Re: Master Gardeners

**m* l* <m*@earthlink.net>**

Jeff, the Master Gardener program in the U.S. is a part of the 
state's agricultural university Extension services beyond their 
campuses.  The Extension agents technically are faculty members of 
those universities.  Agricultural universities rake in a lot of money 
from chemical companies for research projects, so they are beholden 
to the chemical companies.  Extension agents have mellowed to the 
point that one must always give out the synthetic chemical 
information first, then if pressed by a taxpayer who wants an organic 
solution, a MG may say "well, such-and-such is used by some people, 
but hasn't definitely been proven successful."  Margaret Lauterbach

At 02:54 PM 1/10/2009, you wrote:
>Our Master Gardener program is run by Julie Riley, a member of GWA I
>believe.  She is fantastic and has developed a great group of
>volunteers. As a columnist and radio guy, I send folks to her office
>all the time for advice and help.
>
>I do  object to the inclusion of chemical stuff in the MG program
>nationally. Gardeners have no business playing with chemicals, IHMO
>and admittedly after half a life of doing so.
>
>In the mean time, Doreen and I have been emailing about the cold. It
>has been awful below zero here for 10 days with no relief. Ugh.
>
>Doug, no smugness from you in Key West.....
>
>Cheers,
>
>jeff

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