Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener
PRESENTED FALL 2020
Congratulations! We know 2019 was an exciting year for many of you around the commonwealth. We are very proud of all you have achieved, and we offer our deepest congratulations and thanks to everyone who contributed to the Extension Master Gardener program through volunteer service this past year. We would like to take this opportunity to recognize those of you who reached important milestones in 2019. We are consistently amazed by the number of hours our volunteers contribute! Keep up the great work!
Kathleen Reed
Master Gardener Coordinator
Recipients Albemarle Betty Kobiashvili Janette Martin Ellen Mayoue Judy Reigel Susan Seidler Deborah Sinek Bill Sublette Christine Appert Sheila Balian Elise Burroughs Marie Callahan Stephen Church Coe Lilibet Deborah Harriman
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250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500 500 500 500 500 500
Ralph Morini Josie Taylor Barbara Templeton Abigail Turner Donna Vinal Mary Voorhees Debbie Willing Colleen Zanin Marty Lupinetti Susan Martin Fern Campbell Lorraine Momper Patsy Chadwick Bernice Thieblot
500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 1000 1000 2000 2000 3000 4000
Appomattox Donna Tolley
1000
Arlington/Alexandria Bob Besse Silvia Boada-Salom Margaret Brown Anne Coddington Brigitte Coulton Nancy Kelly Joan Layne Teresa Lustig Roberta Randolph Georgia Rangel Rachel Vecchio Maria Velikonja Catherine Barry Nancy Brooks Marjorie Burnett Amy Crumpton Tamara Dailey Claudia Gerwin
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500 500 500 500 500
Paula Kaufman Tyler Ormsby Anne Reed Gerry Smolka Maria Velikonja Susan Wilhelm Catherine Connor Nancy Davis Lorraine Fishback Elizabeth Good Tonda Phalen Carol Goldberg Tom Walczykowski Mary Free Paul Nuhn Elaine Mills Judy B. Funderburk
500 500 500 500 500 500 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 2000 2000 3000 3000 5000 8000
Bedford Doug Coffey 250 Andrea Wild-Gingeleski 250 Linda Goodreau 250 Jeff Gogel 250 Linda Evans 250 Brenda Gibb 250 Debbie Kay 250 Brenda Gay Simmons 250 Byron Maddox 250 Fran Bayne 250 Linda Caskie 250
Mike May Laurel Denne Mary Maxey Cindy Peebles Dot Novak Kathryn Kirkpatrick Marge Loomis Donna Templeton Linda Esser Kathy Nelson Jim Revell
250 250 500 500 500 1000 1000 1000 3000 4000 8000
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Central Shenandoah Valley Rockingham, Augusta Kim Atkins Bonnie Bailey Beth Chevalaz Kathy Gillette Diane Hirsh Greyson Sless
250 250 250 250 250 250
Kristine Tuckerman Janet Wendelken Joy Coakley Keala Timko
250 500 1000 1000
Central Rappahannock Sharon Balilea Rose Jennings Arlene Wilkinson Jenny Zane James Alderman
250 250 250 250 500
Alvin Calhoun Susan Collins Carol Werle Linda Kline
500 500 1000 5000
Chesapeake Sandra Achterman Amy Evans Marion Herndon Rebecca Jones Meredith Martin Penny McGrath Patricia O’Connor Victoria Thomas Shirley Whitehurst Yen Bao Becky Greenwald Janet Grubbs Marion Herndon Keith Lansley Lauren Ragsac
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250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500 500 500 500 500
Dale Shelley Victoria Thomas Connie Heine Ceil Rochevot Pat Starling Ed Bradley Pam Fisher Mary Hammel Gerald Hartis Kandy Keith Kathy King Vicki Roberts Amy Weber Freny Werbinski
500 500 1000 1000 1000 6000 3000 4000 2000 7000 5000 2000 3000 4000
Chesterfield Jenny Childress Marcia Harrigan Christine Kline Judith Lutz Robin Nooney Carolyn Pegram
250 250 250 250 250 250 Molly Fontaine Randolph 250 Norman Robinson 250 Susan Allen 500 Paulette Ansello 500 Peggy Beach 500
Kathy Chernicky Dell Dodson Annette Hensley Pamela Lepper Susan Oakey Roseann Walling Manny Walton Celeste Cooper Peg Tipple Lynne Foote Pat Stuckey
500 500 500 500 500 500 500 1000 1000 2000 7000
Culpeper Katy Cashman Mary Cowherd Kris Eggleston Kristin Meredith
