MADISON COUNTY EXTENSION AND OUTREACH

MASTER GARDENER CLASS

FALL 2014

SCHEDULE

Date / Topic / Presenter(s)
Thursday, September 11th / Orientation / Cathy Simon, Regional Horticulture Education Coordinator
Tuesday, September 16th / Adobe Connect: Soils and Botany
Tuesday, September 23rd / Adobe Connect: Plant Pathology and Entomology
Thursday, September 25th / Face-to-Face: Houseplants and Plant Propagation / Megan Will, Dallas County Master Gardener and Iowa Master Gardener Advisory Committee
Tuesday, September 30th / Adobe Connect: Weeds, IPM and Pesticides
Tuesday, October 7th / Adobe Connect: Landscape Trees & Shrubs
Tuesday, October 14th / Adobe Connect: Animal Ecology
Saturday, October 18th / Campus Day - Ames / (alternate date: October 25th)
Thursday To be determined / Face-to-Face: Vegetable Gardening
Tuesday, October 21st / Adobe Connect: Turf
Tuesday, October 28th / Adobe Connect: Fruits
Thursday October 30th / Face-to-Face: Herbaceous Ornamentals / Susan Appleget-Hurst, Madison County Master Gardener
Tuesday, November 4th / Adobe Connect: Sustainable Landscape Design
Thursday November 6th / Closing Session / Cathy Simon, Regional Horticulture Education Coordinator

Note: Order of class topics may change.

Adobe Connect - Lectures will be broadcast from ISU campus live. During the lectures, trainees will have the opportunity to ask questions of the ISU Professors and Specialists.

All classes are from 6:30 to 9:30 pm. Class will be held at the Madison County Extension office, 117 N. John Wayne Drive, Winterset, Iowa 50273. The Saturday class will be held at Iowa State University campus in Ames. In addition to the class time, Master Gardener trainees are required to complete 40 hours of volunteer service hours in their communities.

The fees for service will be used to offset direct expenses and to support the Agricultural and Natural Resources County Extension program.

Extension programs are available to all without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability.