Master Gardener Volunteer Training Offered in Ferry County

Ferry County Extension is pleased to announce that a Master Gardener training will be held in Ferry County! We will train local Master Gardener Volunteers to provide public education to Ferry County communities. Master Gardeners answer the public’s questions about home horticulture and landscaping topics – evaluating plant and insect samples, making plant selection suggestions, and distributing other reliable, research-based information.

Volunteers, for a registration fee, are provided with an Extension training course on topics ranging from soil fertility to growing vegetables to landscape design. In return they are asked to give 40 volunteer service hours in the first year. Each following year, to remain active, Master Gardeners give 25 service hours and 10 hours of continuing education classes. Ferry County Volunteers donate time to plant disease and pest diagnosis, providing public community education gardening classes, helping answer gardening questions to the public, organizing garden tours, writing news articles on gardening, judging 4-H Gardens, and other activities. If you have some time to spare and would like to serve your community, while increasing your gardening knowledge and skills, you should consider becoming a WSU Master Gardener. 

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact the WSU Ferry County Extension Office Master Gardener Coordinator Ann Miller at (509) 775-2281 or the Extension office by December 15, 2011. Volunteer interviews will be held January 9-12. Training Workshops will begin January 26th.

Master Gardener Program Application 
Pest Management Recommendation Agreement
Photo Release Forms