250 250 250 250
Heather Schoenborn Sally Waldon Larry Baker Laurie Niestrath
250 250 500 500
Eastern Shore Northampton, Accomack Joyce Falkinberg Joanne Fitchett Diane Frey Susanne Grizzard Victor Klein
250 250 250 250 250
Diane D’Amico Paul Tiffany Susan Weir John McCormick Robert Shendock
500 500 500 1000 1000
Planting potatoes at the Fauquier Education Farm
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Fairfax Cindy Metcalf Paulette Kopstein Catherine Goss Ann Mason Prudy Brown Gary Jensen Teresa Nuzzo Mickey Quintrall Nancy Landis
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250
Suzanne Hamilton 500 Sharon Morris 500 Mary Connelly-Draper 500 Mary David 500 Larry Wright 500 Margo Dunn 1000 Patricia (Pat) Dickey 1000 Ray Novits 2000 George Graine 14000
Fauquier/Rappahannock Yuri Cole 250 Helen Turner 250 Gerald Turner 250 Catherine Waltham 250 Merrill Brown 500 Catherine Butler-Corish 500 Roxanne Haddon 500
Nancy Hall Carolyn Parks Mary McGee Helen Ryan Tom Baughn Jim Scibek
500 500 1000 1000 2000 6000
Fluvanna Lia Imhoff Jane Saxton James Hallissy Betty Loving
250 250 500 500
Margaret Alderman Sonita Brown Ray Rehm
1000 2000 2000
Franklin Eric Anspaugh Michael Karpesky Kathy Smith Lynn Ferrara
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250 250 250 500
Marge Rojewsky Bonnie Turner Mary Thurmond De English
500 500 1000 3000
Gloucester Wesley Jones Patti McGrath Ruby Gardner
250 250 500
Rose Sullivan Susan Camp Bill Blair
2000 3000 12000
Goochland Powhatan Linda Agee Dana Dee Carragher Alan Ford Renee Ford Gala Kizzar Cathy McCarthy Frank McGowan Gregory Vieira
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250
Vickie Botkin Chuck Crow Rebecca Crow M J Weatherford Jean Wisgirda Pat Lust
500 500 500 500 500 5000
Fluvanna County Old Farm Day 2019
Northern Shenandoah Valley Master Gardeners educate the public about the spotted lanternfly.
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Green Spring Kathie Baker Tim Bowers Ollie Burgess-Gorham Bob Drash Caryl Finnerty Charles Kackley Anamaria Long Cindy Marish Barbara Mugaas Debra Porter Ranjeet Singh Silvia Smyth John Snyder Tom Sparks Patti Swain Kathy Trichel Pauline Vander Veer Kathleen Wellington John Zemlan Carol Cannizzaro Jan Chappelle
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500
Sara Gillespie 500 Jeanette Hantke 500 Deborah Hassan 500 Ann Hummel 500 Dianne Kelbaugh 500 Ann Parham 500 Patrick Shea 500 Elizabeth Train 500 Cheryl (Cheri) Udy 500 Helen Walker 500 Mindy Waltham-Sajdak 500 Wyatt Williams 500 Sherley Channing 1000 Helen Gebhardt 1000 Sunny Greene 1000 Linda Nordstrom 1000 Dianne Runnels 1000 Robert Schulman 1000 Mary Teague 1000 Paulette Royt 3000
Halifax MaLinda Crawley Lee Baldwin Ellen Duque Gretchen Williams Kathy Parker Irene Dunn
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250 250 250 250 500 500
Janice Aulisio Isa Minner Maggie Westervelt Edna Guthrie Agnes Gregory William McCaleb
1000 1000 1000 2000 3000 5000
Hampton Diane Huston Kathy Monroe
250 250 Kanisha Haskins-Combs 500 Dr. Martha Tennille 500 Judith Michalski 1000 Maria Riegger 1000
Dr. Martha Tennille Leslie Orgain Loye Spencer Carol King
1000 3000 3000 13000
Hanover Jennifer Alexander Sharon Logan Cynthia Micklem Angelette Pryor Catherine Thomas Debbie Voss Virginia Nicholas
250 250 250 250 250 250 1000
Nicky Maddams Pat Reyes Linda Hazelwood
2000 2000 3000
Henrico Beth Downs Susan Douglas Doug Croson Will Adams Christine Corbin Lissy Bryan Jane Earle Duncan
250 250 250 250 250 250 250
Linda Rhodes Jeanne Sanders Nadine Oswald Janice Kuhns Vickie Bell Kitty Johnson Grace Harrison
250 500 500 500 1000 1000 3000
Wonderful Wednesdays is a family-friendly, “come and go” and “make and take” activity to engage patrons of Hampton’s city farm, Bluebird Gap Farm. Families learn about various horticultural or nature-related topics, such as pollinators, and build a craft to take home.
