June 9, 2025 • 9 mins
It's the 50th Anniversary Master Gardener Event with the Illinois Extension!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tracy Joel Mulligan able to stop by here today from
the University of Illinois Extension. Now, do you want me
to start singing Happy birthday to the master gardeners? We
should fifty. This is a big number.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is. We are so excited. Is the fifty year
of the Illinois Master Gardner program and we are hosting
one of the celebrations that is open to the general public.
So on Wednesday, June twenty fifth, here in the Quiet Cities,
we are hosting the Golden Garden Days and we are
celebrating the fifty years of the Master Gardner program in Illinois.
(00:34):
And like I said, it's open to the public. We're
just really looking to showcase our program to people who
are interested in becoming a master gardener, who are a
master gardener, who were a master gardener, or just curious
about what master gardeners do. So we're starting our day
at ten o'clock am at Riverside and Moulein and then
(00:57):
we will go through we have a tree walk down there,
we have a pollinator garden. We're going to do a
make and take in the greenhouse. We're going to look
at our demonstration garden. So we're going to start there
from ten to twelve and then we're going to have
lunch on your own. But I am having a food
truck down there so we can sit in the garden
(01:17):
and talk plants.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Which what do we talk about? And I love I
love the food truck because I love their names, because
what is it Angry Haven, I believe is the food
truck and I'm I just love the names. There's so
much personality just in the names. But it's nice to
have that. And yet there's some other places that they
might be able to go to that are within walking distance,
(01:40):
and you'll be able to help them out with that too.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Absolutely, So yeah, we are asking that people pre register
for this just so that I know how many people
are coming, what kind of supplies I need to have,
and my method of madness, which I always have a
method to my madness. We were going to start at Riverside,
which has been a master Gardener project. I've been here
seven going on eighteen years, and it was here just
(02:03):
as I started, So it's been going for a long time,
and every year we try to add another level of
impact to it. So this year we've added in a
website with a GIF mapping of all the trees down
at Riverside and so you can click on a QR
code and you can tour and be like, oh, this
(02:23):
isn't oak, this is this, and this is how it grows.
And so every year we try to add something to it.
You know, master gardeners, it's helping others learn to grow.
So that's one thing that we're really trying to showcase
in this day is that it's not just having somebody
come over and weed, or not just having somebody come
(02:43):
over and plant flowers. They're teaching you and that's really
what master gardeners are about, and that's what I think
a lot of the misconception is is that they are
just out gardening. No, they're not just out gardening. They're
educating others. And so we started with Riverside because it
is one that we have put so much into and
(03:04):
there's so many different levels to it that you'll really
see the impact that they can make in a community.
And then after lunch we're going to go over to
one of our newer projects at Flora Sente Community Garden
and it is a partnership with the neighborhood. There are
snap people than the horticulture team of Master Gardeners and
(03:24):
we want an Extension Diversity Award in twenty twenty four
with that one. But it is a newer project and
it is really a community based project, and so then
you'll get to see a completely different kind of project.
So the purpose of that garden is to grow food
to give to people in need. And so we will
actually be doing a food drive at the Flora Sente
(03:48):
Garden that day for participants. So if you if your
tomatoes have come into full blossom, then you have extras
and you want to donate them, we will take them
off your hands.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'd like it, and I wanted to bring up here Tracy.
And by the way, we're talking to Tracy Joe Mulligan
the University of Illinois Extension. The food drive idea was
something that you had talked about a few months ago
when we talked to you.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Absolutely no, it has really taken off. We've gotten great
support from other community partners that are helping us with it.
So we are still taking you know, names and emails.
So how it works is if you sign up for
the gift gardens, we then let you know, Okay, today
is Tuesday. These are our food pantries that are taking donations,
so it helps you know where you have to get
(04:31):
your stuff. Because if you are harvesting tomatoes and your
little local pantry isn't open for six days, well we
all know how that works out for those tomatoes. So
we're trying to give you more outlets of where to
get your food on that day so that it can
get to people quick. Because that organic stuff that you're growing,
it doesn't have the shelf life of the grocery store stuff.
