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Master Gardener Programs - State Coordinators


Contact your state coordinator for the Master Gardener program nearest you.
 

ALABAMA
 

Email: jimcall@casagarden.com

 

ALASKA
Michele Hebert
PO Box 75-8155
University of Alaska
Fairbanks AK 99775-8155
FAX 907-474-2423
Email: ffmah@uaf.edu
 

ARIZONA
John Begeman
Arizona Master Gardener Coordinator
University of Arizona / Pima County Extension 4210 N. Campbell Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85719-1109
Email: jbegeman@ag.arizona.edu

ARKANSAS
Janet B. Carson
Extension Horticulture Specialist
2301 S. University
Little Rock, AR 72204
Phone: 501-671-2174
Fax: 501-671-2303
Email: jcarson@uaex.edu
 

CALIFORNIA
Laura Monczynski
Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Email:  lmonczynski@ucdavis.edu
Resources for California Garden Educators
For a complete list of California master gardeners: 
visit their website and click on your county:

COLORADO
David E. Whiting
Extension Consumer Horticulture Specialist
Department of Horticulture and LA
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1173
Phone: 970-491-7030
Fax: 970-491-7745
Email: dwhiting@coop.ext.colostate.edu
 

CONNECTICUT
Cyndi Wyskiewicz
Education Coordinator & Master Gardener Coordinator
The Home and Garden Center
Ratcliffe Hicks Building, room 4
1380 Storrs Rd, Unit 4115
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-4115
Phone: 860-486-6271
Email: cynthia.wyskiewicz@UConn.edu
 

DELAWARE
Susan S. Barton
Extension Specialist
University of Delaware
Dept. of Plant & Soil Science
Townsend Hall
Newark, DE 19717-1303
Phone: 302-81-1375
Fax: 302-831-0605
Email sbarton@udel.edu
 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Sandra R. Farber, Environmental and Natural Resources Extension Agent
University of the District of Columbia,
Cooperative Extension Service
4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Building 52, Room 322
Washington, DC 20008
Phone: (202) 274-7166, Fax: (202) 274-7130
Email: sfarber@udc.edu
 

FLORIDA
Tom Wichman
Department of Environmental Horticulture
University of Florida
1523 FiField Hall
PO Box 110670
Gainesville, FL 32611-0670
Phone: 352-392-1831 x 331
Email: twichman@ufl.edu
 

GEORGIA
Marco Fonseca
Extension Horticulturist and State Master Gardener Coordinator Horticulture Dept - UGA Griffin Campus
1109 Experiment St
Griffin, GA 30223
Phone 770-228-7243
Fax 770-412-4764
email: mfonseca@uga.edu
www.gamastergardener.org

HAWAII
Jan McEwen
Master Gardener Coordinator
Pearl City Extension Office
962 Second Street
Pearl City, HI 96782
Phone: 808-463-6060
Fax: 8008-453-6052
Email: jmcewen@hawaii.edu

IDAHO
Robert R. Tripepi,
Master Gardener State Contact
PO Box 442339
Plant Science Division, University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-2339
Phone: 208.885.6635 FAX: 208.885.7760
E-mail: btripepi@uidaho.edu

ILLINOIS
Monica David
Interim Illinois Master Gardener Coordinator
University of Illinois
1007 Plant Sciences Lab
1201 S. Dorner Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-265-5256
Fax: 217-244-3469
Email:  m-david1@uiuc.edu
 

INDIANA
Peggy Sellers
Master Gardener State Coordinator
Purdue University Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
625 Agriculture Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010
Phone: 765-494-4713
Fax: 765-494-0391
Email: sellersp@purdue.edu
 

IOWA
James Romer
1407 Elwood Drive
Reiman Gardens
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50010
Phone: 515-294-2336
Fax: 515-294-4817
Email: jromer@iastate.edu
 

KANSAS
Ward Upham
Extension Associate
2021 Throckmorton Hall
Department of HFRR
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS. 66506-5507
Phone: (785) 532-1438
Fax: (785) 532-6949
E-mail: wupham@oznet.ksu.edu
 

