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Impact Report
| For plan | Plant Management Systems: Urban Horticulture (Bernalillo County) |
| Date | October 26, 2011, 3:39 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | While Agent is no longer the Horticulture Agent in this county, he continues to provide much programming and information in this area. Formal evaluation of programs and presentations is very limited, being basically two Master Gardener presentations for the Albuquerque Area Extension Master Gardeners. The results of those evaluations are herein provided, as a reasonable snapshot of clientele reaction to this Agent as an educator. For a presentation titled Trees for the Albuquerque Area, 38 persons responded to the survey. Scoring was on a 1-10 basis, with 10 being highly favorable, and scores were requested in the areas of Scope, Usefulness, Organization, Content, Met Expectations and Would Recommend to Others (two other areas were scored, Handouts and Visual Aids, but the Agent did not provide handouts and many did not respond on Visual Aids, so those numbers are not reported here). In the order presented above, Agent’s scores were: 9.47, 9.63, 9.58, 9.55, 9.47 and 9.55. Typical comments ran along the line of: “Well informed, great slides, good sense of humor”, “Extremely informative! One of the best lectures yet!”, and “Information matched with practical examples – very good”. Not everyone was pleased, however. One responder gave relatively low rankings and commented, “BORING – and something I could look up on my own”. For the presentation on Diagnostic Process, 29 people responded, and gave rankings (in the order above) of 9.41, 9.41, 9.28, 9.28, 9.34 and 9.38. Again, most comments were quite favorable, but the same disappointed audience member returned scores from 0 to 5, with the comment that “didn’t enjoy – BORING. Not a lot of useful information”. Can’t win them all, apparently. Agent taught classes for Sandoval, San Juan, Santa Fe and Valencia County Master Gardeners, as well, on Botany, Plant ID, Arboriculture, and Diagnostic Process. Other programming not fitting into the main areas listed below included talks/presentations on edible weeds; basic xeriscape principles; aquatic plants; compost, organic matter and soils; and garden weeds. Agent also provided Pesticide Applicator CEU workshop for the Bernalillo County Open Space Land Management workers, and hosted monthly meetings of an informal beekeepers group here in Albuquerque. |