Letter From the State Coordinator Hello from the State Coordinator’s Office, Though the plants are still dormant outside, our office is anything but! We are hard at work preparing for Master Gardener College 2020, Giving Day, the International Master Gardener Conference (IMGC) in 2021, and more! Master Gardener College 2020 is back in Blacksburg this year from June 25 -28. We have new and exciting tours and workshops planned and have secured some great keynotes and concurrent session speakers. The advanced training this year is Land Care Steward Training. Keep an eye out for registration opening in mid to late April. We look forward to seeing folks on campus in June! Another upcoming endeavor from our office is our engagement with Giving Day, a 24-hour giving campaign that runs from noon on March 18 to noon on March 19. We have two generous donors who have added matching challenges to our Giving Day campaign, one for $1,000 and the second for $2,000. All donations will go directly toward our unrestricted operating funds – those help fund leadership trainings, resource development, and more! Please consider supporting our Giving Day campaign or sharing information with others! It truly is an exciting time for our office as we work to plan IMGC 2021. We are not alone in this endeavor, we have a great team of EMG volunteers to help us pull off what will be a unique and transformative week in Norfolk in September 2021. Visit the conference website, internationalmastergardener.com, to see keynote speakers, a preliminary schedule, and additional details about our conference location. As part of IMGC preparations, we are currently calling for proposals for our 60-minute concurrent sessions and our 120-minute workshops at IMGC. If your unit has hosted a particularly amazing speaker, please forward them our Call for Proposals and help us round out our lineup of dynamic concurrent session speakers! The Call for Proposals can be found on the IMGC website listed above. Kathleen Reed State Master Gardener Coordinator
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