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Impact Report
| For plan | Environmentally sustainable turfgrass management |
| Date | January 5, 2009, 7:48 pm |
| For Objective | Medium-term Show medium-term objectives |
| Impact Report | A total of 54% of the participants in the statewide 2008 Master Gardener program believed that traditional turf areas waste great amounts of water that could be better used elsewhere. After a 3 month period of seminar series, the opinion that turf wastes water dropped to 19% among all surveyed Master Gardeners. A total of 64% of all participants in the statewide program requested additional training in the area of turfgrass irrigation. In Santa Fe County, the preconceived notion of turf representing an “unnecessary and water-guzzling” ground cover is widespread and prevalent and 60% of all participants in the Master Gardener program considered this statement to be true prior to the training seminar. A total of 48% of all participants reconsidered their opinion and only 12% of the participants believed that turf wastes water after the training. |