about plants and gardening. This year’s theme is Discover, Create, Record.
The program had four sessions. The first session was to plant the garden. We discovered and created the garden. We took pictures of the garden to watch its progress.
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Dec 31, 2019
The Fayette County Master Gardener Volunteer (FCMGV) Sponsor a Pot (SAP) Program is a community beautification program. Individuals, groups, and businesses sponsor the program. Each sponsor has a plaque in a container somewhere in the city. This year we have 77 sponsorships from 67 sponsors. This is up from 63 sponsors in 2018. Fayette County Travel and Tourism provides a grant to support the project.
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Dec 12, 2019
MGV volunteers began their Holiday Season teaching 16 Wagnalls Memorial Library Home Schoolers how to look around their yards to create great holiday arrangements. The Master Gardener Volunteers found lots of needled trees and shrubs to use for a great little holiday “flower-less” arrangement!
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Nov 25, 2019
Writer: Denise Johnson
The Best of the Best State MGV Conference was held Friday, November 8 at the 4-H Center on the OSU Campus in Columbus. It was a great day of education and celebration of the award-winning projects, volunteers and staff. CFAES Dean Cath Ann Kress joined MGVs for lunch and to present the awards. More than 200 volunteers from around Ohio attended the conference hosted by the MGV State Advisory Committee.
Save the date for the 2020 State Conference on September 11-12 in Beachwood, hosted by Cuyahoga County MGVs.
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Oct 7, 2019
Greetings,
On behalf of the State MGV Advisory Committee, I am excited to invite you to the 2019 Annual MGV State Conference and Awards Program in Columbus, Ohio. We are holding this one-day conference on November 8, 2019 from 7:30 a.m. - 4:01 p.m. We did not have a county hosting this year and we did not want to go a year without honoring our fantastic volunteers at the Awards Program, therefore it is being hosted by the Advisory Committee.
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Aug 27, 2019
On June 22, the FCMGVs held their fifth annual Daylily Show. The show is open to everyone statewide. There are categories for individual scapes and artistic designs.
This year we expanded the design categories and brought in an Ohio Association of Garden Clubs judge. All the design categories were named after buildings. Everyone enjoyed the Buckingham Palace design category, a Fascinator, wearable on the head.
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Jun 28, 2019
On June 18, several employees of The Bellevue Hospital gathered on the east side of the hospital’s campus to admire the property’s prairie garden, the result of a restoration project led by Bob Beck of Bellevue.
To honor the time and research Bob and his wife Ellie have contributed to the success of the prairie, the garden was officially dedicated as The Bob and Ellie Beck Centennial Prairie and Wildflower Garden.
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Jun 5, 2019
NOTE - This trip is filled for 2020. Contact Denise Johnson, johnson.2924@osu.edu if you would like to be on the wait list for 2021.
Ohio Master Gardener Volunteers will have the opportunity to team up with the Tandana Foundation for a service-learning journey in Ecuador in 2020. The dates are set – January 31 through February 8, 2020. Adventuring in Ecuador, a country with 12 hours of sunlight year-round has been a dream come true for over 60 Ohio MGVS since 2013.
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Mar 25, 2019
Writer: Denise Johnson
SAVE THE DATE – Friday, November 8, 2019 will be a special one-day Ohio Master Gardener Volunteer conference held at the Ohio 4-H Center on the Ohio State University Campus in Columbus, according to Pam Bennett, MGV State Coordinator.
“We can’t let a year pass without providing appropriate acknowlegement to our outstanding volunteers, projects and friends,” Bennett said.
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Dec 17, 2018
Writer: Pamela J. Bennett
Submitted by Ivory Harlow
Master Gardeners donate time, energy and enthusiasm to enrich their communities through garden education, but that isn’t all they donate… The gardeners grow fresh, healthy food for donation to area foodbanks. In 2018, Ross County Master Gardeners donated 4979.5 pounds of produce as part of the Grow Ohio Challenge.
