Today I drove over to the Kent County Extensions Office to pick up the corrected final exam for the MSU Master Gardener Volunteer Program. The exam was open-book which I completed over the holidays. It emphasized the need for volunteers to be able to find information they need from reference materials. Even so, the exam was tricky because the questions offered more than one correct answer. We needed to select the “best” correct answer. I successfully did so often enough that I passed the exam. Hoorah!

The classroom hours and course work we completed fulfills the education hours for the 2013 certification. I’ve sunk 10 hours into the Grand Ideas Garden, a garden at the Extensions Office enjoyed by the public and utilized for continued learning for gardeners. Now I have 30 volunteer hours to give to various gardening projects around our little city. I’m looking forward to it.