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Hill City Lynchburg, Amherst, Campbell Deborah J. Barnard Jim A. Fishel Clare Henry Eric D. Henry Ann S. Johnson Patty W. Pollard Terri Pritchett Elizabeth M. Wade Eugene G. Wolanski Martin I. Ernst
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500
Anastasia M. Kreft Galina G. Tarasevitsch Patricia Wagemaker Victoria Duff Dale W. Kidd Stuart W. Brust Patricia A. Nelson Margaret D. Mundy Richard Givens Iva W. Scott
500 500 500 1000 1000 2000 2000 3000 4000 5000
James City County/Williamsburg/New Kent Judith Alberts Paulette Atkinson Harry Fahl Jayce Griffin Wendy Hamrick Bob Howell David Kleppinger Silver-Perry Kimberly Sandy Liebler Pamela Mageland Sharon Marcial Frederick Matthies Susan Miller Carla Moses Kathy Skube Katherine Sokolowsky Carole Black Deborah Bussert Jennifer Campbell William Dichtel Ann Hobson
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250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500 500 500 500
Judith McCormack Becky Palmore Patricia Ridgway Janice Rockoff Sherry Walker Cheryl Roettger Hazel Braxton Ginny Cranford Cathy Hill Bruce Klein Louanne Martin Anne Odle Cheryl Roettger Patricia Abraham Yvonne M.Forbes Mary Ann Kimminau Janet Smith Pat Rathke Patricia Crowe Gary Streb
500 500 500 500 500 500 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 2000 2000 2000 2000 3000 4000 4000
Loudoun Katie Conaway Nancy Feeney Pam Feikema Cynthia Flynn Michael Kennedy Lisa Kuzma Gail Lataille David Long Kenneth Uffelman Becky Anzelone Cynthia Flynn Merrill Lishan Teresa Minchew
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500 500 500
Mark Mobley Ellen Paquette Donna Corbett Barry Hall Sandra Lockhart Sally London Howard Moody Pauline Shorter Vicki Waltzer Deborah Wilson Dianne Bayless Sue Russell Normalee Martin
500 500 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 2000 2000 8000
Louisa Renee Goodwin Michael Gelber Lilliane Conner
250 250 250
Mike Beers Richard Hinde
500 4000
Nelson Diana Beer Don Harvey Mona Peglow JoAnne Ramsay
250 250 250 500
Pat Welch Carolyn Hemetsie Eileen Maybee
500 1000 1000
New River Valley Montgomery, Floyd, Giles, Pulaski Ben Schwarz Lisa Lloyd Jennie Reilly
250 500 500
Connie Lawson Javad Torabinejad
2000 2000
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Newport News Sue Campbell Harold Hairston Charlie Tiedeken Joyce Bennett
250 250 250 500
Don Sasso Peggy Fox Janet Rash Ray Robinson
500 1000 3000 3000
Norfolk Drew Avery Jonathan Bennett Karen Brent Kathryn Bush Jeanie Carlson Cindy Creede Barbara Dozier Sue Gates Marilyn Gowen Peter Hatchard Connie Kellam Will Redfern Kim Stewart Michael Cole Gayle Donovan Ginger Farrell
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500 500
Robin Franklin Martha Holmes Jill Lewis Chris Reynolds Mary Shaffer Anna Thurmond Eileen Ballance Sophia Fowler Cathy Peyton Joey Rothgery Bill Gerhardt Betrice Hovey Donna Van Keuren Paul Ziegler Barbara Wilson Tom West
500 500 500 500 500 500 1000 1000 1000 2000 3000 3000 3000 3000 5000 6000
Northern Neck Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland Leslie Damon 250 Jim Meyers 500 Laurie Jewett 250 Michelle Kramer 1000 Carol Martin 250 Mary Turville 1000 Betty Mill 250 Tami McCauley 2000 Ian Cheyne 3000 Marge Gibson 500 Barbara Kauneckas 3000 Helen Johnson 500
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Northern Shenandoah Valley Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah, Warren Nita Bearer Kathi Bostelman Jeff Burke Cathy Dickey Alice Findler Susan Finlay Kristin Gaulard Susan Groom Patricia Legeer Mary Romanowski Patrice Vossler Elizabeth Bevan Tricia Boyd Denise Howe James Jones Misa Mulroney
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500 500 500 500
June Newcomb Charles Newton Catherine Reed Sue Rogers Joey Waters Kris Behrends Janet Keithley Nancy Mancuso Sue Rogers Carolyn Rutherford Mary Turner Richard Howell Lesley Mack Cy Haley Stacey Smith Lynn Hoffmann
500 500 500 500 500 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 3000 3000 4000 4000 5000
