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Habitat for Humanity
Lynn Baker started this effort in 2003 with one home as
her independent project. Based on her recommendations, the Association
made a proposal in the Fall of 2004 to Habitat for Humanity to do a landscape
plan, donate $300 in materials, supervise the implementation of the first phase
of the landscape plan for each new house and provide training for the new home
owner in maintenance of the landscape. Alan Baker was the project leader
in 2004-2005 and completed only one home -- 79
Ponderosa Drive in Crossville. Gary Laura , Mike Eppolito and
Dorothy Eppolito completed a home in late 2005. Gary Laura is the leader
for 2006-2007 and is waiting for another home be ready. Homes have
recently been completed, but Habitat management has not asked for our
landscaping help on these units.
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Crossville Welcome Signs
The Master Gardeners, in conjunction with
Downtown Crossville, Inc. have completed the landscaping projects that
surround our WELCOME TO CROSSVILLE signs, in two locations. One is from
the west approach to the city. It's located on west 70 at the airport and our
group has improved the soil, planted, mulched and bordered this bed in
attractive stone. Click here
for a picture of the work in progress.
The other approach to the city that is now
finished, is on hwy 127, traveling north in to town. For many generations
this area was called Watertank Hill as the city water tower was located there.
When that landmark was removed in the fall of 2007, plans immediately
began to bring water back to the location in the form of a waterfall, welcome
sign and garden. Click here
for a picture. Woody Gregory from Gardens-to-Go was the designer for the
project with a dedicated group of Master Gardeners on hand to do the planting
and mulching. Carol Burdett was leader on both gardens. Click here for a
picture.
Two more Welcome gardens are on the drawing board
for the other two main approaches to our city. President Carolyn Jozwick is very
involved in this DCI project.
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Crossville Corps of Flags
The Corps of Flags landscape plan was designed by
the Master Gardeners of Cumberland County with Carolyn Jozwiak and Linda Baker
as leaders on this project. During a dedication ceremony on Veterans Day,
2004 the Corps of Flags was dedicated to the Veterans of Cumberland County.
The Corps of Flags hosts flags of the armed forces placed in order of their
creation - Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard. The flag of
the United States is at the center and at the highest point.
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Cumberland County Fair
The Fair offers the opportunity for organizations to enter
an educational booth. We have entered four times and won an award each
time. In 2004, our entry won first place. Several
Master Gardeners worked on this Western-themed exhibit. The backdrop was
created by 2004 MG, Carol Brady. Here is a picture
of the 2004 exhibit. We did not participate in 2005 or 2006, due to lack of
interest amongst the members.
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Spring Flower and Garden Show
Master Gardeners of Cumberland County hosted the first
Garden Show in 2003. Over the past 3 years the event has been a great
success hosting over 50 exhibitors and attracted over 3500 attendees. The
success of this show is attributed to the commitment of the Master Gardeners of
Cumberland County because of the hundreds of hours that are required to
make the show the success that it has become. The 2008 show is lead by
Anita Duffey and Barbara Rogers. .Go here for more information. Go here to see
pictures of these shows.
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Cumberland County Play House
This was a cooperative 2004 project with the volunteers at
the Playhouse to renovate their main pedestrian entrance which had become very
overgrown. The CCMGA effort was lead by Lynne Baker and she did the
landscape design. Linda Baker helped with a landscape plot plan and perspective drawing. The CCMGA contributed $800 toward the
materials. Stone was donated by Silvaro Stone and mulch was provided by
Rose Sawmill. This is a
multi-phase plan to include other areas and to develop a landscape maintenance
handbook for the Playhouse volunteers to use in the future. We
received a very nice thank you letter from the Playhouse director and
complimentary tickets which were used as door prizes for members. More
work was done in 2006, with the landscape committee of the playhouse doing the
work -- a whole new, fully-landscaped entrance to the playhouse is now in
place. We donated $700 in 2006.
