Registration is open for the 2024 Extension Master Gardener training!
Training is online and classes are posted on Canvas on Monday with a Q and A with the Specialist or Expert presented on Thursday evening. Classes must be taken in order and completed by Sunday. You can miss one or two but must make these up and not get too far behind.
Cost is $150 for San Miguel or Mora county residents. Master Gardeners volunteer to teach research based gardening through community projects for 20 hours a year. After the intern year, 10 hours of Continuing Education is required usually covered in regular MG meetings.
Need more information or want to register? Call Yvonne Tallent, Leadership Team Leader at 281-813-9513 or email ytallent@gmail.com
Or Sunny Finley
Mora County Cooperative Extension
Program Director, Ag Agent & 4-H Educator
sunnyf@nmsu.edu
P.O. box 390 Mora NM 87732
1-575-387-2856
Mission
Through their trained volunteers, the Extension Master Gardener (EMG) Program seeks to preserve and beautify the environment while improving the quality of life in the community. Toward that goal, the EMG Program provides current research-based horticultural information to the public through education and outreach. The EMG Program promotes horticultural best management practices, sustainability, and environmental initiatives as developed by NMSU’s Cooperative Extension Service (CES) and the agricultural research programs of NMSU.
Purpose
The purpose of the Master Gardener Program is to train volunteers to be effective community educators in horticulture and environmental stewardship by providing to the public science-based information generated from research at NMSU and other university systems.
Extension Master Gardener
Are you interested in plants and gardening? Are you a life-long learner? Do you love to share what you're learning with others? The New Mexico Master Gardener Program has a place for you.
Learn more at: https://mastergardeners.nmsu.edu about the Extension Master Gardeners program.
San Miguel/Mora Extension Master Gardener Association offers Master Gardener classes every Spring. The Spring 2024 Online Program is open now.
For information call:
San Miguel County Extension Office
505-454-1497
or
Mora County Extension Office
575-387-2856
or
Yvonne Tallent, President
San Miguel/Mora County Extension Master Gardener Association
281-813-9513
president@smmemga.org
Contact: Info@SMMEMGA.org
NMSU is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer & educator. NMSU & the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture cooperating.
