Master Gardeners Presents: Successful Seed Starting

We are welcoming Glen McGee from Dallas County Master Gardener to give a presentation on Seed Starting, 

Glen McGee: 

Glen loves learning and sharing gardening techniques with fellow gardeners. He believes gardening is beneficial in so many ways: healthy food, good mental therapy, and the opportunity to share food and fellowship with friends.

Glen grew up in Southwestern Oklahoma helping his grandparents with their truck garden and his parents with their garden and farming operation. After a 30-year detour into computer programming primarily in the banking industry, Glen returned his attention to vegetable gardening. He has several raised vegetable beds at his home and in the Project Eden community garden. Within the Dallas County Master Gardener Association (DCMGA) Glen serves primarily at the Urban Farm in Garland assisting with orchard, vineyard and vegetable production as well as assisting with wine making classes and making/selling jelly with DCMGA and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension teams.

About 5 years ago Glen began propagating vegetables from seed for his own use. Later he expanded his scope to provide seedlings to members of several community gardens in Richardson as well as to several Richardson school gardens through Dawn Cleaves, the Title 1 Garden Coordinator. Glen’s talk focuses on growing vegetables from seed.

CERTIFICATIONS

TEXAS MASTER GARDENER, Dallas County, 2022

MEMBER OF AND/OR WORKS WITH FOLLOWING HORTICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS (include offices held):

Project Eden Community Garden─Standards and Maintenance DCMGA─2022 Class Captain

DCMGA Urban Farm leadership team

Richardson Title 1 Schools Volunteer─Seedling Production, 2020-2021

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science major, Drafting minor, 1983 Southwestern Oklahoma State