Volunteers

Thanks…

for joining more than 1,100 active Kentucky Extension Master Gardeners.

We see you out there…digging, sharing, teaching, helping, learning.

Together we grow good things.

^{Pennyroyal Master Gardener Association harvest for Christian Food Bank of Hopkins County.}

^{Lincoln Trail Master Gardeners}

KEMG Conference

^{Barbara Miller Ray, 2018 KEMG Award}

Awards

^{©2018 UK College of Agriculture}

Gardening Info

Nurturing the Commonwealth

Master Gardeners cultivate our communities

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1,151

Active Extension Master Gardener Volunteers*

63

counties with KEMG programs**

170,481

KEMG volunteer hours**

$5.5M

labor value for Kentucky**

*2023/**In the past 5 years

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Stories gathered in the garden

Perennial value

Master Gardener programs offer perennial value for counties large – and small. Novice gardeners sometimes wonder if perennials are worth the higher up front cost. A quick survey would gather ample evidence to their enduring value. Perennials improve the soil structure and draw up nutrients and water from deeper in the ground. They also reduce…

Growing the next Generation

In Adair County, Extension Master Gardener Veronica Arnold is sowing seeds to grow the next generation of gardeners. “As a homeschool teaching mother, I wanted to use what I learned in the Extension Master Gardener program to teach not only my own children, but also other children in the community.” In late Spring 2022, Veronica…

Butterfly Ambassadors

These “flying flowers” help us see how we are all connected. For centuries, butterflies have irresistibly fascinated humans around the globe. In 2018, two Daviess County Extension Master Gardeners realized they both had caught the butterfly bug. “I became a master gardener to expand my knowledge about plants but also to be with like-minded people,”…

Bringing the outside in

“It looks sharp,” said Phil*, a Master Gardener student. He didn’t want to touch the unfamiliar plant sample, fearing it was poison ivy. “We brought it back to him again…and he touched his first dandelion,” says Macy Fawns, Mason County Horticulture agent. In May 2022 Fawns held her first Master Gardener class behind bars -…