Fond du Lac County

Eighteen individuals recently completed the UW-Extension Level 1 Master Gardener Training Program in Fond du Lac County. The program is an intense 12 week (36 hour) training that gives individuals background knowledge in successfully growing and maintaining adapted vegetables, flowers, landscape plants, trees, turf, and native species. Further, each trainee was taught how to diagnose [...]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2012–The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released the new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM), updating a useful tool for gardeners and researchers for the first time since 1990 with greater accuracy and detail. The new map—jointly developed by USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Oregon State University’s (OSU) [...]

In 2011, the Fond du Lac County Master Gardener volunteers (MGV) logged 3,544 hours of community service and 468 hours of teaching to youth and adults. Here are a few highlights from their 2011 annual report: This spring the Fond du Lac Public Library requested help in designing and planting the current beds near the [...]

Information from the July 19th Compost Presentation at the Fond du Lac Public Library