(04:52):
We all know that and that's why it tastes so
much better. So we're trying to give people ways to
get that to people in need quicker. And Sun has
been It's been great. The community down there has really
embraced it and has taken hold of it. And it's
a little gem. It is not a big garden, and
it just really showcases what you can do with a small,
(05:12):
little lot that has not been utilized. And one thing
that it really does show is that it is this
neighborhood that is doing this. I can't tell you how
many calls I get from from different organizations that they
have an empty lot that they want master gardeners to
do it. This is that neighborhood it is. We are
(05:33):
just showing them and giving them information, but they are
doing it. And that's what our second stop in our
fifty year anniversary will be. Will be down at the
Flora Sente neighborhood and we will have a brief presentation
from our master gardener lead down there and it will
be showcasing the difference that this small garden is making
into a community. And then we're going to go across
(05:57):
town over to the Hallburg Estate and that will be
about two thirty in the afternoon, and we are taking
on the world over there. That is a huge, brand
new project for us. As we all know, it had
been with the Parks and Rec District for Rock Island
for years and now it's been turned back over to
(06:19):
They have a foundation for it and they are just
doing fantastic things over there. They're re doing the landscape
back to its original intent and the master gardeners are
taking on a huge project over there. And so you'll
get to see from Riverside a long term existing project
to Flora Sente, a new or smaller project. Who then
(06:41):
Habbord a new project that is just getting started. We're
redoing the rose Garden, We're doing the back Trellis. It's
just incredible. If you have not been there, Holy cow,
it's beautiful and it's huge, and we will end up
being there. We're going to do appetizers and a house
tour and garden tour and they have a little cocktail lounge.
So it's just going to be a great day. Hopefully
(07:03):
the weather is fantastic for us. June twenty fifth. It's
an all day thing, open to the public. We'd love
to have as many people there as possible. Do you
want people to pre register? You can call them mile
An office to register and that numbers three zero nine
seven five six nine nine seven eight.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And give that one more time so that they can
register that number real slow so they can write it down.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Three zero nine seven five six nine nine seven eight
and just ask to register for the fifty year celebration
Golden Day's Master Gardeners and our great secretaries will get
you signed up, and we will love to have as
many people as possible.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And it's June twenty fifth, and for people I would gather. Also,
if somebody gets inspired and they want to become a
master gardener, they could probably ask when they're there and
and maybe the possibility exists where they would become a
master gardener sometimes soon.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, absolutely so if you know, I don't want people
to think you have to be want to become a
master gardener to come this, but if you are curious
about what master gardeners do and you're kind of thinking, well,
maybe this is a great time for you to see
the different types of projects that we have. And this
is just a little tiny taste of what the Quad
Cities has to offer as far as Master gardener projects.
(08:24):
But yeah, it really is a good day to just
see what it is they do with the different kinds
of projects, the different kinds of people that are involved
with Master Gardeners, and we're really looking forward to showcasing
one of the stronger programs in Illinois. Our Quad City
Master Gardeners are a force to be reckoned with. They
do so many great projects in the area. So I'm
(08:45):
looking forward to showcasing. I call them my people. You've
been doing this a while, I owe you know. They're
my people. Showcasing what my people really do. They make
a huge impact in the Quad Cities and some of
the projects that they take on.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Get a chance to see the great job that your
people do, and you do too, Tracy Joe Mullikan that
we need them to register. So we have an idea.
It's June twenty fifth and that number one last time.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Sure call our Quad City office in Mylin. It is
three zero nine seven five six nine nine seven eight
and just ask to register for the Golden Garden Days
that fifty years of Master Gardeners and they'll get you
signed up. There is no fee on this. It's just
so that we know the kind of supplies because we're
(09:31):
going to do a make intake and I'm going to
have some snacks over at Habbard. Just so that we
know how to divide people up and how many supplies
to have. So please pre register so we have a
proper amount of stuff. That would be great
Tracy Joel Mulligan able to stop by here today from
the University of Illinois Extension. Now, do you want me
to start singing Happy birthday to the master gardeners? We
should fifty. This is a big number.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is. We are so excited. Is the fifty year
of the Illinois Master Gardner program and we are hosting
one of the celebrations that is open to the general public.