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Horticultural Library
We have built a substantial reference library for
horticulture and landscaping, with over 90 books and CD's currently available to
the public for review at the Cumberland County UTAES office, or for check-out by
CCMGA members. Julaine McFate chairs this project and welcomes ideas for
improvement.
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Gardening Almanac
The "Gardening Almanac for the Plateau" was
created by member, Betty Bush, and finally published in 2005. It covers
activities for each month of the year, appropriate for our area. It also
lists those plants that should be in bloom each month, and the wildlife to be
expected. It is available online, here.
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Mayland Park
This effort was proposed and then lead by Frank Pittman. The city of
Mayland has a new raw area of land that they want to make in to a park. We
have volunteered to help them with the design and implementation of landscape
for the park. As of the Fall of 2006, no further action has been
requested.
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Obed River Park Arboretum
Herb White proposed and then headed up this ongoing project which also
involves the Crossville Tree Board and the County Commission. This site
has had brush clearing along the river trail and trees have been identified and
marked. It has received an official designation as an
Arboretum. There are areas in the park that will be landscaped, one
to be a prairie area supported by Tennessee Department of Wildlife
Resources. Herb White was the project leader in 2005 and managed several
work parties which planted trees, mulched and weeded. In 2006, many of the
trees that we planted were seen to be damaged by "weed whackers" by
the County maintenance staff. We provided several suggestions to keep this
from happening in the future. Carol Burdett is the
current CCMGA project leader.
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Chamber of Commerce
During the Summer of 2004 the Master Gardeners of
Cumberland County added plants to the landscape of the Chamber of Commerce.
The first phase of the project was a major cleanup of the area with plans to
redesign the area around the Chamber of Commerce. Linda Baker has been
contacted by Beth Alexander of the Chamber of Commerce to discuss the
continuance of the landscape design of the area. Linda and Carolyn Jozwiak
will also be providing a community service to the Chamber of Commerce by
designing a fall display of flowers, pumpkins and other festive items at the
entrance.
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here for pictures.
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"Kids on the Rise" child
center's garden
This was a new organization in early 2004 that inherited a
loaned residence in downtown Crossville for a new center of operations.
The existing garden was very overgrown (including poison ivy) and a sidewalk was
badly deteriorated. Led by Becky and Frank Pittman, the good sized team
spent several days in the cleanup phase in the Spring. Later in the
Spring, they removed the concrete sidewalk and added new plants. The
funding for the materials (about $350) came from the CCMGA.
In early 2006,
this organization lost their building, so a group of volunteers removed most of
the plants that we provided and gave them to the Habitat for Humanity
project. This project is complete.
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Arbor Day Tree
delivery
Spring of 2003 and 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, in cooperation with the
Crossville Tree Board, packaged and delivered tree seedlings to the community at
a central pick-up location (City Hall) to celebrate Arbor Day. Also,
provided planting advice and general landscape advice, as requested. The
project leader for 2008 is Bill Haynes.
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UT Agriculture
Extension Office Work
As part of the community education effort of the
CCMGA, members staff the Master Gardener desk at the UT Agricultural Service
Extension Office in Crossville, each morning in season. Jim Podsiadlo, Jim Mason, Roger Totten, Sue Neff,
Alan Baker and Carol Burdett are the current volunteers
for this key project. Kent McCoy is a substitute, volunteering as needed. Carol is the coordinator and welcomes new volunteers
for this interesting community service.
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Veteran's Memorial Garden Renovation
A major renovation of the Veterans Memorial Garden was
performed during 2005. The renovation required the removal of numerous
perennials by the Master Gardeners. The new landscape design features a
more formal display of shrubs. The tree in the center of the garden is
decorated with lights during the Holiday Season and is a beautiful display which
is located in the center of the City of Crossville. A community service marker
was placed in November 2004 to recognize their efforts. This will be a
continuing maintenance project for the Master Gardeners of Cumberland County
with Carolyn Jozwiak and Linda Baker as leaders on this project.
