Pike County ANR
The Pike County Extension Agriculture program
provides education, training and technical assistance to individuals and
businesses concerned with profitable agriculture. Our educational programs
include information on food and fiber production, farm business management,
marketing and processing agricultural products, natural resource management and
home lawn and garden information. Extension is the major provider of
research-based information and education for agricultural producers,
agri-businesses, retailers, and consumers.
For more information, contact Kendall
B. Combs, County Extension Agent for Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Click here to
see
Pike County Master Gardeners in action.
Pike County Master Gardener
Association (PCMGA)
The PCMGA was formed March 4th, 2003 by graduates of the county’s
first Kentucky Master Gardener program in the fall of 2002. There have been
three subsequent classes, one each in Pikeville, Lower Johns Creek, and Belfry.
Eventually, it is hoped that there will be chapters of the PCMGA in most areas
of Pike County.
The co-chairs
of the Belfry Chapter of the PCMGA are Edith Blackburn and Mickey Slater and
Eunice Williamson is the secretary/treasurer. The current chair of the
Pikeville Chapter of the PCMGA is Kathy Bentley and secretary/treasurer is
Bonita Rose.
The PCMGA is
committed to improving horticulture skills, encouraging good gardening,
landscaping, lawn management practices, the proper use of herbicides and
pesticides, preserving heirloom seeds, complementing food nutrition, and
expanding earned income through horticulture.
The Belfry
Chapter of the PCMGA meets the first Thursday of the month at 9 a.m. at the
Belfry Public Library.
The Pikeville
Chapter of the PCMGA meets the first Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. at the
Pike County Extension office, 148 Trivette Drive in Pikeville. If you’re not a
graduate of the Kentucky Master Gardener Program, you can still be an associate
member of the PCMGA.
If you are not a
graduate of the Kentucky Master Gardener Program, you can still be an associate
member of the PCMGA.
See
http://ces.ca.uky.edu/pike/news/kentucky_master_gardener_program.htm
for more information about the PCMGA
including a list of graduates and those who have subsequently earned their
certification as a Kentucky Master Gardener.
Contact Tim
Campbell or Brian Combs, Pike County Extension (606-432-2534) for more
information.
Belfry Chapter of the PCMGA visits the
county landfill at Fords Branch (L-R): Edith Blackburn, Chris Moon,
Joe King, Eunice Williamson, Ethyl West, Gary Moon and Sheila Moon. April
8, 2004
Pike County Master Gardeners (L-R)
Phyllis Coe, Peggy Davis, Genoa Castle and Rosemary Legge with Bill Forsythe
(co-owner of Dils Cemetery), in the foreground, looking at the results of
landscaping at Dils Cemetary and Gardens above Pikeville.
June 10, 2004.
Kentucky Master Gardener Program
Subjects covered include:
selecting and planting woody plants and care of trees and shrubs, soils
and fertilizers, botany, indoor plant selection and care, propagation, annual
and perennial flowers, vegetable gardening, landscape design and lawn
maintenance, growing fruits, Home composting and organic gardening, plant
pathology, entomology, pesticides, overview of Master Gardener Program and
Cooperative Extension, conflict prevention/resolution, and negotiation.
Long-term objective:
Improve gardening skills, create a pool of people willing to apply their
gardening skills in community projects such as beautification, community
gardens, youth gardening, heirloom gardening and seed preservation, better
maintenance of lawns and gardens, interpretative trails, butterfly gardens and
more. The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service in Pike County
supports its Master Gardeners but gardeners decide which projects they’ll
support.
Cost: $70. This covers the cost of the
manual, snacks, and the Kentucky Master Gardener nametag (upon certification).
Note: Scholarships are available.
Who to call: Tim Campbell or Brian Combs at Pike
County Extension, 432-2534 or by E-mail at
tcamp@uky.edu or
kbcombs@uky.edu or go to
http://ces.ca.uky.edu/pike/news/kentucky_master_gardener_program.htm
INSTRUCTORS: Kendall Brian Combs, Pike County
Cooperative Extension Service Agent for Agriculture and Natural Resources and
Tim Campbell, Pike County Cooperative Extension Service Agent for Community and
Economic Development. Combs, a native of Floyd County, is a graduate of The
University of Kentucky. Campbell, a native Missourian, has degrees from The
University of Memphis and Texas A&M University and is a Kentucky Master
Gardener.
Pike
County's first class of certified Master Gardeners (L-R Front): Peggy
Davis, Kitty White, Nancy Fields, Rosemary Legge, Bonita Rose. (L-R Rear):
Tim Campbell, Kathy Bentley. April 8, 2004
Master
Gardener Program graduate Aggie Fink with husband James in the demonstration
garden beside the Extension Office in Pikeville. June 10, 2004
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