Master Gardener Trainees Meet
By Mary Barfield
On Jan. 9 at the Community Center, Glasscock County Master Gardener Andrea Hillger provided a presentation to a group of Master Gardener trainees about the Junior Master Gardener program. It was started in January, 2001 and quickly grew to 31 participants from elementary age through high school. It is coordinated through the local 4-H club.
Hillger focused on the proposed landscaping of the Community Center, which will use a design plan created and donated by Debbie Benge Frost, county Extension Agent-Horticulture Ector/Midland. Youth involved in the JMG program will be primarily responsible for implementing this design, using partial funding provided by a grant from the Dora Roberts Foundation of Big Spring. JoAnn Hillger provided information on plant and shade tree selections adapted to the South Plains area.
The Master Gardener trainees discussed how they might apply the 250 hours of service required in their training to this and other projects in the county. Others attending the meeting were Bobbie McDaniel, Mary Jo Cope, Mary Barfield, Deanie Craft and Claudia Brown.