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Sat, Oct 10, 09 at 11:47
| Like many other MG programs, ours is looking for ways to be more effective. To that end, we're reviewing what qualifies as a project and how to assess its value to the community.
If your program has lists of projects, I'd love to see them. Some websites have links to them, but most don't. And how are your programs evaluating outcomes? Are you asked simply to count the number of contacts? Do you have some way of assessing behavioral changes? Any information you can pass along would be MUCH appreciated. |
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- Posted by gardenguru1950 SunsetZ16 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 10, 09 at 12:37
| toad: Do you know about GardenWeb's Master Gardener forum? Joe |
Here is a link that might be useful: GardenWeb Master Gardeners Forum
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| Thanks gardenguru1950. I did post a similar message there, but it's been nearly 6 weeks with no response. So I figured it's not all that active a forum. As a former Californian, I thought I'd give this forum a try. |
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| I'm just a home gardener & not sure if you are talking about community projects or what. But I'll throw in my 2cents. There is a park in San Fernando that took forever to get done & it is the ugliest park I've ever seen. I drive by it going places all the time & 1 time in over a yr I've seen 1 person walking with a stroller in it. It has wrought iron fence around it with stone pillars which is nice, It is locked up at night. It covers just this corner so isn't more than 1/2 of a normal block. The problem is almost no trees, hot looking & mostly different kinds of grasses that look like allergy center to me. Other parks in area are busy even when the grass was more brown than green. But they have trees. Apparently the object is just to walk through it & leave. Cement sidewalk is nice & wanders around but grasses are so tall someone could jump out & rob you, or gang could be hiding. I can't imagine what they were thinking. If they had put some grass, some benches cemented in ground & few trees the place would probably be busy. What is value of park no one will go & enjoy. It is mostly brownish, grayish, blackish looking. Not my vision of a park. Kids would probably get hurt on those grasses as some look very sharp. City of S.F. also changed MaClay St & nobody likes it. It was been changed to 1 lane each way & has huge planter sticking out into the street with same grasses. A few are attractive but most look so hot & dried up looking, maybe they are dead can't tell. So you get to weave down the street going from 1 lane to 2 & back down to 1. I thought it was to put in sidewalk cafes or give area a homey feeling but don't see that happening. They have banned most trucks. Maybe they hired new people because right before both projects there were the most beautiful flowers in the median, oriental poppies in all colors had me going on MaClay just to look at them. At times they have done beautiful landscaping so at 1 time they did know how. Near Brand Park it used to be lovely. So are you talking only to Master Gardeners about something they do or community projects or what?? |
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| As a Washington state resident you are where the Master Gardener movement started, and as you know it is nation wide sponsored by the state university in each state. It is commendable that as a member you want to more effective, but you need to look to the correct forum. Have you tried contacting the state programs directly? They have the freedom to vary widely. Al |
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