2017 CCMGA Winter Party - December 2 - Boyd County Extension Office

The CCMGA Winter Party will be held on December 3 at the Boyd County Extension Office. We will caravan or car pool leaving Enslow Park Presbyterian Church at 10:15 am. If you are planning to drive, you can find the Boyd County Extension Office at 2420 Center Street, Catlettsburg KY. The festivities begin at 11 am, Ham will be provided but members are asked to bring a side or dessert to share. Please give Jane Wilson a call or email (jackjanewilson@gmail.com or 304-416-1840)  to let her know how many will be coming, what side dish you plan to bring and whether you wish to make one or more wreaths. CCMGA members can bring one adult guest if desired.

Our host, Lori Bowling will be doing the education segment of our meeting showing us how to make beautiful wreaths that are suitable for holiday displays and make great gifts. Members and guests can make wreaths for $15 each.

Please remember that dues ($16) can now be paid for 2018. You can give your dues to Treasurer, Tom Bell at the December 2 meeting or mail the dues to:

CCMGA
PO Box 7661
Huntington, WV 25578-7661

Directions to the Boyd County Extension Office

Take Interstate 64 westbound to Exit 191 which is the first exit after crossing into Kentucky.  Take Route 23 northbound for about 8.6 miles passing under the underpass to the right to Catlettsburg. At the "Y" in the road take a right turn followed by an immediate left onto Center Street.  Follow Center Street for 2.8 miles to the corner with 25th Street.  The Boyd County Extension Office will be on the left across from Neal Funeral Home.  If you pass the Grandview Manor high rise you have gone too far.  Plenty of parking is available in the Extension Office lot.  The drive from Enslow Park Presbyterian Church should take less than 30 minutes.

 

Directions to the Boyd County Extension Office are available through Google Maps with the link below:

Boyd County Extension Office

2016 CCMGA Winter Party

The 2016 CCMGA Winter Party was quite a success. The new officers for 2017-18 were installed, Master Gardeners In-Training were certified as full Master Gardeners, our host, Lori Bowling, guided us in making wreaths and we enjoyed a lot of great food. Our attendance was over 20 and everyone had a great time. Our group photographer, Victor Simpson, got some great shots of the event.

Thanks to CCMGA Photographer Victor Simpson.  More of his photos of the 2016 Winter Party are available HERE - https://goo.gl/photos/GXoF5jxLrnTaWAiX9

2016 CCMGA Winter Party - December 3 - Boyd County Extension Office

The CCMGA Winter Party will be held on December 3 at the Boyd County Extension Office. We will caravan or car pool leaving Enslow Park Presbyterian Church at 10:15 am. If you are planning to drive, you can find the Boyd County Extension Office at 2420 Center Street, Catlettsburg KY. The festivities begin at 11 am, Ham will be provided but members are asked to bring a side or dessert to share. Please give Jane Wilson a call or email (jackjanewilson@gmail.com or 304-416-1840) by Monday, November 28th to let her know how many will be coming, what side dish you plan to bring and whether you wish to make one or more wreaths. CCMGA members can bring one adult guest if desired.

Our host, Lori Bowling will be doing the education segment of our meeting showing us how to make beautiful wreaths that are suitable for holiday displays and make great gifts. Members and guests can make wreaths for $10 each.

The business portion of the meeting will be very brief. The primary agenda items are to welcome the new CCMGA officers:President – Dr. Kevin Smith
Vice President – Lisa Bell
Recording Secretary – Dr. Judy Silver
Corresponding Secretary – Nancy Prino
Treasurer – Tom Bell

Please remember that dues ($16) can now be paid for 2017. You can give your dues to Treasurer, Debbie Martin at the December 3 meeting or mail the dues to:

CCMGA

PO Box 7661

Huntington, WV 25578-7661

Taking better photos of our gardens – November 10 meeting

We had an outstanding education session at our November 10 meeting in which local photography buffs, Tim Hardesty and Joe Browning gave us great advice on shooting our gardens.  Regardless of our photographic ability, gardening interest or the type of camera we have, we all came away inspired to take more pictures of our gardens.  Joe & Tim have given us their handouts that are available by clicking the links below:

Tips for Photographing our Gardens

Steps to Better Flower Images

In the business portion of our meeting we discussed the WVMG service and education requirements and the accompanying changes in bylaws that we will be making.  We approved the 2016 budget and learned more about the upcoming MGIT classes.  We had an update on the 2016 CCMGA meeting schedule and announced that a caravan to the Boyd County Extension Office will leave Enslow Park Presbyterian Church at 10:15 for our December 5 meeting/wreath making/Christmas party.  Meat will be provided for the Christmas party but members are asked to bring a side dish or dessert to share.  Our evening closed with an optional educational session on using the CCMGA website.

Connie will have our meeting minutes posted to the website soon.

Plans for December 6 CCMG Christmas Party

Hey, everybody!

This month's meeting was small but lively. We had a general discussion of gardening issues--pests (living and nonliving), pest control (cats rock!), bees, their role and their prognosis for survival, cool plant adaptations . . . you name it, we hit it. It was fun.

We discussed the December meeting that is to be held in Catlettsburg on Saturday, December 6 at the Boyd County Extension Office. We need an RSVP from you by December 1st in order to prepare! Those who know where the office is can meet there in Catlettsburg on December 6 at 11:00 a.m.; those who would like to caravan will need to be at Enslow Park Presbyterian Church in order to depart at 10:30 a.m.

Please let us know how many (including yourself and an adult guest) will be coming. Please bring a side dish that will be sufficient to serve 6 to 8 people. If you'd like to make a wreath, Lori Bowling will have the materials there. Wreaths will be $10.00 each--some people have made two in the past, so if you'd like to do that, just bring twenty bucks. :-)

There will be door prizes as usual. Lori said she'd be happy to do an artificial wreath-making demo for us as well, which is awesome. If we can learn to make nice wreaths from something other than evergreen cuttings, we can sell them at the Wild Ramp in different seasons to continue that project and fundraiser. We're also planning to make a few extra wreaths to take to the Ramp that week as previews of our wreath-making demo the following weekend.

Speaking of the Wild Ramp wreath-making project, it's moving right along! Here's a request from that project group for all of you. Is anyone planning to trim up their evergreens now? The wreath-makers would love to have things like fresh holly cuttings with berries on them and limbs with pine cones. If you're planning to do any pruning, wait (if you can) for just a bit longer and either bring those cuttings with you on December 6 or bring them to the Wild Ramp the morning of December 13. Those would be most appreciated!

That event is already being advertised by the Ramp as a demonstration, and a number of their Facebook followers are already planning to attend. Hopefully we can use this as an excellent opportunity to tell people more about the Cabell County Master Gardeners program. MGITs, remember that you need 30 volunteer hours by May 1, 2015, so if you'd like to participate in this project, please contact us ASAP and we'll add you to the roster.

Our last bit of EXCELLENT news is that we now appear to have nominees for all the officer positions for the next term. Woohoo! This is a great load off our minds, and I think the group that's coming in is going to do a *fabulous* job over the next couple of years. Let's all plan to pitch in and help make it the best experience we possibly can for them!

Again, please RSVP to ccmgemail@gmail.com absolutely no later than December 1 for the December 6 meeting/party! Hope to see everyone there. :-)

Take care everybody,

Wendy