Sanctioned Public Education Events

The next meeting will be on March 11th, at the regular time (1:00 p.m.) at the First Presbyterian Church. Come early and meet the recently graduated Master Gardeners.Mark's article's "Hypoxylon canker can attack shade trees" from the December 9th 09 Baxter Bulletin article is online in the Garden News section under "Other Articles".

Baxter County Master Gardeners

Sanctioned Public Education/Events

Public/Education Events serve to educate the community by providing the public with opportunities to ask questions of Master Gardeners, identify species, find solutions to their gardening problems, and how they can join the Master Gardeners.

Baxter County Fair Horticulture Room

Fair Dates for 2009 = September 14th - 20th, 2009
	County Fairgrounds 1507 Fairgrounds Drive Mountain Home, AR
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	Co-Chair -
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Baxter County Master Gardeners manage the exhibit listings for the horticulture section of the Baxter County Fair Book. They oversee the horticulture room including the Junior and Senior Horticulture Exhibits at the Baxter county Fair.

Coordinators recruit and train other master Gardeners to register exhibits and to staff the horticulture room at fair time. Informational guides, written and published by members, help educate the public to be better exhibitors. These guides provide detailed information about selecting, preparing and judging the following horticulture for competition at the fair: fruits, herbs, vegetables, plants, flowers and floral arrangements.

An exhibit grooming table is also staffed by BCMGs during the fair registration hours to assist with final entry preparations. This is an annual event, not to be confused with the Fairgrounds Planter outside of the fair building which is maintained year round.

2008 Fair Material

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Best of Show 2008 |2008 Exhibits |

2008 Fair Pictures Setup Day

Best of Show 2008

2008 Exhibits

Annual Seminar 'Developing an Ozarks Green Thumb'

This years seminar date is: Saturday, March 14 - 2009

	Redeemer Lutheran Church Family Life Center 312 North Street Mountain Home, AR
	Chair - Linda Gabric
	Co-Chair -
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	Download Registration Form 2009: Seminar Registration Click Here

Seminar information for Baxter County Master Gardeners

Each year since 1995, the Baxter County Master Gardeners have presented a community seminar titled "Developing an Ozark Green Thumb.'' This seminar is an educational opportunity for area residents covering various aspects of Ozark gardening. Many topics have been covered; such as composting, vegetables, herbs, perennial and annual plants, roses, raised bed gardens, lawns, trees, shrubs, container gardens, insect and disease control. That is only part of the list.

The seminar is usually held the second Saturday in March. Set-up for the seminar is on Friday, the day before, usually from 9:00 a.m. to noon.

Because this is a sanctioned project, any time you work at the seminar during these two days earns hours toward the twenty (20) work hours required of master gardeners for the year, or toward the forty (40) hours required of new master gardeners.
When you are not working but rather watching and listening to the seminar, you will earn hours toward the twenty (20) learning hours that are required for the year.

Other means of earning work hours in seminar related activities include the following:

1. In the planning phase of the seminar we will have a number of committees that will be looking for workers. Time contributed to any of these committee efforts will constitute work hours. You may expect to be called by one or more committee chairpersons seeking your assistance.

2. Each master gardener who attends the seminar is expected to donate finger food to be used during seminar breaks. Bring these finger foods [such as muffins, bars, cookies, coffeecakes, veggies with dip,
fruit] in serving size pieces. Diabetic foods should be so labeled. Your food donations may be brought in on set-up day or on the morning of the seminar. These donations will be your entrance ticket to the seminar, and the preparation time in making the finger food may be counted as work hours.

It is hoped that all of the Baxter County Master Gardeners will participate in the seminar in some manner, and it is especially desired that master gardeners will use this opportunity to become better acquainted with fellow members.

To ensure enough handouts are available at the seminar, master gardeners who plan to attend and would like to have a seminar packet are required to sign up ahead of time.

The seminar is a success each year due to the efforts of the entire group.

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PowerPoint Seminar 2009 Setup Day "This is almost a 3 megabyte download."

PowerPoint Seminar 2009 Seminar Day "This is almost a 4.5 megabyte download."

Be warned these PowerPoint's could take awhile to download.

The pictures below are samples of the photos taken. The entire list of pictures are in the PowerPoints!

