It's Been Awhile

What with all the travel and training and lack of internet in my apartment as yet, blogging is likely to be light for another month or so. Anyway, a short update.

I spent the entirety of last week in Olathe, KS mentoring with the two hort agents there. I also spent one day at the KS Turf conference. It was a good week. I appreciated the opportunity to see another program and learn how things work there. One of the agents there was relatively new, so she had good insights into getting started and being the new agent. It is also going to be nice, because our background complement well, so she can help me with turf stuff, and I'll help her with fruit and veg.

I spent the three days this week in my home office. I spent the better part of one day going around to different places in the county with the other agent so I could see things and meet people. I'm starting to develop ideas for programming in the spring garden series, the HUGE garden show, and classes for farmers. The advice that I think is sound, but that I'll have a hard time following is to pick one or two things and really focus on them and use them multiple times in different contexts for the entire year.

I definitely am planning on working up a presentation and class on salad greens, which is a pretty wide topic that can be narrowed down and focused for numerous audiences. Anyway, I'm going to be at 3 days of orientation at KSU next week, so that will have to wait for later.