After a delicious holiday potluck brunch, Alan Gregory presented an interesting program on “Birds in Your Backyard” and the Arkansas Audubon “Bird Friendly Yard Program”. He is President of the Harrison Bird Club, Program Director for Boone County MG, Chairman for the Pollinator Garden, and operates the Boone County turtle rescue and rehab (licensed by […]
Congratulations to the fourteen new master gardeners who completed the University of Arkansas Extension training program! Way to Go. We gardeners mourn the passing of Kevin Wright this winter. Kevin is third from left in the second row and was a classmate in Berryville Schools with CCMG’ers Jennifer Hudspeth and Regina Hooten, many gardening seasons
Our guest speaker at the February 2019 monthly membership meeting was Tom Krohn, Arkansas Regional Coordinator for Frog Watch USA, a nationwide citizen science program that monitors frogs and toads. He has established five Arkansas Chapters and has trained over 2000 frog listening enthusiasts. He is the president of the non-profit Saving Nature Now, a
Kathryn Kufahl, from Master Gardeners of the Ozarks – Stone and Taney Counties in Missouri, presented a program at the October 2018 CCMG monthly meeting. She brought a number of cuttings from her fall garden. The subject of her talk was fall home garden management. What do we do in the garden, after the frost?
Two of our members, Jerry Hembd and Mariellen Griffith, presented a program on permaculture and sustainability to the Northwest Arkansas Permaculture Study Group August 4, 2018 in Eureka Springs. Mariellen’s slideshow on creating a sustainable garden looks at topics of: What is Permaculture? It is basically a philosophic and scientific method combining agriculture, social design
The Carroll County Master Gardeners held a county-wide plant sale at the Equity Bank parking lot in Berryville, AR. The gardeners grew plants from seeds or divided their own plants to sell. After setting up tables and signage, twenty-six Master Gardeners helped customers with information about the various plants, and also helped carry plants to
The Master Gardener of the Ozarks, of Taney and Stone County Missouri, held their 15th Annual Spring Gardening Workshop on March 3, 2018. Nine CCMG members attended, with five program speakers and varied plant vendors. My interest was piqued by one of the speakers, Kathryn Kufahl, on the topic of “The Right Size Garden.” I
Karen Reeves and Sue Davis shared some great information on starting seeds indoors at the February Master Gardener meeting. Karen demonstrated her PVC indoor grow light table set up, home made germination mat warmer apparatus, and different types of growing medium. Sue showed us her methods for starting and watering seeds. Here are some helpful
Madison Woods, author, artist and ginseng grower, presented valuable information to our members at the January, 2018 monthly meeting of CCMG about this remarkable plant. She spoke with members on: the medicinal value of ginseng, where and how it grows, and the legalities of harvesting ginseng. Madison propagates and wild harvests the roots at her
Sam Doty, a University of Arkansas Horticulture graduate student presented a program to our September 2017 monthly membership meeting. His research focus is on basil cultivation and comparing different methods of hydroponic growing in greenhouses. He kindly shared his slideshow presentation with us. Enjoy!
Tony Le Caufi, a Benton County Master Gardener and long-time organic gardener, presented a program on gardening the natural way at our July 2017 monthly membership meeting. He shared with us a great deal of his years of experience with natural gardening. Of course there is a multitude of information on this topic, and one
Dr. John Holland, well-known Northwest Arkansas gardener and photographer, presented a program at our May 2017 monthly membership meeting on Daylilies and Japanese Maples. Enjoy! Daylilies Slideshow Japanese Maples and Others Slideshow
