Re: was Master Gardeners/ Garden clubs

Ceres, your program sounds like a wonderful example. My location is the
2nd largest city in Indiana and our CES is on the IPFW campus. But there
are no ag/hort courses offered at this Purdue location - one must travel
to West Lafayette for that. Therefore, there are no university
instructors; the Hort Ed teaches all the classes with the aid of MGs and
an occasional guest speaker.


We give callbacks on recorded phoned in questions, too. But this is done
during CES office hours. I'm not about to take a vacation day to spend
my time on the phone. I think Cathy in IL mentioned doing her callbacks
from home so they can be done in the evening.

Kitty

> In a message dated 11/10/03 10:06:38 AM, kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
> 
> <<  Questions
> from the community via telephone arrive during business hours. >>
> 
> Questions coming into our county office are taken by our paid coordinator or 
> recorder and then volunteers respond within a day or two at that scheduled 
> work time.
>     For the most part our classes are taught by the univ staff by ICN which 
> has interactive capability and thus serving the state.  One weekend is 
> scheduled during the course which is spent at the univ in their greenhouses and 
> labs.
>     Our vol hr return has greatly increased the past few years and we 
> continue to have a waiting list of candidates even with two classes last year.  
> Our 
> new MGs are an unbelievable group with great talents, interests and enthusiasm. 
>  I know this is not true state wide in more remote, less populated counties.
>     Ceres
> 
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