Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. We
Speaker 1: have our OLSU Extension Master Gardner in here with us
Speaker 1: today we have Kennedy McCall. Kennedy, how you doing today?
Speaker 1: I'm good?
Speaker 2: How are you this morning?
Speaker 1: Wonderful? Wonderful, wonderful. You're an AG educator. What are we
Speaker 1: going to be educated upon today?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so today we're going to talk about Master Gardners.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of like a club similar to four
Speaker 2: H or OHSE within OSU Extension and that falls under
Speaker 2: my eg umbrella. So I'm kind of the facilitator of that.
Speaker 1: What's happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we are getting ready to start our twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five Master Gardner courses. So those will start January
Speaker 2: twenty first. Basically, what it is is it's a ten
Speaker 2: course class and we'll have one a week and they
Speaker 2: will run through April first, and I can give you
Speaker 2: some more information if you like about that. Yeah. So
Speaker 2: they're on Tuesdays from nine thirty to three at Tri
Speaker 2: County Tech out on Nowater Road. Easy to find, yeah,
Speaker 2: very easy to find. Every Tuesday, we have a class
Speaker 2: and we have a specialist from Oklahoma State come in
Speaker 2: and they teach their respective topics, so I can give
Speaker 2: you that list if you'd like. So we'll go through botany,
Speaker 2: plant physiology, soil science, plant diseases, vegetables, turf entomology, ornamentals,
Speaker 2: fruits and nuts, and pesta sites. So each class will
Speaker 2: cover a different topic. It's pretty extensive, about a four
Speaker 2: hour long class. We have lunch there at Try County
Speaker 2: Tech with our group. So really good information if you're
Speaker 2: interested in diving deeper into Master Gardeners.
Speaker 1: Now, how do we sign up for this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can visit our office. We're located right
Speaker 2: beside Dewey High School. We're just to the west of it.
Speaker 2: I can give you our address, but it typically won't
Speaker 2: get you there on.
Speaker 1: They'll find it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, if you know where Dewey High School is,
Speaker 2: we're just right next door to them. So you can
Speaker 2: either come into our office and you can give your
Speaker 2: information to our admin assistant MICHAELA. And then you can
Speaker 2: pay the fee or you can do that by mail.
Speaker 2: So this year, our new fee is going to be
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars. That gets you the course and then
Speaker 2: that also pays for a Master Gardener handbook that comes
Speaker 2: from OSU and that has all the information plus some
Speaker 2: in it and then if you're returning, it's thirty dollars.
Speaker 2: And we have a lot of returning members. They say
Speaker 2: some that have taken it fifteen years say they learned
Speaker 2: something new every single time, So it's a good thing
Speaker 2: to retake over and over.
Speaker 1: A lot of folks just follow their passion and that's
Speaker 1: where it lies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. And just to explain a little bit
Speaker 2: more about Master Gardeners, I mentioned that it was kind
Speaker 2: of an affiliation with OSU, So a lot of different
Speaker 2: counties in Oklahoma have this group. But you don't just
Speaker 2: take the courses and then you're done. So you'll take it.
Speaker 2: We will have a final test following the ten courses,
Speaker 2: and then you become a part of the membership. And
Speaker 2: basically what you do is you serve volunteer hours. So
Speaker 2: we do things like an annual plant sell. We have
Speaker 2: the Garden of Eton if you've ever heard of that,
Speaker 2: where we donate produce. We do all kinds of things.
Speaker 2: Library beds if you've been to the Bartlesville Public Library,
Speaker 2: we take care of those beds. So it's a really
Speaker 2: fun group. Requires some volunteer hours, but you'll fly through them.
Speaker 2: And it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Now this does sound like fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of fun, really good group, close
Speaker 2: knit group. So I think anyone that wants to join
Speaker 2: and likes gardening would enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Do you have a presence online where folks can read
Speaker 1: up about this?
Speaker 2: We do in Yeah, you can either visit our OSU extension.
Speaker 2: You can just google OSU Extension, Washington County and they
Speaker 2: can find all of our information there, or if you're
Speaker 2: on Facebook, you can look up Master Gardeners of Washington
Speaker 2: County and we keep all that information there as well.
Speaker 1: Super what else is going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's about all Master Gardeners have going on, right
Speaker 2: a lot? It sounds like a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We actually just finished the year and we have our
Speaker 2: end of Your banquet on Thursday, so we just wrapped
Speaker 2: everything up and then this class kind of kicks off
Speaker 2: the new year for us. After that, we jump right
Speaker 2: into our annual plant cell, which is held at the
Speaker 2: Washington County Fairgrounds. Yeah, very popular sales and get there early,
Speaker 2: sells out past Yeah, that'll be the last Saturday in April.
Speaker 2: And then after that we just dive into the demo
Speaker 2: beds at the Extension. Garden, We take over the library beds,
Speaker 2: start working on everything. But it kind of takes getting
Speaker 2: past this winter period to get back into the gardening routine.
Speaker 1: So you get back into the fun part of getting dirty. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Gotta let all the cold weather get by first, that's right, Kennedy.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for being with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you very much for having me and look
Speaker 2: forward to having you guys. Sign up.
Speaker 1: Alrighty, thanks