KENTUCKY

There currently is no state Master Gardener coordinator.
County agricultural agents have split up the work. For more information, contact
Rick Durham
Phone: 859-257-3249
Email:  rdurham@uky.edu

LOUISIANA
Robert J. Souvestre
Instructor, Dept. of Horticulture
State Master Gardener Coordinator
P.O. Box 25100
Baton Rouge, LA 70894-5100
Office: (225) 578-1030
Fax: (225) 578-0773
Email: bsouvestre@agcenter.lsu.edu
 

MAINE
Donna Coffin, Extension Educator

Email: dcoffin@umext.maine.edu

 

MARYLAND
Jon Traunfeld
Reg. Spec./ Master Gardener Coordinator
University of Maryland
12006 Homewood Rd.
Ellicott City, MD 21042
Phone: 410-531-5572
Fax: 410-531-5567
Email: jt46@umail.emd.edu
 

MASSACHUSETTS
Kathleen Carroll
Department of Plant & Soil Sciences
French Hall
University of Massachusetts
Box 32910
Amherst, MA 31003-2910
Phone: 413-545-0985
Fax: 413-545-3075
Email: kcarroll@umext.umass.edu
 

MICHIGAN
Mary C. McLellan
422 Plant & Soil Sciences Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-353-3774
Fax: 517-353-0890
Email: mg@msu.edu
 

MINNESOTA
Mary H. Meyer
Master Gardener State Coordinator
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
3675 Arboretum Drive
Chanhassen, MN 55317
Phone: 952-443-1447
Fax: 958-443-2521
Email: meyer023@umn.edu
 

MISSISSIPPI
Lelia S. Kelly, Ph.D.
AgroHorticulture Specialist/ State Master Gardener Coordinator
North MS Research and Extension Center
PO Box 1690
5421 Hwy. 145 South
Verona, MS 38879
Phone: 662-556-2201
Fax: 662-566-2257
Email: leliak@ext.msstate.edu
 

MISSOURI
Mary Kroening
Plant Sciences Extension Associate
I-87 Agriculture Building
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: 573-882-9633
Fax: 573-882-1469
email: kroeningm@missouri.edu
 

MONTANA
Cheryl Moore-Gough
Extension Horticulturist
313 Leon Johnson Hall
Montana State University-Bozeman
P.O. Box 173140
Bozeman, MT 59717
e-mail:  hort@montana.edu http://gardenguide.montana.edu

NEBRASKA
Ann Streich
Extension Coordinator
Home/Environmental Horticulture
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
377 Plant Science
Lincoln, NE 68583-0724
Phone: 402-472-1640
Fax: 402-472-8650
Email: astreich@unl.edu
 

NEVADA
Wendy Hanson
Phone:  775-784-4848
Email: hansonw@unce.unr.edu
 

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Marcy Stanton
Email:  Marcy.Stanton@unh.edu

NEW MEXICO
Curtis Smith
Extension Horticulture Specialist
New Mexico State University
9301 Indian School Rd. NE ste 112
Albuquerque, NM 87112
Phone: 505-275-2576 Fax: 505-292-9815
Email: cusmith@nmsu.edu

Local program listings: www.nmmastergardeners.org
 

NEW JERSEY
Barbara Bromley (Mercer County Horticulturist) Email: bbromley@mercercounty.org

 

NEW YORK
Lori Bushway

Email: ljb7@cornell.edu

 

NORTH CAROLINA
Erv Evans
North Carolina State University
Box 7609
Raleigh, NC 27695-7609
Phone: 919-515-5378
Fax: 919-515-7747
Email: erv.evans@csu.edu
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/comsumer/
 

NORTH DAKOTA
Ronald C. Smith, Ph.D.
NDSU Department of Plant Sciences
Box 5051, Loftsgard Hall
Fargo, ND 58105
Phone  701-231-8161
Cell: 218-790-5705
Email: Ronald.smith@ndsu.edu

 

