October 2021 UME Master Gardener
State Office Announcements
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Happy fall, Master Gardeners! We've been enjoying the cooler mornings and evenings and are looking forward to the holiday season.
This month's newsletter includes opportunities to share your Bay-Wise garden photos, a new continuing education event, CCBC scholarship opportunity, and more!
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Save the Date for the
Bay-Wise 25th Anniversary Conference
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Save the date for the 25th Anniversary of the Bay-Wise Master Gardener Program on November 22nd! Hear our distinguished speakers talk about how our work to improve the Bay can also improve human health, how to encourage positive behavior change, and the latest news in invasive plants and native plants.
More information on speakers, schedule, and registration coming soon.
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Incorporating Bay-Wise Landscaping and Lawn Reduction in Your Garden?
Share with Us!
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The University of Maryland Home & Garden Information Center and Bay-Wise Program are seeking a fresh batch of photos and stories that showcase your sustainable and Bay-Wise gardens in Maryland! This can include examples of how you:
- converted some lawn into more diverse gardens or a vegetable garden
- added more native plants to your landscape
- transformed an old foundation planting into a native garden
- installed a low-cost drip irrigation system to conserve water
- planted trees to reduce home energy bills
- planted “living mulches”, groundcovers at the base of trees or in place of lawn
- added native plants for wildlife habitat (e.g., bird gardens)
- managed stormwater runoff, erosion, or saturated soil with vegetated buffers, swales, rain gardens, diverting downspouts, or a planted slope, etc.
- and other sustainability topics!
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Engage Your Community Through Interpretation
November 9, 2021 | 9 am - 12 pm | Virtual via Zoom | Free
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Ever wonder how you can better engage guests that are visiting your demo garden or info table? Join Angela Yau, the Nature Program and Facility Manager at the Locust Grove Nature Center, to learn all about using interpretation to level up your skills as a Master Gardener!
Interpreters are creative people who use their skills and background to create a memorable experience for their audience. Interpretation involves passion, flexibility, storytelling, and relating to your listeners. Angela will share her knowledge and experience with interpretation, advice on creating interpretive programming, and then we will use breakout rooms to complete a practice exercise in a group, collaborative setting to put what we've learned to use!
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Scholarships Available for CCBC
Winter Session 2022
Sustainable Horticulture Program
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January 3, 2022- January 27, 2022
Hunt Valley Campus
HORT 127- Introduction to Sustainable Horticulture
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Get job-ready in just one semester at Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC)! Earn a Basic Horticulture Technician certificate and as a bonus, sit for the Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional certification as part of the classroom curriculum, all while you gain basic horticulture knowledge for landscape and nursery employment.
CCBC has full scholarships for students to take HORT 127, the Introduction to Sustainable Horticulture! Classes are Monday through Thursday for the month of January, 8:30 am to 12:15 pm. The deadline to apply for the scholarship is December 1st. For more information contact Dr. Bradley Thompson, Sustainable Horticulture Program Director, at bthompson3@ccbcmd.edu.
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UW-Madison Arboretum
Jumping Worm Survey
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The UW-Madison Arboretum has launched a community survey as part of a research study about the effects of jumping worms on native, ornamental, and crop plants, called “Building and sharing collective knowledge about the impacts of an invasive species new to Wisconsin.”
If you would like to participate in this study, click on the link below. You will first go to a page with information about the study and a consent form and can then you can complete your survey. For any questions, contact Bradley Herrick at bradley.herrick@wisc.edu.
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Did you miss our two recent continuing education webinars?
check out the recordings below! You can always see both upcoming continuing education opportunties and recorded webinars on the State MG Continuing Education webpage.
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Consult Like a Pro with the Experts at HGIC
Meet the expert team at the University of Maryland Extension Home & Garden Information Center! Learn about the resources they provide, and how you can use the resources to improve your Master Gardener skills. We’ll teach you what questions to ask in a diagnostic situation, how to take the best photos and videos for social media, and give you a tour of the brand new HGIC website! There will be plenty of fun along the way with some plant-themed trivia and a crimes against horticulture feature from our newest HGIC consultant. Join us to learn, network, and have fun!
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Sustainable Food Systems in the Era of Climate Change and Pandemics: Can we have it all?
In recent years, we have seen many exhortations for food systems to provide not only nutritious foods, but to ensure those systems are sustainable from economic, environmental and social justice perspectives. With climate disruption, worsening food insecurity and malnutrition, systemic inequities, and now, the COVID-19 pandemic, the question remains: Can the world expect so much from food systems?
Jessica Fanzo, PhD is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics at the Johns Hopkins University.
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Anahí Espíndola, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, UMD, College Park
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Plants not behaving as expected: vegetable garden edition
Erica Smith, Montgomery County Master Gardener
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Stephanie Pully
UME Master Gardener State Coordinator
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Jean Burchfield
Program Management Specialist
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