Online Plant Reference
Retired Extension Horticulturist, Thomas E. Pope, PhD, and colleague, Neil Odenwald, PhD, retired head of School of Landcape Architure at LSU, spent several years making digital images of plants for the home garden.
These were made over the entire country -- Florida to Washington and Maine to California.
With endless hours of work, this has now evolved into a NATIONAL plant data base launched on the internet April 22, 2008:
There are over 8,000 images online at present and more than 2,000 waiting to be added. Approximately 2800 plant species are represented at this time with extensive cultural information on each. All is FREE
to any person registering on the site
In developing this, Master Gardeners were one of prime audiences targeted. This site is very user friendly and has extensive search features.
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Las Vegas International Master
Gardener Conference
"New Frontiers" in horticulture and gardening
March 22-29, 2009
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WV Master Gardener Conference Poster Sale
Linoleum block prints which are signed and numbered by the artist, Jon Raedeke. Limited quanitites available.
Click HERE for previews of the prints and for ordering information.
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Kanawha County Library Book Program
In June 1999 a committee formed to select gardening books, videos and CDs to contribute to the Kanawha County and South Charleston public libraries. KCMGA approved, by vote of the membership, spending $1500 for the purchase of these materials and a committee was formed to coordinate the purchase with the library system. Purchases were made in September of 1999, September of 2000 and again in 2001.
A complete article on the history of the book program may be found in our online Winter, 2001Garden Gate. The following list has been updated to include all purchases (books with an * are the most recent additions and are at the bottom of the Kanawha County list).
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Important Fact Sheets & Links to Invasives
from WVDA (WV Dept Agriculture)
Quarterly KCMGA meeting
TBA
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This is a newsletter for those interested in orchards and/or growing tree fruits.
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It was just last year that a group of West Virginia farmers and
marketers took steps to create a statewide farmers market association--the West Virginia Farmers Market Association (WVFMA) and, now this spring, they have grown a website.
In keeping with their objective to strengthen viability of farmers
markets across the state, the WVFMA just unveiled their new website. The site acts as a virtual resource to foster cooperation among members by overcoming challenges related to the production and marketing of agricultural products. It also seeks to help toward improving and sharing effective direct marketing activities.
To be found there is information on joining the WVFMA as well as links to farmers markets around the state who have taken advantage of this valuable network of producers and marketers. Some of these farmers markets and on-farm markets have never before had their own web page.
The WVFMA website intends to become a resource for industry and consumers alike. For the "locavore" in all of us, you can find the same links to WV Farmers Markets, to delicious recipes using fresh and local ingredients and to a Harvest Calendar which describes when you can expect local produce to be picked.
"This website is a wonderful resource for West Virginia farmers markets to network and problem solve on a virtual level. The agriculture producer's office hours start before the sun comes up and end after the sun goes down. A resource that is accessible 24/7 is of tremendous value," said Jack Dunbar, WVFMA President, of Breezy Heights Farm, Sinks Grove, WV.
"The WVFMA also plans to stay in touch with farmers and marketers through the publication of a newsletter. If you'd like to sign up for it, please let us know," offered Susan Sauter, the new group's treasurer, and also board member of the Morgantown Farmers Market. The newsletter will be available in hard copy or electronically, with the latter preferred.
The WVFMA was formed with guidance from the WVU Extension Service and the Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences and through a WV Department of Agriculture Specialty Crops Grant.
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