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The Master Gardeners of Fannin County
are a non-profit educational and charitable association supporting AgriLIFE Extension to improve gardening skills throughout the community. Program objectives are implemented through the training of local volunteers known as Master Gardeners. We conduct youth and community education; establish and maintain demonstration gardens; and provide a speakers bureau. We work with special audiences in the community (4-H horticultural clubs, Junior Master Gardener groups, schools, and others) for youth and community outreach of a horticultural nature. We recruit and educate new Master Gardener candidates for effective volunteering. |
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What is a Master Gardener?
Master Gardeners are local volunteers in your community who volunteer with the AgriLIFE Extension to increase the availability of horticultural information and improve your communities quality of life through various horticultural projects.
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 Fannin County The Fannin County Master Gardeners meet at noon on the 1st Monday of each month (unless it’s a holiday, then the 2nd Monday) at the First presbyterian Church in Bonham. We’d love to have you join us! You may come as a guest, become a member of our auxiliary or become a Texas Certified Master Gardener. We get involved in many community projects, so if you’d like to hang out with some nice people, some of whom are really Master Gardeners, please call the Fannin AgriLIFE Extension Office at 903-583-7453 for more information. |
Who are Texas Master Gardeners?
Texas Master Gardeners is a volunteer program designed to grow horticultural information throughout the state, town by town. To become a Texas Master Gardener, a participant attends 50 hours of instruction, conducted by the local Extension county agent, then shares this knowledge by donating 50 hours of volunteer service back to the community.
The touch of Texas Master Gardeners’ green thumbs can be found across the state -- in school garden projects, horticultural therapy projects, community gardens and demonstration gardens; by volunteers who also conduct gardening programs and answer gardening questions. Anything anyone wants to know about gardening, a Master Gardener can help. That includes young wannabe gardeners too – Master Gardeners help set up 4-H gardening clubs and Junior Master Gardener groups.
In fact, when it comes to green and growing things, Master Gardeners dig into their service in all kinds of ways: teaching, giving presentations, writing newsletters and articles, providing clerical help, and designing and maintaining Web pages.
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In 2008, more than 6,400 volunteers were Texas Master Gardeners, according to the organization’s annual report.
That year Texas Master Gardeners gave 2,200 presentations for a combined audience of 68,087 of their neighbors, and provided research-based horticulture information to 18,000 others.
Volunteers contributed 454,036 hours to horticulture-based educational projects in 2008, a benefit to the state that was worth $9 million.
