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Winter Dreams /Summer Gardens 2024

Barbara Low
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The Jackson County Master Gardener Association is very fortunate to offer a wonderful educational opportunity to its members and people in our community.  The Winter Dreams/ Summer Gardens Symposium (WDSG) is an educational opportunity for people to learn more about a variety of gardening topics.   We have gone from providing this as a strictly in-person educational event, to providing it as a virtual event.  We can now record the presentations and make them available to those who register for WDSG.  People are able to view the presentation(s) more than once from their home until the end of December.

This year we had 16 wonderful presentations on a wide range of topics.  Presenters hailed from California and across the state of Oregon.  We had several of our own JCMGA members as presenters as well – Regina Boykins, Bonni Engelhardt, Grace Florjancic, Marcie Katz, Susan Koenig, Lynn Kunstman, Barbara Low, and Marsha Waite.  A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR PRESENTERS!!

In 2022 we started asking Winter Dreams/ Summer Gardens participants to complete an evaluation survey.  Our working group uses the information gained from the survey to plan for the next event.  For those of you who participated in Winter Dreams/ Summer Gardens 2024, please complete and submit the evaluation survey which you will receive via email.  We rely upon your suggestions to improve and expand this event so it meets the needs of gardeners.

I want to thank this year’s Winter Dreams/ Summer Gardens Working Group for all their hard work.  Members include Colet Allen, Blake Elliott, Teresa Jarratt, Susan Koenig, and me.  They have spent hours brainstorming and planning the details for this event. They even spent an afternoon preparing flyers to mail to landscapers.  We have expanded our audience to include landscapers in Oregon so they can earn continuing education hours to recertify their landscaper’s licenses.

I also want to give a special shout out to:

  • Nicole Smith – for her help in sending out the MailChimps and posting information on Facebook
  • Tina Elliott and Sandy O’Neill – for their help with the social media
  • Keltie Nelson – for her help in expanding our outreach
  • JCMGA Board – for their continued support

A big “Thank You” to all who were presenters and/or hosts, and to those who attended the sessions.