- Author: Amy Breschini
What's the goal of the Master Gardener program?
To deliver science-based gardening information from the University of California to the home gardener.
I keep hearing the term "Sustainable", what does that mean?
“meeting the needs of today’s population without diminishing the ability of future populations to meet their needs.”
or
"practices that help protect and nurture our natural resources in order to maintain a healthy agriculture system that can provide for the future demands."
How do I actually create a sustainable landscape?
Do we teach or give information out about organic gardening as Master Gardeners?
Actually we promote Integrated Pest Management (IPM). It is a strategy that uses environmentally sound, yet effective, ways to keep pests from invading your home, damaging your plants, or annoying you. Successful IPM usually combines several methods for long-term prevention and management of pest problems without harming you, your family, or the environment. In IPM, using pesticides may be an option, but when other nonchemical methods are used first, pesticides are often not needed. The determining factor of pesticide recommendations by UC IPM are based on choosing least harmful/toxic products to humans, animals and beneficial insects and protecting groundwater.
How do I know which plants are invasive?
Go to this website: http://www.cal-ipc.org/
Where does our UCCE funding come from?
The University of California (State of California), County of San Luis Obispo, Federal, Grants and Gifts/Donations.
- Author: Amy Breschini
Happy Spring!
There's always something new, isn't there? Today I noticed that our Pest Notes Flyer was from a 2009 version and voila! I found a new version! Thankfully the Pest Notes are constantly being updated so we have the latest and best information to pass along to the community.
I highly recommend keeping multiple copies of this list of current Pest Notes at all of the Master Gardener Events. It's an easy hand-out to use when helping people with gardening or pest questions, just circle the topics that they need to look, then they can log into the website and read the Pest Notes online. It saves paper and prevents us from having left over wasted copies at community events. Plus our file boxes were HEAVY!
On another note, it's important to not only check our internal VMS calendar for volunteer and education opportunities, but to check out our public website! Leann works really hard and up to the last minute to keep it current and Chris posts new articles into our blog to make the website interesting and always changing. It's always good to know what we are telling the public. Please feel free to pass this link to your friends, families and the general public, especially working at Farmer's Market, the Advice to Grow By workshops or answering questions on the Helpline. Remember our goal is to reach the community- so promote our website!
For those of you who need the website address, here it is! http://groups.ucanr.org/slomg/
Scroll to the bottom of this article to find the underlined link to the Pest Notes.
Pest Notes Flyer 2010
