{"id":245,"date":"2011-03-05T17:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messyblessings.com\/garden\/?p=245"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:18:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:18:59","slug":"local-resources-the-dcmga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/2011\/03\/05\/local-resources-the-dcmga\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Resources: The DCMGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for some gardening help in the Denton area? Check out the DCMGA:<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dcmga.com\/\">Denton County Master Gardner Association<\/a> (DCMGA) has a mission:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;to educate Denton County residents about safe, effective and sustainable horticultural practices that promote development of healthy gardens, landscapes and communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The DCGMA is a volunteer program under the guidance of the Denton County Horticulture Agent. (I came across their website\u00a0 while exploring the <a href=\"http:\/\/agrilifeextension.tamu.edu\/\">Texas AgriLife Extension Service&#8217;s website<\/a>.) There&#8217;s a lot of helpful information available on the DCMGA website, including information specific to <a href=\"http:\/\/dcmga.com\/north-texas-gardening\/\">North Texas Gardening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was beginning to feel a little overwhelmed trying to sift through the gardening information I had been reading on the internet and in books, so I emailed the DCMGA help desk with my questions. (You can even give them a call, too!)<\/p>\n<p>Within three days, I received a professional, courteous, and helpful reply with science-based answers. Thank you, DCMGA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for some gardening help in the Denton area? Check out the DCMGA: The Denton County Master Gardner Association (DCMGA) has a mission: &#8230;to educate Denton County residents about safe, effective and sustainable horticultural practices that promote development of healthy gardens, landscapes and communities. The DCGMA is a volunteer program under the guidance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,29,30,39,40,42,45,47,59,64],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-notes","tag-community","tag-dcmga","tag-denton","tag-gardening","tag-help","tag-horticulture","tag-master-gardener","tag-north-texas","tag-resources","tag-texas-agrilife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}