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Parker County Master Gardeners report 12,000 volunteer hours, promote April plant sale
Summary
Charlie Martin, county extension agent, told commissioners the Master Gardener program has 95 members and 25 interns, donated roughly 12,000 hours in 2025 (valued at about $400,000 at the stated hourly rate), and will hold a plant sale April 11 at Heritage Park.
Charlie Martin, county extension agent, briefed the court on the Parker County Master Gardener program's 2025 activities and volunteer service.
"We currently have 95 members, and then we have 25 interns that are currently in their education and volunteer year," Martin said, and he reported the group donated about 12,000 hours of volunteer service last year. Using the group's valuation figure for volunteer time, Martin said that equates to more than $400,000 in donated labor and community benefit.
Martin outlined outreach activities including nine demonstration gardens, school programs for Junior Master Gardeners that reached about 1,380 children, and a grant program that returned roughly $7,600 to nonprofits, schools and churches. He invited commissioners and the public to the Master Gardeners' plant sale on April 11 at Heritage Park.
Commissioners thanked the volunteers, noting the educational value of demonstration beds and youth programming; no formal court action was required.
