Re: MG programs

[Robt R Pries <rpries@sbcglobal.net>]

Nancy; Sounds great the things you are doing and i
appreciate your help. It seems that The Master
gardener program is different in every state and maybe
even from county to county. I am hoping we could
provide a program that could be presented by a local
trainer. I am not trying to pin anything down yet
since I think this should be a project with lots of
input. Roughly I am thinking about a preset program on
perhaps powerpoint. I am also considering some
pretraining for the trainers in order to have some
consistency and for them to have some confidence in
the information they are presenting. I would like to
be able to offer this as a short 2-4 hour course that
master gardeners could take as an elective but would
be accredited to their training requirements. It is
possible that a portion of the presenation could be
automated and the trainer (actually the term Master
Irisarian is growing on me ) might be able to tailor
part of the information to local conditions. It seems
to me there are many ways in which this might be done
and the MG program may have their own standards for
required topics that we would have to meet. 
--- Nancy Pocklington <NPocklington@msn.com> wrote:

> In the new affiliate I've helped start this winter,
> there are several Master
> Gardeners, who aren't necessarily experienced with
> irises but who have seen to
> it that our meetings are announced in their MG
> newsletter.  They also asked
> for posters from various horticultural clubs to be
> displayed at a recent
> gardener's Sat. program held on the IL State Fair
> grounds in the U of I
> Extension building, and we sent one.
> 
> It's my impression, however, that the "community
> service" they are obligated
> to after graduation consists mainly of manning the
> telephones on a radio show,
> to field questions from the public.  In doing that,
> they become part of the
> University Extension Services.   If we could get our
> speakers into the
> training that the MG's receive, that would be good,
> but they probably devote
> only one of their several school sessions to
> perennials, and they wouldn't
> want to give all of that session to one flower.
> 
> Our Carlinville, IL, garden was invited to be on a U
> of I Ext.-sponsored
> garden tour in Macoupin Co. several years ago,
> ---held in the latter part of
> June! Literally hundreds of people came through, and
> asked many questions of
> me about the irises, and a good many came back in
> August, at my invitation, to
> pick up free plants. Such contact is good, and what
> we're supposed to be
> about. I'll see if I can find out whom we'd need to
> contact to become
> considered as "trainers" for the MG's.
> 
> Nancy Pocklington, in cent. Ill.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robt R Pries
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:26 PM
> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] MG programs
> 
> I would certainly like to draw upon your expertize
> and
> Barbaras' also. I realize we have many talented
> people
> within AIS. As public relations chair it is
> incumbent
> on me to facillitate and expend these benefucail
> outreaches. Your input could be valuable in
> crediting
> teams of such presenters in other parts of the
> country. If we pool our knowledge we might be able
> to
> even improve our own current presentations while
> helping others in different regions get a headstart
> on
> doing the same.
> 
> --- Wmcdougherty@cs.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello again,
> >
> > Barbara Sautner(current President of ISM) and I
> have
> > spent a great deal of time constructing programs;
> > Gardening with Iris, (types and culture)
> Landscaping
> > with Iris (types, historical and current use of
> > iris) and presentations on various types of iris;
> > TBs, bearded, beardless, Siberians Japanese etc.
> We
> > have presented these at MG plant fairs and to/at
> MG
> > programs across our state. These are always well
> > received. We educate MGs and their clients.
> >
> > Bill Dougherty
> >
> >
>
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