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Impact Report

For plan Plant Management Systems: Urban Horticulture (Santa Fe County)
Date October 30, 2009, 6:16 pm
For Objective Medium-term Show medium-term objectives
Impact Report Due to the County Agents having other prior work commitments during the month of March, 2 Master Gardeners were asked by the Agent to speak to the Rancho Viejo Neighborhood Association about the Principles of Xeriscape and also to a new garden club called Design and Grow about Coldframes and Their Uses. The reason that these requests came to the Extension Office was due to the fact that the Agent had advised some members of this particular neighborhood association last year on the management of their landscape, and the request from garden club chair came as a result of her familiarity with Cooperative Extension Service in the state that she moved from as being a reputable source of information. Seventeen people were in attendance at the neighborhood association meeting while only 10 attended the the garden club meeting. During the month June the Agent made a one-hour presentation to the an all ladies group of the LDS Church in Santa Fe. The group was interested in Container Gardening. This request came as a result of people taking a renewed interest in growing some of their own food. Aside from the presentation, the group present asked many other questions relative to vegetable, fruit and flower gardening. The discussion were very interactive with the 14 ladies present. Educational presentations on horticultural topics were made at the April and May monthly meetings of the Rainbow Makers Homemaker Club. The club of 14 women were interested in care and management of flowering bulbs, and about soils and fertility. The presentations and discussions that followed were very interactive with several expressing that the presentations explained why they were having problems with some of their gardening practices. At the request of the chair of the Santa Fe Herb Society, a 30 minute slide presentation was made during the month of March to the 14 member of the society about the the Santa Fe Master Gardener Program. The discussion was held following the presentation. Upon completion of the program, the society chair presented a $50 check to the Agent for the Master Gardeners to use to continue some more of their good work.