Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Catherine Fenner" <c1fenner@comcast.net>]

USDA certifies master gardeners?

 

In my neck of the woods anyone qualified to be called a master gardener holds certification as a volunteer for universities/county and state agriculture. I'm in the states. Are there other types of people trained for that title in other areas of the US or internationally?

 

Part of the reason that I ask is that I see a lot of people calling themselves master gardeners who don't have any training or certification. It's a self-branding type of thing. When someone offers me that title I ask what college or university and county they volunteered for.

 

Catherine

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From: livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Nadine Hild
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 9:29 AM
To: Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Livingontheland] Jerry Baker

My introduction to Jerry Baker was by way of a Master Gardener who I was buying a Troy rototiller from.  He had had a problem with some trees in his orchard and had not been able to solve the problem.  He tried a remedy from Jerry Baker and had success.  He said he didn't know why it worked but it did--this from a USDA trained Master Gardener.