So on Wednesday, June twenty fifth, here in the Quiet Cities,
we are hosting the Golden Garden Days and we are
celebrating the fifty years of the Master Gardner program in Illinois.
(00:34):
And like I said, it's open to the public. We're
just really looking to showcase our program to people who
are interested in becoming a master gardener, who are a
master gardener, who were a master gardener, or just curious
about what master gardeners do. So we're starting our day
at ten o'clock am at Riverside and Moulein and then
(00:57):
we will go through we have a tree walk down there,
we have a pollinator garden. We're going to do a
make and take in the greenhouse. We're going to look
at our demonstration garden. So we're going to start there
from ten to twelve and then we're going to have
lunch on your own. But I am having a food
truck down there so we can sit in the garden
(01:17):
and talk plants.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Which what do we talk about? And I love I
love the food truck because I love their names, because
what is it Angry Haven, I believe is the food
truck and I'm I just love the names. There's so
much personality just in the names. But it's nice to
have that. And yet there's some other places that they
might be able to go to that are within walking distance,
(01:40):
and you'll be able to help them out with that too.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Absolutely, So yeah, we are asking that people pre register
for this just so that I know how many people
are coming, what kind of supplies I need to have,
and my method of madness, which I always have a
method to my madness. We were going to start at Riverside,
which has been a master Gardener project. I've been here
seven going on eighteen years, and it was here just
(02:03):
as I started, So it's been going for a long time,
and every year we try to add another level of
impact to it. So this year we've added in a
website with a GIF mapping of all the trees down
at Riverside and so you can click on a QR
code and you can tour and be like, oh, this
(02:23):
isn't oak, this is this, and this is how it grows.
And so every year we try to add something to it.
You know, master gardeners, it's helping others learn to grow.
So that's one thing that we're really trying to showcase
in this day is that it's not just having somebody
come over and weed, or not just having somebody come
(02:43):
over and plant flowers. They're teaching you and that's really
what master gardeners are about, and that's what I think
a lot of the misconception is is that they are
just out gardening. No, they're not just out gardening. They're
educating others. And so we started with Riverside because it
is one that we have put so much into and
(03:04):
there's so many different levels to it that you'll really
see the impact that they can make in a community.
And then after lunch we're going to go over to
one of our newer projects at Flora Sente Community Garden
and it is a partnership with the neighborhood. There are
snap people than the horticulture team of Master Gardeners and
(03:24):
we want an Extension Diversity Award in twenty twenty four
with that one. But it is a newer project and
it is really a community based project, and so then
you'll get to see a completely different kind of project.
So the purpose of that garden is to grow food
to give to people in need. And so we will
actually be doing a food drive at the Flora Sente
(03:48):
Garden that day for participants. So if you if your
tomatoes have come into full blossom, then you have extras
and you want to donate them, we will take them
off your hands.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'd like it, and I wanted to bring up here Tracy.
And by the way, we're talking to Tracy Joe Mulligan
the University of Illinois Extension. The food drive idea was
something that you had talked about a few months ago
when we talked to you.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Absolutely no, it has really taken off. We've gotten great
support from other community partners that are helping us with it.
So we are still taking you know, names and emails.
So how it works is if you sign up for
the gift gardens, we then let you know, Okay, today
is Tuesday. These are our food pantries that are taking donations,
so it helps you know where you have to get
(04:31):
your stuff. Because if you are harvesting tomatoes and your
little local pantry isn't open for six days, well we
all know how that works out for those tomatoes. So
we're trying to give you more outlets of where to
get your food on that day so that it can
get to people quick. Because that organic stuff that you're growing,
it doesn't have the shelf life of the grocery store stuff.
