Our Master Gardeners make appearances in the media quite a bit. Usually, they pop up in my subscribed feeds for their numerous workshops, garden tours, advice columns, seminars and workshops, such as in this garden calendar from the Santa Cruz Sentinel. As a result, I don't always report on the Master Gardener stories that appear, so I missed an excellent piece in the San Jose Mercury News on Jan. 12.
Master Gardener Rebecca Jepson introduced a new monthly column in the paper, which has a weekday circulation of over a quarter million. Jepson promoted the Master Gardeners' demonstration gardens, their Web site, their telephone hotline and monthly events calendar. She also invited readers to submit their home gardening questions.
The story ended with an explanatory note stating that "The Santa Clara County Master Gardeners Program is a University of California Cooperative Extension volunteer organization dedicated to providing research-based gardening information to home gardeners."