OHIO
Marianne Riofrio
Department Of Horticulture & Crop Science
232 B, Howlett Hall 2001 Fyffe Ct.
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210-1096
Phone: 614-292-8326
Fax: 614-292-3505
Email: riofrio.1@osu.edu
 

OKLAHOMA
David Hillock
Oklahoma State University
Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
360 Agricultural Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-5404
Fax: 405-744-9709
Email: hillock@okstate.edu
 

OREGON
Gail Langellotto
Urban and Community Horticulture Specialist
Statewide Coordinator, Oregon Master Gardener Program
OSU-Dept. of Horticulture
4017 Ag. & Life Sciences Bldg.
Corvallis, OR 97331-7304
Ph: 541-737-5175
Fax: 541-737-3479
Email:langellg@hort.oregonstate.edu
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/

PENNSYLVANIA
Ginger Pryor
State Master Gardener Coordinator
2120 Cornwall Rd, Suite 1
Lebanon, PA 17042
Telephone: (814) 404-8237
Fax: (717) 675-2077
E-mail: gmp4@psu.edu

 

RHODE ISLAND
Rosanne Sherry
University of Rhode Island Cooperative Extension Education Center
3 East Alumni Avenue
Kingston, RI 02881-0804
Phone: 401-874-2929
Fax: 401-874-2259
Email: mastergardener@uri.edu
 

SOUTH CAROLINA
Tim Davis

Phone: (803-730-7956)
Email: tdvs@clemson.edu

 

SOUTH DAKOTA
Rhoda L. Burrows, PhD
Horticulture Extension Specialist
Box 2140A; 201 NPB
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007
605-688-4731 voice
605-688-4713 FAX
email: Rhoda.Burrows@sdstate.edu
 

TENNESSEE
Beth Babbit,Extension Area Specialist,
Urban Horticulture & Master Gardener Volunteer Coordinator
Department of Plant Sciences
U.of  Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
252 Ellington Plant Sciences Building
2431 Joe Johnson Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4561
Phone: (865)974-7324
Fax: (865)974-1947
email: ebabbit@utk.edu
http://mastergardener.tennessee.edu

TEXAS
Douglas F. Welsh, Ph.D.
225 Horticulture/Forestry Sciences Bldg.
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-2134
Phone 979-845-8565
Fax: 979-845-8906
Email: dougwelsh@tamu.edu
 

UTAH
Debbie Amudsen
28 E. State Street
PO Bx 618
Farmington, UT 84025
Phone: 801-451-3405
Email: debbiea@ext.usu.edu
 

VERMONT
Nancy M. Hulett
Master Gardener State Coordinator
University of Vermont Extension
105 Carrigan Drive, Hills 4
Burlington, VT 05405-0082
Voice: 802-656-1777
Fax: 802-656-4656
Email: nancy.hulett@uvm.edu
 

VIRGINIA
Dave Close
State MG Coordinator, Virginia Cooperative Extension Virginia Tech
407 Saunders Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0327
(540) 231-2714
dclose@vt.edu
 

WASHINGTON
Rod Tinnemore
State Coordinator, WSU Master Gardener Program
Washington State University
7612 Pioneer Way East
Puyallup, WA 98371-4998
Phone: 253-445-4314
Email: rodt@wsu.edu

WEST VIRGINIA
John W. Jett
2088 Agricultural Sciences Bldg
PO Box 6108
West Virginia State Univesity
Morgantown, WV 26506-6108
Phone: 604-293-6131 x 4224
Fax: 304 293-6954
Email: John.Jett@mail.WVU.edu
 

WISCONSIN
Dr. Susan E. Rice Mahr
Department of Horticulture
University of Wisconsin – Madison
1575 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-265-4504
Fax: 608-262-4743
Email: semahr@facstaff.wisc.edu
 

WYOMING
Karen L. Panter, Ph.D.
Extension Horticulture Specialist
Department of Plant Sciences
PO Box 3354
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82073-3354
Phone: 307-766-5117
Fax: 307-766-5549
Email: kpnater@uwyo.edu
 

 

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