MASTER GARDENER VOLUNTEER
ACTIVITY LOG with Harford County Codes Listed
Months
Year
First Name
Total Hours by Activity Code
Please Total Your
Hours Here
County
1,
2,
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
Last Name
13. Continuing or advanced training hours
VOLUNTEER HOURS LOG (Please do not combine different years on the same log)
Number of Contacts by Race and Gender
Date
Activity
Code #
Hours
Worked
Total Hours Worked
EDUCATION LOG (Code 13)
Date
Hours Learning
Brief Description of Volunteer Activity
# of
Youths
reached
Unknown
White
AfAmer/
Black
Asian/
Pacific Is.
Hispanic
Native
American
Undetermined
(for MG’s
personal
use only)
Miles
Traveled
Total Contacts
It is the policy of University of Maryland Extension that no person shall be subjected to discrimination on the grounds of race, color, gender, disability, religion, age, or national origin.
Brief Description of Continuing Education Activity
Date
Hours Learning
Brief Description of Continuing Education Activity
DEMOGRAPHIC DATA COLLECTION
Master Gardeners sign a Volunteer Appointment Agreement and abide by MCE policies by recording volunteer hours and contact demographic
data. This log is the primary source of information we use to collect and enter volunteer and program participation data into our database. The
information you collect allows us to evaluate educational program outreach, report to our sponsors, and ensure that our programs are reaching all
the citizens of Maryland.
When recording contact information, please transfer/summarize on this for the notes you make concerning the number of client contacts made
through plant clinics, phone calls, talks, workshops, information booths, etc. Your work is important!
Participant contact data is to be collected in a discrete manner. In activities with large attendance such as talks and seminars, make the best
estimate you can. Identify participants as “unknown” (U) when you are in doubt as to race or ethnicity. When more than one Master Gardener in
involved in an event, please take care that all contacts are accounted for, and that the contact numbers are not duplicated on the logs of
individual Master Gardeners.
ACTIVITY CODES AND DESCRIPTIONS With Harford County Code Descriptions underlined
1. IPM – Plant and pest diagnosis and program solving (including weeds)
2. Plant Clinics – Library clinics; Farmer’s Markets: Bel Air and Havre de Grace; displays for markets
3. Soils/Composting (Urban Nutrient Management) – Backyard and community composting; soil testing, improvement and
conservation, proper fertilizer use, compost classes, compost news articles
4. Environmental Horticulture – Education around proper culture practices, specific groups of plants, and types of gardening. All
activities are intended to help minimize or eliminate the negative environmental impacts of gardening. Bel Air Library classes on
general horticulture, Garden Series, STEM, 4-H or youth camps, Harford Glen
5. Bay-Wise Landscaping Program – Bay-Wise certifications, Bay-Wise preparation
6. Backyard and Community Food Productions – teaching and promoting local, sustainable food production – fruit, vegetables,
herbs, ALL Grow It Eat It, any food gardening articles or displays; Eden Mill, sometimes Harford Glen, St John’s
7. Community Greening – Assisting residents to improve their communities with gardens, plantings and sustainable landscapes,
special landscaping projects; all scholarship activities, Rockfield Manor, HCEO Dahlia Garden
8. Therapeutic Horticulture – Improving the quality of life for vulnerable populations – Brightview Assisted Living
9. Demonstration and Historic Gardens – Liriodendron, Eden Mill Butterfly Garden
10. Special Events, Judging, Information Booths – Work at information table/booth that is not reported under specific subject; Farm
Fair, Festivals for Earth Day & Arbor Day, APG events, all prep for events
11. Internal Administration of MG Program – All administrative work that is not directly related to one of the codes above. For
example, organizing basic training mentoring, hosting, communications (newsletter, website), fundraising, public relations,
marketing, advocacy, committee work, recordkeeping, writing reports, volunteer recognition, H.C. monthly meeting
Prepartion for various talks or classes does not go here. Put the hours under #4 or other code more pertinent.
12. Subjects not covered above – avoid using this code
13. Continuing Education –Education does not count as volunteer work nor its drive time. Monthly meeting (the teaching part)
14. Phone Banks- not in Harford County
15. Speakers- Harford County does not use this code
NOTE: When writing articles or preparing for an event, please place these hours under the specific project area and not into Internal Administration.
January 2015