The goal of the class is to give the participants a good background in horticulture. In return for the training, each participant is asked to volunteer 40 hours of their time back to the community, Goodspeed says. After 40 hours of volunteer time is completed, they are awarded the Master Gardener Certificate. Many go well above and beyond the 40 hours of service with 79 percent working many additional hours. Four of our master gardeners over the last three years have spent hundreds of hours creating and maintaining community gardens.
Classes fill quickly.
If you think you have what it takes to be one of the few, the proud, the master gardeners, contact your local USU County Extension office. We offer our program to persons regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age or disability.