…Before re-purposing was trending… Growing up in rural Ohio with grandparents as my primary caregivers, we repurposed before re-purposing was trending. We gathered newspaper and cardboard to use them for…
Maureen Lok, Project Chair for the Center for Children and Young Adults (CCYA) received the 2020 Legacy Award at the “Cheers to Ten Years Gala” held on January 25, 2020…
The Class of 2020 has made it through their midterm exams and they are well on their way to becoming a part of our great group of Cobb Master Gardeners!…
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020, Master Gardener and Cobb Extension Program Assistant Terri Carter delighted her audience presenting Gardening With Children. Terri’s life mission is to learn, work and educate…
Do you want to stay current on your gardening knowledge? Consider helping teachers at one of Cobb’s many school gardens. Nothing keeps you up to date like teaching! ???? So,…
In front of a jam-packed audience at the Marietta Educational Garden Center on February 13, 2020, Dr. Allan Armitage talked about plants through stories. He started by engaging children through…
As a new or seasoned gardener, it’s important to recognize soil testing as one of the most basic, yet most important steps in gardening. The soil ecosystem is a tripartite…
One of the great things about our climate zone is that we get to enjoy cold-hardy flowers like pansies most of the winter. Sometimes, though, a pansy-bed doesn’t look as…
UGA Extension is encouraging the planting of pollinator spaces in community and school gardens through a new Pollinator Spaces Project. The project gathers up on the Pollinator Spaces webpages links…
Teaching the Junior Master Gardener materials continues to teach me. In the chapter on fruits and nuts is an exercise called ‘Fruit and Veggie Lab’. I had not really thought…