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Who
are the Master Gardeners?
All across the United States there are volunteer Master Gardener organizations that work with the Extension Service and their communities to provide educational services to gardeners. Here in New Mexico the first program to be established was in Bernalillo County in 1981 by Jim Saiz. Training was also available to surrounding counties and later those counties established their own programs. As the need arose and resources became available this web site, the first MG web site for the state, was begun (in 2000) as a service to the community. Below is a listing of all the current NM programs. To contact the Extension agent for the various counties where programs exist write or call to the various counties. They can put you in touch with the volunteers for their counties. Some counties also have web sites for their volunteers and these are also listed below.
Bernalillo County
Joran Viers
bernalillo@nmsu.edu
(505) 243-1386
http://www.nmmastergardeners.org This web site
http://www.gardeningfromthegroundup.us R. Bronson's alternate site.
Albuquerque Master Gardeners, Albuquerque gardening information
Chaves
County
James Duffey
chaves@nmsu.edu
(505) 622-3210
Curry County
Stan Jones
curry@nmsu.edu
(505) 763-6505
Doņa Ana
County
John White
donaana@nmsu.edu
(505) 525-6649
Eddy County
Woods Houghton
eddy@nmsu.edu
(505) 887-6596
Lea County
(Joint Program with Otero County)
Wallace Cox
lea@nmsu.edu
(505) 396-2819
Lincoln
County
Pete Gnatkowski
lincoln@nmsu.edu
(505) 648-2311
Los
Alamos County
Carlos Valdez
losalamos@nmsu.edu
(505) 662-2656
http://www.losalamos.org
Luna
County
Phil Hibner
phil@nmsu.edu
(505) 546-8806
Navajo Nation
Gerald Moore
Otero County
Phil Wright
otero@nmsu.edu
(505) 437-0231
Sandoval
County
Rudy Benavidez
sandoval@nmsu.edu
(505) 867-2582
San Juan
County
Gary Hathorn
sanjuan@nmsu.edu
(505) 334-9496
Santa Fe
County
Pat Torres
santafe@nmsu.edu
(505) 471-4711
Taos County
Ray Torres
taos@nmsu.edu
(505) 758-3982
Valencia County
Frank Holguin
valencia@nmsu.edu
(505) 841-5301
All Master Gardeners have received specialized training to help with educating the public on gardening. This web site was designed, paid for, and managed by one of those Master Gardeners to provide on-line help to the public. All materials may be downloaded and copied and distributed as long as those materials are being used for educational purposes and are not being sold by you.
Our Constitution states "We, the Albuquerque Area Master Gardeners, in order to provide plant science and practical horticulture learning opportunities by which local gardeners may become Master Gardeners, to plan and develop advanced training experiences for them, to increase their knowledge of botany and related sciences, to conduct all types of educational or service activities related to home gardening as volunteers cooperating with and with the support of the Bernalillo County Cooperative Extension Service and the Council of Albuquerque Garden Clubs, Inc., of which we are a member, and to help promote and support botanical and horticultural beautification and ecological projects planned by the City of Albuquerque and the County of Bernalillo, do hereby establish the Albuquerque Area Master Gardeners Association."
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10/07/2006