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Forms for Certified Master Gardeners and Master Gardener Interns

Certified Extension Master Gardeners must complete 20 hours of volunteer service and 10 hours of continuing education annually.

EMG Interns are to fulfill 48 hours of volunteer service in their first two years with the program. Master Gardener Interns are not required to complete continuing education during their internship period but are welcome to report continuing education events they choose to attend.

Volunteer Hours Reporting Form
Continuing Education Form

Forms for Master Gardener Diagnosticians and Apprentices

Master Gardeners, you may report both your diagnostician hours and your regular volunteer service hours on this form. Please use the continuing education form to report those hours separately.

Diagnostic Hours Reporting Form

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Donating to Local Food Banks

Master Gardeners and MG Interns can donate their fresh garden produce to local food pantries to help support the Hunger Free ND Garden Project.

Master Gardeners will earn 1 volunteer hour for every 5 pounds of produce they donate to a food pantry. In addition, you can count the amount of time that it takes to drive to and from the food pantry. Please weigh your produce at the participating food pantry and keep track of the weight on your reporting forms; there is no need to send signed or approved forms from the food bank. We trust your generousity!

For those of you tending a dedicated community garden for such a project, you have the choice of either counting all your hours caring for the garden plus transporting the produce to the food pantry OR you can use the 5 lbs per hour rule.

Donation Locations

Participation in NDSU Release Trials

Sometimes the opportunity to grow and monitor a recent or possible NDSU variety in your home garden can spring up. This work can be added into your Master Gardener volunteer or MG Intern Administrative Service hours.

Each trial that you monitor is equal to two hours of certified volunteer or intern admin service time (one hour of service per cultivar) with a maximum of 8 trials allowed annually (16 hours). You are welcome to participate in spring and fall trials but a total of 16 hours is the maximum to be counted toward EMG volunteer time.

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Submission of Forms

Form Due Date

The NDSU Extension Master Gardener Program reports volunteerism to the National Master Gardener Program annually. We tally volunteer hours worked, educational experiences created and attended, and food/produce donations.

Our NDSU EMG year ends on October 1 annually, allowing time for data collection by year end.

Sending in forms that meet the minimum requirements mentioned above, postmarked by October 15, guarantees recertification, qualifies you to be an award nominee, and helps our program make the best impact nationally.