Leadership Tools to Help Connect Future Volunteers to Best Serve Their Community Staying current and helping train Master Volunteers from an agency perspective has been a focus for AgriLife since the beginning of 2021. A team consisting of the four major Master Volunteer programs including Master Gardener, Master Naturalist,… Read More →
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Andrew B. Crocker
Senior Extension Program Specialist – Gerontology and Health Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Andy Crocker’s role is to support County Extension Agents for Family and Community Health in their efforts to educate older adults, caregivers, and the professionals who serve them. Since joining AgriLife Extension in 2003, Mr. Crocker has… Read More →
Speakers
Click here for a downloadable PDF of the speakers. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Jeff Raska Horticultural Program Coordinator – Dallas County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Jeff ”retired” to AgriLife 11 years ago after being in the Horticulture business for 25 years managing wholesale and retail nurseries as well as working for an… Read More →
Tim Hartmann
Program Specialist – Earth-Kind® Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Tim Hartmann, originally from Blanco, TX, graduated from Texas A&M University with his Bachelors of Science in Horticulture in 2009 with an emphasis in fruit and vegetable production. He received his Masters Degree in Plant Breeding and Horticulture in 2013 from… Read More →
2021 Speakers
Click here for a downloadable PDF of the speakers. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Mike Arnold Director of the Gardens and Professor Texas A&M University Department of Horticulture Sciences Mike has been with the Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences as a professor of landscape horticulture and in other capacities since 2012 and… Read More →
Doug Richards – Hood County
Lake Granbury Master Gardeners (LGMG), Hood County, recently recommended Master Gardener Emeritus status for Doug Richards. We want to summarize his long and laudatory record not only with LGMG but also with Texas Master Gardener Association (TMGA). Lake Granbury Master Gardeners Doug completed Master Gardener Training and fulfilled his volunteer… Read More →
Lamont Cunningham – Hunt County
Master Gardener 1997-2011 Lamont had a vision for a demonstration and teaching garden in downtown Greenville Texas In August of 2001 Lamont was named Individual Master Gardener of the Year for Small and enlisted the Hunt County MG membership to help make the dream come… Read More →
Helen Orsak – Nueces County
Master Gardener – 2000 Helen Orsak has been an outstanding Nueces Master Gardener for the past 10 years, amassing a total of 2077.5 hours. Below are some of the many things she has done in her time as a MG. When Nueces County was without a… Read More →
History of Texas Master Gardener Program
History of Master Gardeners in Texas When the term “Master Gardener” was first coined in the early 1970s to describe a new Extension program in Washington State, few could have predicted it would spread into Texas and blossom into one of the most effective volunteer organizations in the state. The… Read More →