Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak and guidelines from Wisconsin Department of Health Services, UW-Madison, and federal agencies:

All Master Gardener Program related volunteer projects are suspended including, but not limited to, face to face meetings, bus trips, and plant sales for April and May. This will continue into the foreseeable future until further notice.

Every MG groups hosts some sort of educational event(s) during the year. Encourage MGVs to plan ahead in order to collect meaningful information about the impact of their event. It’s not hard to create a good summary of the event that shows how it made a difference to the audience and community. The minimum information needed […]

Our Master Gardener organization extends from grass roots in the communities to the international level. Trying to understand where you are at in the family tree can be confusing at times.

The implementation of the mandatory reporter training hasn’t made it any easier. In fact, in some counties it has evolved into a MG identity crisis!

I’m going to define things from the program office point of view. When you get into the details of each county program, you’ll experience nuances, such as size of the program and not-for-profit status, which may make your group different from everybody else in the state.