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2012 Sept JMG State Coordinator Updates

•Building a Vegetable Garden

Certification

•Growums Fundraiser

•JMG Online Registration

•Youth Gardening of Community of

Practice

Junior Master Gardener®

Level OneCore Curriculum

Teacher/Leaders’ Guide

JMG YouthHandbook

Junior Master Gardener®

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Level One Curricula

JMG® Certification for Youth Become a certified

Junior Master Gardener®

Golden Ray Seriessm certification of youth

Complete 1 group activity per teaching concept in each chapter

Complete 1 individual activity per teaching concept in each chapter

Complete 1 community service/ leadership project per chapter

Certified Junior Master Gardener®

Golden Ray Series Certifications

•  Plant Growth & Development• Soils & Water• Insects & Plant Diseases• Ecology & Environmental Horticulture• Landscape Horticulture• Fruit & Nutrition• Vegetables & Herbs• Life Skills & Career Exploration• new! Growing a Vegetable Garden

•Health & Nutrition from the Garden

•Wildlife Gardener

•Literature in the Garden

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curriculum

or in one chapter/theme

Golden Ray Series Certification

In depth study of a chapter1. any combination of 12 activities2. completing 1 Life Skills/Career Exploration activity3. participating in 1 service project

The newest JMG curriculum is developed around soils and water concepts.

Building a Vegetable Garden Certificatio

nHamburger Plants (p.3)Home Sweet Home (p.157)Know & Show Sombrero (p.4)Make Your Pick (p.159)Small & Large (p.160)Rules are Rules (p.161)Schedule It (p.162)

Building a Vegetable Garden Certificatio

nPaper Towel Gardening (p.165)  or Tender Transplants (p.167)

Plant Parts Rap (p.8)Building Bins & Compost Sandwiches (p.31)Oxygen Factory (p.17)Garden to the Table (p.171)

Plant a Seed (p.199, from Life Skills & Career Exploration Chapter)

program partnership:

JMG/Growums Fundraiser

• JMG/Youth Gardening Community of Practice

• JMG/Youth Gardening Community of Practice

• network of stakeholders working/learning/evolving together to maximize impact

• 2012 National eXtension Conference

annual fall registration

JMG State CoordinatorGoTo Updates

•Frequency

•Date/time

•20/10

•Format

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