(04:52):
We all know that and that's why it tastes so
much better. So we're trying to give people ways to
get that to people in need quicker. And Sun has
been It's been great. The community down there has really
embraced it and has taken hold of it. And it's
a little gem. It is not a big garden, and
it just really showcases what you can do with a small,
(05:12):
little lot that has not been utilized. And one thing
that it really does show is that it is this
neighborhood that is doing this. I can't tell you how
many calls I get from from different organizations that they
have an empty lot that they want master gardeners to
do it. This is that neighborhood it is. We are
(05:33):
just showing them and giving them information, but they are
doing it. And that's what our second stop in our
fifty year anniversary will be. Will be down at the
Flora Sente neighborhood and we will have a brief presentation
from our master gardener lead down there and it will
be showcasing the difference that this small garden is making
into a community. And then we're going to go across
(05:57):
town over to the Hallburg Estate and that will be
about two thirty in the afternoon, and we are taking
on the world over there. That is a huge, brand
new project for us. As we all know, it had
been with the Parks and Rec District for Rock Island
for years and now it's been turned back over to
(06:19):
They have a foundation for it and they are just
doing fantastic things over there. They're re doing the landscape
back to its original intent and the master gardeners are
taking on a huge project over there. And so you'll
get to see from Riverside a long term existing project
to Flora Sente, a new or smaller project. Who then
(06:41):
Habbord a new project that is just getting started. We're
redoing the rose Garden, We're doing the back Trellis. It's
just incredible. If you have not been there, Holy cow,
it's beautiful and it's huge, and we will end up
being there. We're going to do appetizers and a house
tour and garden tour and they have a little cocktail lounge.
So it's just going to be a great day. Hopefully
(07:03):
the weather is fantastic for us. June twenty fifth. It's
an all day thing, open to the public. We'd love
to have as many people there as possible. Do you
want people to pre register? You can call them mile
An office to register and that numbers three zero nine
seven five six nine nine seven eight.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And give that one more time so that they can
register that number real slow so they can write it down.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Three zero nine seven five six nine nine seven eight
and just ask to register for the fifty year celebration
Golden Day's Master Gardeners and our great secretaries will get
you signed up, and we will love to have as
many people as possible.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And it's June twenty fifth, and for people I would gather. Also,
if somebody gets inspired and they want to become a
master gardener, they could probably ask when they're there and
and maybe the possibility exists where they would become a
master gardener sometimes soon.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, absolutely so if you know, I don't want people
to think you have to be want to become a
master gardener to come this, but if you are curious
about what master gardeners do and you're kind of thinking, well,
maybe this is a great time for you to see
the different types of projects that we have. And this
is just a little tiny taste of what the Quad
Cities has to offer as far as Master gardener projects.
(08:24):
But yeah, it really is a good day to just
see what it is they do with the different kinds
of projects, the different kinds of people that are involved
with Master Gardeners, and we're really looking forward to showcasing
one of the stronger programs in Illinois. Our Quad City
Master Gardeners are a force to be reckoned with. They
do so many great projects in the area. So I'm
(08:45):
looking forward to showcasing. I call them my people. You've
been doing this a while, I owe you know. They're
my people. Showcasing what my people really do. They make
a huge impact in the Quad Cities and some of
the projects that they take on.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Get a chance to see the great job that your
people do, and you do too, Tracy Joe Mullikan that
we need them to register. So we have an idea.
It's June twenty fifth and that number one last time.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Sure call our Quad City office in Mylin. It is
three zero nine seven five six nine nine seven eight
and just ask to register for the Golden Garden Days
that fifty years of Master Gardeners and they'll get you
signed up. There is no fee on this. It's just
so that we know the kind of supplies because we're
(09:31):
going to do a make intake and I'm going to
have some snacks over at Habbard. Just so that we
know how to divide people up and how many supplies
to have. So please pre register so we have a
proper amount of stuff. That would be great
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