Welcome SWIMGA Master Gardener!
Our membership directory is now also online for members only. Go HERE.
Instructions for accessing and updating our online membership directory
All SWIMGA members will receive an email from Loretta Bryant giving them their new username as well as a link for creating a password.
Please follow the directions below to create your password. If you have questions, contact Loretta Bryant at lorettabryant2021@gmail.com
Click this link to create your password: https://swimga.ctrn.
Update your profile:
- Open your profile
- Upload a photo and update your contact information. Click update to save your changes. To watch a video, click here
Download the Mobile App on your Smartphone and Tablet:
- Search Online Member Directory at your app store or click a link for Apple or Android
- On the welcome screen, select +Add New Directory and enter our mobile code swimga
- Touch our organization name to see the login screen
- Log in and select “remember me”
To learn more about the mobile app, click here.
We hope that you use, learn from, and enjoy our new directory!
Thank you,
Southwestern Indiana Master Gardener Assoc.
https://swimga.ctrn.co/
A Message from 2023 SWIMGA President Kathryn Kellems
In this season of gratitude, I can’t begin to express my sincere thanks for the hard work of our SWIMGA volunteers. It’s been a great honor to serve as President for the past two years. Collectively, SWIMGA volunteers have provided nearly thirty education sessions to the community this year. This fulfills one of our primary objectives to educate the community.
We have donated in excess of 6,000 pounds of fresh produce to community agencies in Vanderburgh and Warrick Counties. In addition we exceeded our goal of filling over three barrels of nonperishables for the Tri-State Food Bank. The Board appreciates all members who have
helped fight hunger.
Our 35th year saw SWIMGA volunteers pull together for a highly successful Plant Sale. For the first time ever we had a CPR Class for SWIMGA members. We have celebrated many members who have stepped up to assume leadership positions. We welcomed our new Extension Educator Amanda Bradshaw-Burks to our team.
I have been blessed to have a dream team of Board Members over the past two years. Everyone contributed their own insights for all business that came before the Board. All members demonstrated a high level of commitment to SWIMGA. I could not have asked for a better team.
As the first 2024 seed catalogs start to arrive, I have every confidence that SWIMGA will have a successful new year. We look forward to our first Basic MG class since the pandemic. It starts on January 8, 2024 and will be held at Ivy Tech.
The Plant Sale Team is already working hard on the 2024 Plant Sale. I have no doubt that the 2024 Garden Symposium will be a huge
success.
MEMORIES: I REMEMBER WHEN
submitted by SWIMGA members September, 2018
… the plant sale was held at The Homestead in Newburgh.
… the Plant Sale prep days were held in the Haller driveway.
… one of the picnics was held at New Harmony Park. We had a pig roast.
… the “transplant” days were held at Ann Goodman’s and Julie Mallory’s garages.
…the Master Gardener instructor was young and good looking!
… the Outlook Garden at the Display Garden was nothing but a heap of landscape fabric interwoven in a mound of mud and concrete.
… the membership was so small we held a meeting in lawn chairs at Kay Haller’s house.
… we had the plant sale at the old farmers market on First Avenue. We were only allowed to have a few concrete 6 foot tables and were not allowed to display or sell anything on the floor or under the tables.
… we made the first SWIMGA cookbook. The cover was wooden and had to be stained. Then at another session, we had to collate the pages that had been printed separately. Judy S. Kron offered her playhouse for that session.
… we hand-wrote every label/tag for the plants for the plant sale.
…. we volunteered as interns for work day at the Display Gardens, I would bring my portable picnic table. Several of us would bring our lunch and work well past noon until we finished whatever we were working on that day.
…we sowed the first cover crop at our Seed Sowing Ceremony for the MGDG in October 2005.
… we had our first Demonstration Day in 2007 at the MGDG.
… we chinked the cabin at the MGDG in 2007.
… we picked and cleaned bricks from the old state hospital building (2007).
… we planted our first vegetables in the Victory Veggie Garden 2008.
… we harvested our first fruits from the Berry Patch Harvest 2008.
… we planted our first pepper in the Victory Veggie Garden in 2007
… I joined 20 years ago, there were only about 25 people at the meetings. One gal gave gag gifts at the awards night and gave extra awards to people for funny things that happened during the year.
…I came to my first meeting in January as a Master Gardener intern how welcome I felt. Over the years it has been wonderful to share my love for gardening with our members.