EMGs are Cooperative Extension-trained volunteers who teach public horticulture and are active in most states in the United States ( Meyer, 2007 ). Providing up-to-date, high quality training, especially in pest management, is critical for volunteer
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Mary Hockenberry Meyer, Cynthia Haynes, Denise Ellsworth, Sarah Ellis Williams, Celeste Welty, and Karen Jeannette
Mary H. Meyer, Rhoda Burrows, Karen Jeannette, Celeste Welty, and Aaron R. Boyson
Extension Master Gardeners (MGs) have been trained for nearly 40 years by land grant universities as paraprofessionals to give gardening advice and pesticide recommendations to the public ( Meyer, 2007 ). Extensive time and money is devoted to
James McConnell and Maria I.D. Pangelinan
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Ellen M. Bauske, Lelia Kelly, Kerry Smith, Lucy Bradley, Timothy Davis, and Pam Bennett
The EMG program began in 1972 in Washington ( Grieshop and Rupley, 1984 ). Horticulture extension agent D. Gibby, overwhelmed by the volume of requests for gardening information, devised a plan to train volunteers in exchange for assistance in
Joseph Monson and Denise Mainville
characteristics of these clusters and their production and marketing activities are described in this article, with a discussion of the implication of these characterizations for extension programming. While the results of this research are specific to Virginia
J.L. Olsen and C.D. Boyer
37 ORAL SESSION 4 (Abstr. 419-426) Extension: Technology Transfer
Donald H. Steinegger
106 POSTER SESSION (Abstr. 508–518) Teaching and Extension Methodology
Mary Lamberts, Carlos F. Balerdi, and O. Norman Nesheim
21 ORAL SESSION 6 (Abstr. 059–062) Extension/Cross-commodity
Donald H. Steinegger
114 ORAL SESSION 31 (Abstr. 219-226) Extension: Education
James McConnell and L. Robert Barber
182 POSTER SESSION 30 Education & Extension