Records of the Virginia Cooperative Extension, Master Gardener Program
Scope and Content
This collection contains four boxes of slide sets, some with related scripts, for the Virginia Cooperative Extension's Master Gardener Program. Most materials are undated, but likely date from between the 1970s and early 2000s. Topics include flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees, landscaping, gardening, composting, and careers in horticulture.
Dates
- ca. 1970s-2000s
Creator
- Virginia Cooperative Extension (1995-) (Organization)
- Virginia Cooperative Extension Service (Organization)
Language of Materials
The materials in the collection are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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Administrative History
From the Master Gardener Program website:
The Master Gardener training was created by Extension to meet an enormous increase in requests from home gardeners for unbiased, research-based horticultural information. This increase was a result of the urban and transient nature of modern American life.
Master Gardeners provide a resource for all Extension program areas and for professionals from many other agencies. They provide communities with locally identified programs, including answers to individual questions via hotlines and plant clinics; radio, newspaper, and computer links; educational programs to meet targeted needs; education for the preservation of historic landscapes; urban tree planting programs; and guidance in making the natural environment accessible to all residents regardless of disabilities, incomes, or where they live.
More information about the Master Gardner Program is available online at the Virginia Cooperative Extension website.
Extent
6 Cubic Feet (5 boxes)
Abstract
This collection contains four boxes of slide sets, some with related scripts, for the Virginia Cooperative Extension's Master Gardener Program. Most materials are undated, but likely date from between the 1970s and early 2000s. Topics include flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees, landscaping, gardening, composting, and careers in horticulture.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into 14 series by broad topic area. Each series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
- Series I: Annuals and Perennials
- Series II: Careers in Horticulture
- Series III: Flowers
- Series IV: 4-H
- Series V: Fruits and Vegetables
- Seires VI: Gardening and Composting
- Series VII: Indoor Houseplants and Indoor Gardening
- Series VIII: Landscaping and Lawns
- Series IX: Pesticides and Fertilizer
- Series X: Plants/Trees/Shrubs
- Series XI: Pruning
- Series XII: Turfgrass Maintenance
- Series XIII: Weed Control
- Series XIV: Miscellaneous slides
Source of Acquisition
The Records of the Virginia Cooperative Extension, Master Gardener Program was transferred to Special Collections and University Archives in October 2012.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The guide to the Records of the Virginia Cooperative Extension, Master Gardener Program by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your- work/public-domain/cc0/).
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Records of the Virginia Cooperative Extension, Master Gardener Program was completed in May 2015.
- Title
- Records of the Virginia Cooperative Extension, Master Gardener Program, 1970s-2000s
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Katie Herring, Student Assistant, Sydney Vaile, Student Assistant, and Kira A. Dietz, Archivist
- Date
- 2020 (CC0 1.0)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu