The Grapevine
March 2008
Newsletter of the
New River Valley Master Gardener
Association
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Calendar
March
27 VT Hort Garden Seminar,
Some Like it Hot: Tropical Plants for Temperate Gardens, 6:30-8:30 p.m Questions?
(540) 231-5970 or e-mail vtgarden@vt.edu or visit http://www.hort.vt.edu/hhg/index.html
for more information.
March
27 MG Trainee Class on Soil
Basics, Location: Hahn Garden Pavilion, Time: 6:30-9:30pm, Certified
MGs may attend this session for education credit.
March
25 MG Trainee Class on Plant
Pathology, Location: Hahn Garden Pavilion, Time: 6:30-9:30pm. Certified MGs may attend this session for
education credit.
March
29 Rain Barrel training day.
See description for April 19. Contact Barry Robinson, brobinso@vt.edu,
for more information.
April
9 Employee Health Fair, Montgomery
County. MGs will provide materials/info on "Gardening for Your
Health" including topics such as horticulture therapy, exercise, and doing
the work properly. Preparation time and staffing the booth are both
eligible for Service hours. Contact Barry Robinson, brobinso@vt.edu, for
more information and to sign up to volunteer.
April
9 MG Board Meeting.
6pm-6:45pm. Contact Garland Linkous, linkousg@msn.com
April
17 MG General Membership Meeting,
Topic and Speaker TBA
April
19 Tree planting session at Town
of Blacksburg tree nursery
April
19 Rain Barrel project in
Blacksburg. Up to 10 hours is approved for Service time and the rest is
counted as Contributed time. Contact Barry Robinson, brobinso@vt.edu, for
more information and to let him know if you are interested in volunteering.
April
22 MG Trainee Class on Arboriculture, Location: To Be
Determined, Time: 6:30-9:30pm, Speaker: Barry Robinson. Certified MGs may
attend this session for education credit.
April
26 Green Home Seminar and Home Tours.
Assistance is needed for getting the word out, distributing posters, setup, and
logistics before and the day of. Contact Barry Robinson, brobinso@vt.edu,
for more information and to let him know if you are interested in
volunteering.
New River Valley Master Gardeners
The New River Valley Master
Gardener Association is a nonprofit organization working in conjunction with
the Montgomery County Cooperative Extension Service to bring horticultural
education and enjoyment to people in the New River Valley.
The Grapevine
welcomes news, articles, questions, and comments. The Grapevine is published monthly and provided to all active
members of the NRVMGA. Non-members may subscribe for $15/yr. Please submit all
items to the Newsletter Editor by the
25th in order to be included in next month’s issue.
Officers
Garland Linkous,
President (linkousg@msn.com)
Don Rude, Vice President
(dwr@vt.edu)
Evelyn Melia, Treasurer
(meliano@adelphia.net)
Gwen Ewing, Secretary (ewinggf@vt.edu)
Bill Martin,
Member-at-Large (wmhmartin06@verizon.net)
Sally Shrader,
Member-at-Large (sallys@vt.edu)
Dan Joyce,
Member-at-Large
Open Position, Trainee
Member-at-Large
Rich Conners, Past
President (rconners@vt.edu)
Communications
Lynn Brammer, Newsletter Distribution
(lbrammer@vt.edu)
Melanie Gevedon, Newsletter Editor
(briarhopperz@hotmail.com)
Paula Moore, Webmaster and Listserv Administrator
(moorep@andassoc.com)
VCE Master Gardener
Program
Barry Robinson, Extension Agent (brobinso@vt.edu)
Contact Us:
NRVMGA
NRV MGA Website: http://civic.bev.net/nrvmga
(Membership Dues, Grants and General Correspondence)
P.O. Box 747, Blacksburg, VA 24063
Listserv:
nrvmga@listserv.bburg.bev.net
Virginia Cooperative
Extension –
Montgomery County Office
Website:
www.ext.vt.edu
(MG Coordinator and Timesheets)
755 Roanoke Street, Suite 1G,
Christiansburg, VA 24073
(540) 382-5790 Fax: (540) 382-5729
NRVMGA
TREASURER REPORT
February 29, 2008
Balance on Jan 31 3446.20
Income
Membership 405.00
Total Income 405 .00
Expenses
Printing
Grapevine 43.36
Total Expenses 43.36
Balance on Jan 31 3807.84
Ameriprise
7549.96
Respectfully
submitted
Evelyn Melia
Treasurer
NEWS
The VT Child Development Center received one of our
school grants in 2007. If you are on campus, stop by Wallace Hall and view the
Neighbors Gardening program pictures.
February Meeting Minutes
February
19, 2008 NRVMGA General Association meeting
6:30
at the County Supervisors board room at the C’burg Gov’t center.
Present:
Garland Linkous, President (linkousg@msn.com);
Don Rude, Vice President (dwr@vt.edu)
Evelyn Melia, Treasurer (meliano@adelphia.net)
Gwen Ewing, Secretary (ewinggf@vt.edu)
Bill Martin, Member-at-Large (wmhmartin06@verizon.net)
Sally Shrader, sallys@vt.edu,
Member-at-Large
Allen Bame, Member-at-Large has been replaced by Dan Joyce, Member-at-Large
VCE Master Gardener Program, Barry Robinson, Extension
Agent (brobinso@vt.edu)
Additions to
the Board:
Melanie Gevedon
(briarhopperz@hotmail.com)
Paula Moore,
(moorep@andassoc.com)
Welcome by Garland. Please
attend the Executive Board meetings,
you are most welcome. Next Executive meeting April 9,
2nd Wednesday, 6 pm,
Christiansburg Rescue Hall, 2nd
floor conf. room
These meetings are a great way
to learn more about the NRV MG Association.
Another way is to join a committee(s).
One of the committees needing assistance is the Plant Clinic committee. Coordinator Meg Whelton
explained her role and asked for assistance organizing members to
volunteer for plant clinics.
Another committee needing help is the School Grant committee, which needs to have the application revamped with criteria
specified of what is funded and what items will not be funded,
Discussion from the Executive Board meeting; School Grants: Garland addressed the School Grants - he agrees that signage should be on all NRVMGA projects. The School Grants should have an Educational
component, photos, documentation, MG
Mentors.. The application needs more
criteria and list of items that will not be funded. Also to design/write the newspaper ad.
- The school grants are
advertised in Oct/Nov, Money given in Jan/February and projects are started right
away, usually January to the end
of the school year (june).
Audit: Bill
Martin he
will be reviewing the bylaws, if
interested in helping Bill, please contact him.
Bill accepted
membership forms and fees.
Barry explained that we are all VCE Master Gardeners, and
we have an option of being in the NRVMGAssociation. And listed some
volunteer activities that he will email us more information about. Health Fair,, Tree planting,, transplanting , for example.
Program:
Elizabeth Gilboy; explained
a new program just being organized for
Rain Barrels in Blacksburg, workshops will be held for homeowners in the Stoubles Creek
watershed. Workshops will be held April
19 and May 3. Many of our MGers are
interested in being guineapigs at a
dry run workshop March 29. The presenters need to learn the steps to
make wash out pickle barrels or pepsi barrels,
to create rainbarrels, so they can teach the official workshops with
less hitches.
Respectfully submitted,
Gwen Ewing
NRVMGA Secretary
March Meeting
New River
Valley Master Gardener Association
6:30 PM on Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Topic: Gypsy Moth Presentation by Charles
Putnum
Location: Mid-County Park (Frog Pond),
Cinnabar Lane, in the Activities Center (double-wide)