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Neighbors Together Green House
Lead by Rog Robenoldt in 2003, we helped the Pleasant Hill
Community fund a greenhouse project for the Elementary School. The CCMGA
contributed money, contingent on their organization obtaining other
funding. Funds and plans are in place, but the greenhouse is awaiting
further action by their committee. Several CCMGs live in this community and
participated in this project.
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Online Discussion
Forums
Using the technology of online discussion forums, Alan
Baker started the "Ask a Master Gardener" forum on CrossvilleTalks.com.
Questions are posted by the general community, and are answered by a CCMGA
Master Gardener. Alan has posted most of the answers, but refers to others
for expertise as needed. Crossville Talks has been replaced by South
Talks and a new forum, The
Crossville Crowd was added in 2006. In Early 2007, SouthTalks closed,
but we continue to support the forum on The Crossville Crowd.
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Humane Society Landscape
Renovation
Alan Baker proposed this project as part of the Humane
Society's effort to upgrade the appearance of the Shelter. Alan submitted
plans for improvement and in November 2003, pruned the Bradford Pears and
several other plants in the area. Their beautification committee did not
go further with the effort and no more work was done by the CCMGA members.
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2003 Crossville Christmas Parade
Lead by Wynell Busch, more than 20 CCMGA members participated in the design, construction and riding the float for the 2003 night
time Christmas Parade sponsored the the Crossville Street Scapes
organization. Over 70 entries participated and we won first place in our
division for our float. Click here for
pictures. We chose not to participate in the 2004 and 2005 parades.
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Historical Society Landscape Renovation
After the addition of a much needed
handicap ramp - the Master Gardeners were contacted to do a landscape
design for the front area. This building lies to the West of the Chamber
of Commerce and there is a vacant lot between these two buildings.
Overgrown boxwood shrubs posed a real issue as to the design of the entrance.
These shrubs were pruned only slightly with the addition of plants and mulch at
the base of the boxwoods. Plans to scale back the size of these shrubs to
allow sunlight for other nearby plants is being considered at a future date.
Carolyn Jozwiak, Linda Baker and Lynne Baker are the leaders on this project.
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Plateau
Discovery Gardens
At the suggestion and with the
encouragement of our Directing Agent, Gregg Upchurch, we now have a 3-acre plot
at the Highway 70 Agriculture Experiment Station in Crossville where we are
developing a community garden that will serve to demonstrate successful plant
materials and methods, serve as an outdoor classroom and provide for
non-commercial garden and landscape experiments. A master plan has been
developed to guide the long-term development of this site and resource.
The first plot was designed and planted by the MG Class of 2005 with the
vigilant coaching of Carol Burdett. Rae Hozer lead an effort to
create a wildflower meadow and Kent McCoy lead a group to set up a composting
demonstration area. The MG Class of 2006 project was a perennial garden.
Kathy Koester and Wanda Beatie are the co-leaders of this project, and serve on
a committee that includes our County Managing Ag Agent and the Manager of the
Experiment Station.
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Brown Elementary
School
In 2005, we were approached by some of the school staff to
help them get some landscaping done at this new school. Carol Burdett
grabbed a hold of this project and designed a landscape plan and drafted a
proposal for presentation to the County School Board., requesting $1,500, which
was granted. She then took school staff and volunteers to nurseries and
coordinated the delivery and plantings. The results were much appreciated
and included creating 9 planting pockets in the austere parking lot. No
CCMGA funds were needed in this project.
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Crossville Housing Authority
"523" Project:
This is a single family home project of 26 houses
for low-income families, similar to the Habitat for Humanity project. We agreed
to a trial program of the first 5 homes, where we would consult with the home
owner to design and implement a basic foundation landscape. We are providing
$300 per home and volunteer members to plan, select and implement the plantings
and to educate the homeowner in the care and maintenance of that installation.
Carol Burdett is the project leader and the first home was completed in the Fall
of 2006. Three homes have been completed and this is the end of this
project.
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