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Setup Day March 13, 2009

Seminar March 14, 2009

KTLO Lawn & Garden Show

	County Fairgrounds 107 Fairgrounds Drive Mountain Home, AR
	Chair - Jim Whitesell
	Co-Chair -
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Every Spring KTLO invites the Masters Gardeners to have a booth at their Out Door Show. This is a wonderful opportunity for our community to meet the Master Gardeners, and become familiar with some of our projects. We also answer many of their gardening question, or do our very best to find someone who can solve their problem, and get back to them via a phone call. Our members who work our booth enjoy meeting new people and seeing old friends, and sharing with all, our love of gardening.

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Baxter County Master Gardener

Annual Plant Sale

This years plant sale is on: Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Click Here for: Plant Sale Flyer 2009
	Hickory Park 466 South Hickory Street Mountain Home, AR
	Chair - Dian Lawrence
	Co-Chair -
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Members donate plant seedlings, plant divisions, vegetables and cut flowers to raise funds for projects. Planting and growing tips are provided with the plants, and many additional gardening questions are answered by Master Gardeners staffing the plant sale This years plant sale is April 26th, 9:00 a.m. at Hickory Park

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PowerPoint Setup Plant Sale 2007 This is almost a 3.3 megabyte download

PowerPoint Plant Sale 2007 This is almost a 3.2 megabyte download.

Be warned that the PowerPoint's will take awhile to download or to open.

Setup Day 2009

Seminar 2009

BCMG/Mtn. Home Parks &

Recreation Youth Gardening

	Cooper Park 1101 Spring St Mountain Home, AR
	Chair - David Haynes
	Co-Chair - Carla Haynes
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Through a partnership between BCMG and the Mountain Home Parks & Recreation, youth from the L.C. Sammons Youth Center meet with Master Gardeners weekly throughout the summer to learn about gardening.

Master Gardeners meet at the school house at Rapps Barren (Cooper Park) at 11:30, for a half hour of preparation and planning. The kids come from 12 to 1:00. . The seeds were put in on May 4th, so the kids will be checking on them, watering, seeing if fertilizing is needed, maybe thinning? The park provides the tools and snacks for the kids. We supervise and answer questions. Just bring yourselves & prepare to have fun. This is a sanctioned project, so if you need work hours, Y’ALL COME.

The 2009 summer project: Download Schedule: Word or PDF

Summer Schedule for 2009 Youth Project. This summer workdays will be on Wednesdays. It is the feeling of the members at Cooper Park that Wednesdays have the greatest number of kids at the park.

June 10^th

9:00 to 10:00 Garden Introduction

10:00 to 12:00 Create and Hang Signs (plant flowers in pots)

June 17^th

9:00 to 11:00 Garden Maintenance - Soil Test

11:00 to 12:00 Garden Pavers - Make stepping stones for the garden

June 24^th

9:00 to 10:00 Garden Maintenance - Compost

10:00 to 12:00 Garden Scavenger Hunt

July 1^st

9:00 to10:00 Garden Maintenance - Weeding

10:00 to 12:00 Flower Post - Decorate your one flower pots

July 8^th

9:00 to 10:00 Garden Maintenance - Pest Control

10:00 to 12:00 Garden Insects - Collect and Identify garden insects

July 15^th

9:00 to 10:00 Garden Pruning

10:00 to 12:00 Gourd Birdhouse - Make and decorate your own gourd birdhouse to take home & hang

July 22^nd

9:00 to 10:00 Garden Maintenance - Plant Disease Control

10:00 to 12:00 Field trip - Take a field trip to the farmers market & learn how farmers sell their crops

July 29^th

9:00 to 10:00 Garden Maintenance - Plant Disease Control

10:00 to 12:00 Vegetable Canning - Can some vegetable that you have grown to enter in the fair

Vegetable Dehydrating - Learn new ways to store food for long periods of time

August 5^th

9:00 to 10:00 Garden Maintenance - Harvest Techniques

10:00 to 12:00 Seed Storage - Prepare seeds for storage to be used in 2010

August 12^th

9:00 to 10:00 Garden Maintenance - End of Summer Clean Up

10:00 to 12:00 Fair Preparation - Prepare your entries for the fair

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Summer 2009

Garden Center Public Booths

and Other Public Events

	The Garden Booths are located at the major Home & Garden Centers, such as Home Depot, Lowe's, Orschelen, & Wal-Marts
	Chair - Lyla Crawford
	Co-Chair - Anne Marie Richardson
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