Nottoway/South Central Master Gardeners Joseph Mayton
500
Patrick Norma Bozenmayer Janice Woods
250 250
Glenda Cobbler
1000
Portsmouth JC Gardner Sharlene Pollard Art Robinson Regina Taylor-Hines Ellen Bible
250 250 250 250 500
Kim Lewandowski Nancy Perkins Jim Robinson Donna Wooley Fred Hersey
500 500 500 1000 2000
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Prince George Regenia Grubbs Debra Prior Donna Wicks
250 250 250
Janet Fisher-Callis Paula McCutchan Earlene Hogg
500 500 8000
Prince William Arbogast Kereshmeh Cohen Kate Eklund Lynne Forsay Pam Jones Jimmie Newman Maritza Nourse-Miller Alison Pigatti Christina Schneider Carrol Arvin Rebecca Beaverson Janice Cashwell Joanne
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500 500
Gallion Shannon Hastings Christina McCleerey Timothy Zell Kim Zimmerman Jeff Doble Janice Bennett Jean Meink Jean Lamczyk Jeanne Cumming Jim Paulson Leslie
500 500 500 500 500 1000 2000 2000 3000 4000 13000
Roanoke Tish Barnhill Faith Janney Tracy Pouzar Debbie Ray Rebecca Ross Kyoko Yamamura Kristen Mattioni Teresa Preer Bill Reed
250 250 250 250 250 250 500 500 500
Lisa de Vries Susan Hinchee Claire Privitera Kathy Sink Sharon Stinnette Janie Wallace Tonya Harper Donna Haley
1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 4000 5000
Rockbridge Sue Braford David Bryer Lucia Owens Petra Visscher Karen Carlton 14
250 250 250 250 500
Tamara Teaff Faith Vosburgh Margaret Bateson Susan Piepho Bob Kovach
500 1000 2000 2000 3000
Suffolk Chris Buck Mary King Mary Milley Sue Nagle Karen Scott
250 250 250 250 250
Debra Smith Ray White Susan Evans Wanda Gerard
250 250 500 7000
Tazewell Phyllis Brady
250
Wendy Brady
250
Virginia Beach Maureen Altizer Lura Ball Dianne Baxley Samantha Bentley Marilyn Draughon
250 250 250 250 250 Christina Gibson-Comer ` 250 Cynthia Green 250 Michael Horstman 250 Dr. Tina (Eastine) Moreau 250 Debbie Payne 250 Debra Rutherford 250 Mary Stephens 250 Michele Wadsworth 250 Dorothy Weber 250 Janine Bailey 500 Lura Ball 500 Brenda Barrett 500 Larri Pat Donaldson 500 Robert Gormley 500 Carolyn Halstead 500 Stephen Hebert 500 Babette Klaus 500 Elizabeth Kouri 500 Barbara Nesbitt 500 Ronald Nesbitt 500 Martha Nesselrode 500 Ella Osmore 500
Jane Bloodworth Rowe 500 Marlene Adams 1000 Cathy Bieker 1000 Mary Ann Blair 1000 Nancy Brown 1000 George Denice 1000 Patty DiVito 1000 Lennie Kling 1000 Ellen Krause 1000 Jeanette Lynch 1000 Margie Morales 1000 Bob Rieve 1000 Shewbridge 2000 John Wessel 2000 Sarah S Williams 2000 Mary Hubbard 3000 Mike Paolantonio 3000 Madge Stampe 3000 Joyce Williams 3000 Elizabeth Maurer 4000 Stacie McGraw 4000 Jessie Basso 5000 Holly Chipchak 5000 Elizabeth Maurer 5000 Sherry Kern 6000 Mary Ann Kincaid 10000 Betty Villers 14000 15
Washington Linda Mullins
1000
Wythe/Bland
Patricia Aker
2000
York/Poquoson Sandra Armstrong Jeannie Atkins Alvin Brown Beth Check Bryan Hacke Brian Luoto Joan Luoto Mary Margaret Skora Brenda Tanner Brenda Taylor
250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250
Bethany Beck Patricia English Bryan Hacke Nettie Lamb Beverly Powell Olivette Stepney Kathleen Ward Gwen Harris Noel Talcott, Jr. Jody Turner
500 500 500 500 500 500 1000 3000 5000 5000
Thank you! More than 200 Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners reached milestones in 2019. They contributed to projects such as community gardens, therapeutic gardening, school gardens, plant clinics, help desks, youth education, and so much more! All images in this program were sent to us throughout the year by units around the state. Thank you to everyone who sent us photos! Virginia Cooperative Extension programs and employment are open to all, regardless of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. An equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia State University, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating. Edwin J. Jones, Director, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; M. Ray McKinnie, Administrator, 1890 Extension Program, Virginia State University, Petersburg. Cover photo by Masaaki Komori on Unsplash