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I with is certainly a benefit, Julie says the connection to others has been impactful in her life.

“Some of the people you work with have been Master Gardeners since the 90s and they know a lot,” she says.

When Julie was new to the Master Gardeners program, she said project chairs asked members to discuss their gardening knowledge with the rest of the group for five minutes. Here, members could learn from each other and get to know one another on a personal level.

“We were educating each other while we were doing this and so it was feeding my desire to learn more,” Julie recalls. “That group of individuals made me feel valued. Even though I was a newbie, I could teach them something that maybe they didn’t know about. We have the same mission, but we’re delivering it in different ways.”

Renae is proud of the Master Gardeners Class of 2023 who she nourished and brought up, and her respect and appreciation for them can be heard.

“There are some people who play golf, some people who play tennis, there’s some people who are very involved in their HOA, and that’s just what they do,” she says. “And then there are some people who are master gardeners and that becomes your thing. You wake up and while you’re having your first cup of coffee, you’re thinking about Master Gardener stuff. And that’s who I look for because there is no way that I could run the biggest Master Gardener program in Georgia if I didn’t have all these wonderful, dedicated people.”

Applications are being accepted for the 2024 Cobb Master Gardeners Program through June 16.

MASTER GARDENER CLASS OF 2023:

Kristin Allen

Debra Buis

Cathy Cataldo

Lisa Darden

Dave Esser

Terry Gantt

Meg Hartin

Stephanie Heuker

Nancy Hodgson

Abby Holland

Dan Larkin

Andrea Linde

Arlene McCoy

Julian McNees-Lambert

Abigail Meadows

Lydia Odenat

Carole Pavik

Tom Peck

Tammy Weller

Denny Wilson

Katie Wood

Michael Yarter

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