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Quad-County Evaluation of Horticulture Diagnostic Services

Quad-County Evaluation of Horticulture Diagnostic Services. Tiana Wood Horticulture Resource Coordinator Kenosha and Racine Counties UW-Extension. Quad-County Horticulture Diagnostic Team . Barb Larson Horticulture Educator Kenosha County Patti Nagai

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Quad-County Evaluation of Horticulture Diagnostic Services

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  1. Quad-County Evaluation of Horticulture Diagnostic Services Tiana Wood Horticulture Resource Coordinator Kenosha and Racine Counties UW-Extension

  2. Quad-County Horticulture Diagnostic Team Barb Larson Horticulture Educator Kenosha County Patti Nagai Horticulture Educator Racine County Sharon Morrisey Consumer Horticulture Agent Milwaukee County Kristin Kleeberger Commercial Horticulture Educator Waukesha County Peg Fleury Hort. Diagnostics Special Project Coordinator Milwaukee County

  3. Horticulture Diagnostics • Diagnosing Plant Problems • Diseases • Insects • Cultural conditions and concerns • Using • Samples • Pictures • Descriptions

  4. Where? • County Office Sites • Phone Lines • Email • Outreach Sites • Farmers’ markets • Garden centers • County fairs • Local festivals • Botanical Gardens

  5. How? Volunteers! • Trained Master Gardener Volunteers • Volunteer at diagnostic sites for all counties • Extend Hort. Educator Services • Filling the need of the community • Continuing their training and education

  6. A Lack of Objective Data Locally and Nationally • Providing education to our community residents to make better environmental choices • Pesticide usage • Right plant-Right place • Sustainability • Property Value • Improving quality of life for our citizens • Providing support to our commercial partners

  7. Determining Impact of Horticulture Diagnostic Services • 2005 Quad-County Horticulture Diagnostic Evaluation • UW-Milwaukee Center for Urban Initiative and Research conducted survey and analysis • 2-part phone survey • Satisfaction • Pesticides • Created a database of client information • Consumer clients only • Collected data April – September

  8. The Survey • Universal log sheet • Log sheet used at all contact sites • Collected complete call information • Sent log sheets each month to UW-Milwaukee to enter into a database • 22 satisfaction questions, 7 pesticide questions, demographic information • 836 people were reached and responded to our survey

  9. The Results • They Like Us! They Really Like Us!

  10. The Results

  11. The Results

  12. Results of the Pesticide Survey • Attempted to pull out group of clients who called about chemical use • Sample size not large enough to draw conclusive results • No significant data collected • We do not recommend chemical use to most clients because in most cases it is not necessary

  13. Next Steps • Sharing evaluation results with stakeholders • County Board Members • Community members • Volunteers • Commercial Industry • Developing marketing pieces for each county and the Quad • Continue to use database to track our contacts

  14. Horticulture Diagnostics & Outreach R A C I N E W A U K E S H A M I L W A U K E E K E N O S H A Questions? Diagnostics Waukesha County UW-Extension 1320 N. Pewaukee Road Rm. G22 Waukesha WI 53188 (262)548-7770 http://waukesha.uwex.edu Mon.-Fri. 9am-4:30pm Racine County UW-Extension 14200 Washington Avenue Sturtevant, WI 53177-1253 (262)886-8460 http://racine.uwex.edu Mon-Fri 8-4:30pm Kenosha County UW-Extension 19600—75th St., P.O. Box 550 Bristol, WI 53104 (262) 857-1945 http://kenosha.uwex.edu Mon-Fri 8-5pm Milwaukee County UW-Extension 932 South 60th StreetWest Allis, WI 53214-3346Telephone: (414) 290-2400 http://milwaukee.uwex.edu Mon-Fri 8-4:30pm Japanese Beetle on wild grape. • Bugs on your roses? • Weeds in your lawn? • Spots on your maple? • What is diagnostics anyway? • That’s a great question! Just like you get a diagnosis when you go to the doctor, when you bring us a sick plant you also get a diagnosis. We’ll ask you questions about the age of the plant, the environment where the plant lives and how you care for the plant. Often with that information we can diagnose your plant problem and give you information about what you can do. Sometimes plant problems cannot be identified in our offices and then we turn to the University of Wisconsin diagnostic clinics—our specialists. In cooperation with the Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic, Insect Diagnostic Lab, Turf Diagnostic Lab and the Soil Testing Lab the we can answer almost any question you might have. Horticulture Diagnostics & Outreach Horticulture Diagnostics & Outreach Horticulture Diagnostics & Outreach Horticulture Diagnostics & Outreach University of Wisconsin, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Wisconsin counties cooperating. UW-Extension provides equal opportunities in employment and programming including Title IX and ADA

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