{"id":1335,"date":"2025-04-15T22:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2025-04-15T22:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:07:53","slug":"who-are-your-master-gardener-county-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/2025\/04\/15\/who-are-your-master-gardener-county-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are your Master Gardener county award winners?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who will be the next recipients of each county\u2019s Master Gardener of the Year, Growing and Belonging, and Behind the Scenes awards? We\u2019re ready to take your reporting of awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All county-level award submissions should be made in cooperation with your local Master Gardener coordinator. Prior to selecting your counties\u2019 winners, please be sure to review the <a href=\"https:\/\/oregonstate.box.com\/s\/d1790zrxkm03jyipcqto3cpricx4veab\">criteria for county awards<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll celebrate the county award winners at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/omga.org\/joy-of-gardening-2025\/\">Joy of Gardening Conference<\/a> in July, and announce the \u00a0statewide award recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the county-level and statewide awards differ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The county-level award winners are selected by active Master Gardener volunteers in each county.<\/strong>\u00a0Once counties have selected their winners, they report them to the state using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/QFTozKbZbLEvhnzs6\">the\u00a0<strong>County<\/strong>\u00a0Master Gardener of the Year award submission form<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The statewide award winners are selected through a competitive process<\/strong>\u00a0at the state level. Each county may nominate one winner or winning team for each of the three awards. A statewide awards committee convened by OMGA and the Extension Master Gardener Program reviews nominations and selects the winners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that county-level winners are not automatically considered for the statewide awards. If your county wants to nominate a volunteer for a statewide award, you must do so using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/guHdfopCYzGUy9iZ8\">the&nbsp;<strong>statewide<\/strong>&nbsp;award nomination form<\/a>. Typically, counties submit different candidates for the statewide and county awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to submit your county\u2019s award winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All submissions must be made using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/QFTozKbZbLEvhnzs6\">the County Master Gardener of the Year award submission form<\/a>. Incomplete submissions may be disqualified, so take your time and prepare your submission in advance. Again, be sure to keep the <a href=\"https:\/\/oregonstate.box.com\/s\/d1790zrxkm03jyipcqto3cpricx4veab\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/oregonstate.box.com\/s\/d1790zrxkm03jyipcqto3cpricx4veab\">county awards criteria<\/a> in mind when you\u2019re selecting your winners and describing their contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deadline: May 15th, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who will be the next recipients of each county\u2019s Master Gardener of the Year, Growing and Belonging, and Behind the Scenes awards? We\u2019re ready to take your reporting of awards. All county-level award submissions should be made in cooperation with your local Master Gardener coordinator. Prior to selecting your counties\u2019 winners, please be sure to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/2025\/04\/15\/who-are-your-master-gardener-county-award-winners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who are your Master Gardener county award winners?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1238731],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-master-gardener-awards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}