DeSoto County Extension Newsletter - June

Summer is almost officially here! School is out too! What do you have planned this summer? If you need some ideas we’ve included some workshops, events and contests in our newsletter. If you plan on getting outside a lot, please check out the heat safety tips we included above! 

At the end of April, the DeSoto County Master Gardeners along with Tate County, hosted the Mississippi Master Gardener Conference at the DeSoto County Agri-Education Center. There were 250+ MG from across the state come to visit us! Thank you if you served on a committee, taught a session, volunteered to man stations or sessions, or played a role in helping make this event a huge success. Patricia Cross (She She) won the award Friends of Master Gardener Award at the state conference too. We are so proud of her and her collaboration with MG and 4-H here in DeSoto County. In addition to her normal duties as our Office Associate, she is the glue that binds us together at the office, helping hold us together. 

Here in Extension we’ve been super busy! With what you ask?!?! We have been preparing 4-Hers for State for Congress, holding our first home canning workshop at the Agri-center, hosting our 2nd Annual Master Urban Homesteader Workshop Series, multiple 4-H Shooting Sports discipline(s) practices multiple days a week, and the list could go on and on. You get the picture? BUSY! If you did not “make it” into one of these sessions, please be patient with us...they will be offered again. We have other duties, programs and obligations that we also have to coordinate and keep going, plus our new facility here is in high demand and is being booked by others for events that are not affiliated with Extension. So getting our schedule and the facilities events calendar to align, in addition to our other work obligations and work assignments, is a struggle at times! So please understand that we are trying and doing the best that we can do to serve you in addition to everything else. 

Are you new with us in Extension and wondering how do we promote things? We post things on social media (Facebook and Instagram) and inside this newsletter to promote our events and happenings. We have to set limits and once we have reached capacity we ask that you be patient until we can offer it again. We strive hard to get the newsletter to the print shop around the 15th to 20th of the prior month. The print shop prints and mails it from MSU campus in Starkville, then USPS delivers it to you. Sometimes there is hiccups in the way that slow down the process and they are not always in our control. Sometimes classes fill up quick and other times it might be slow. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we continue to serve you!