Horticulture | Georgia Master Gardener
Agents & Coordinators
What counts as Master Gardener volunteer service
Educational
- Children’s Programs. Conducted for ages 0-18 at 4-H clubs, libraries, schools, gardens, camps.
- Civic or Garden club presentations. Speaking engagements, demonstrations, etc.
- Planning or maintaining demonstration gardens and conducting educational tours at gardens.
- Judging flower shows, vegetable shows, horticultural shows, etc.
- Preparing exhibits about Master Gardener Program, horticultural topics or environmental topics including slide presentations.
- Work performed at Extension office including answering phone questions, general office duties, and helping walk-in clients.
- Work done with Habitat for Humanity that is related to gardening, landscaping or composting and focusing on educating the other volunteers and prospective homeowner.
- Visits to homeowner gardens or landscapes that involve educating the homeowner including phone consultations from one’s own home.
- Producing newsletters for homeowners or Master Gardeners.
- Magazine or newspaper articles written by or compiled by MG’s with Extension approval and single articles published in newsletters.
- Organizing or working at plant clinics at various places
- Assisting with research project or conducting research for and writing fact sheets, brochures, etc.
- Teaching scheduled classes for adults ages 18+ including preparation time.
- Writing, performing, producing TV and Radio programs related to gardening, etc.
Administrative
- Serving on Extension or other advisory groups related to your being a Master Gardener.
- Time served as GMGA Officer, director, or committee member making calls, attending board or committee meetings, writing letters, etc.
- Work performed helping to administrate local program - maintaining mailing lists, databases, web pages, writing grants, etc. Includes time served as officer of local association attending board or committee meetings and preparing for and conducting regular association meetings.
- Other work approved by Extension Office or State Program.
What does not count as Master Gardener volunteer service
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Any service for which you receive pay
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Attending general Local Association, GMGA or International Association meetings unless you are helping in some capacity.
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Advanced or other training which you were not involved in setting up or teaching.
Attending flower shows, events, classes, activities etc. that you did not help to set up, teach at.