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About Us
County Impact Statements - Boone County
Master Gardeners Make Boone County a Beautiful Place to Live
Gardening ranks as the Number One hobby in the United States, and in
Arkansas. The Master Gardener program is designed to meet the needs of the
growing number of adults who want to expand their education, learn more about
gardening and help their communities. Each volunteer gains forty hours of
intensive horticultural training, and in return they pay back forty hours of
volunteer service to their community. To keep their Master Gardener title, each
volunteer must spend at least twenty hours of volunteer service and twenty hours
learning about horticulture and gardening each year.
Master Gardener projects vary throughout the state. The Boone County Master
Gardeners have worked on various projects including: assisting with check-in and
check-out of horticultural exhibits, canned goods exhibits and art exhibits at
the Boone County Fair and the Northwest Arkansas District Fair; judging of
horticultural exhibits at Carroll, Newton and Baxter County Fairs; landscape
projects at Harrison City Hall, Boone County Courthouse, Special Services,
Skyline School outdoor classroom, churches and other public places; made
horticultural and gardening presentations to garden clubs, civic clubs and 4-H
clubs; conducted gardening clinics at local garden centers; conducted
demonstrations; and presented radio and TV programs on horticulture and
gardening.
In the last two years, fourteen Boone County Master Gardeners have
volunteered over 1,165 hours doing volunteer service. They have also spent over
280 hours in continuing education to learn more about horticulture and
gardening.
Master Gardeners Jo Davis, Brenda Minor and Roberta Beatty work
on shrub beds in downtown Harrison.
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Impacts
- In 2001, six Gardening Series were presented at the Boone County Library
on Annuals, Perennials, Vegetables, Landscape Plants and Arkansas Select
Plants with 118 gardeners attending.
- In 2000, the Boone County Master Gardeners donated over 508 hours doing
volunteer service to the community on horticultural projects.
- Twenty-five new Master Gardeners were trained in 2001.
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