{"id":5580,"date":"2013-01-30T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccmga.aces.edu\/?page_id=5580"},"modified":"2021-01-17T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T16:22:45","slug":"a-new-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/a-new-history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #6b420d\">How Master Gardeners Touch Lives<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Community landscape beautification projects<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Community demonstration garden<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">School landscape and classroom project<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Environmental awareness education<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #6b420d\">History of Master Gardeners<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Master Gardener (MG) volunteer program began in 1972 in King County (Seattle), Washington. Extension Agent David Gibby was being overwhelmed with\u00a0requests for gardening\u00a0information. Partially in self-defense,\u00a0he developed\u00a0the idea of providing training for avid gardeners who would then share the acquired knowledge with others through community service.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #6b420d\">Master Gardeners of Chilton County<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Chilton County Master Gardeners\u00a0Association\u00a0was organized in 1999\u00a0and began conducting regular meetings and events.\u00a0\u00a0Gary Gray, the Chilton County Extension Agent spearheaded the program by gathering twenty-nine local gardening enthusiasts for the first class that\u00a0graduated in 1999. It was these\u00a0energetic volunteers who established many of our outreach and extension support programs that continue today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14675\" src=\"http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/04\/scan0001-1182x607-536x275.jpg\" alt=\"scan0001-1182x607\" width=\"536\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/04\/scan0001-1182x607-536x275.jpg 536w, http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/04\/scan0001-1182x607-292x150.jpg 292w, http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/04\/scan0001-1182x607-682x350.jpg 682w, http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/04\/scan0001-1182x607-250x128.jpg 250w, http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2016\/04\/scan0001-1182x607.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Back in the day!! To name a few\u2013Pat Conlee (1999), E.C. Lewis (1999), Alan Reed (2000), Jewel Robinson (2000), Ann Glass, Belva Johns, &amp; Ext. Agent Gary Gray<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Master Gardeners Touch Lives Community landscape beautification projects Community demonstration garden School landscape and classroom project Environmental awareness education History of Master Gardeners The Master Gardener (MG) volunteer program began in 1972 in King County (Seattle), Washington. Extension Agent David Gibby was being overwhelmed with\u00a0requests for gardening\u00a0information. Partially in self-defense,\u00a0he developed\u00a0the idea of providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-2col.php","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>History - Chilton County Master Gardeners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/mg.aces.edu\/chilton\/a-new-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"History - Chilton County Master Gardeners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How Master Gardeners Touch Lives Community landscape beautification projects Community demonstration garden School landscape and classroom project Environmental awareness education History of Master Gardeners The Master Gardener (MG) volunteer program began in 1972 in King County (Seattle), Washington. 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