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Volunteer OPPORTUNITIES |
Our Volunteers Support
Schools |
Algoma |
Kewaunee |
County |
We Care |
KCGC Scholarship |
Helped Library with their Start up garden |
Marina Planters |
Plant Sale |
Heifer International |
Teaching Kids how to garden |
Maintain Gardens at Visitor Center |
Weeding Kewaunee City Gardens |
Dana Farm |
Have given hour long talks to Diabetes group as to the benefits of gardening to promote a healthy lifestyle |
Answer Horticulture questions |
Garden upkeep for hospital |
Organizing Kewaunee Community Garden |
Donated money to all 3 Community Gardens |
America the Beautiful Program |
Answer questions from Hot Line |
Planter for City of Algoma |
Plant & maintain Trees and shrubs at Ag Heritage Site |
Raised Plants for Plant Sale |
Farm Tech Days |
Provided Education to Girl Scouts and Algoma Hort. Students |
Bird City Event |
Community Congregational Church Kewaunee |
Hosted Garden Tours in our gardens |
Ag Heritage Days |
Donated to the Algoma Science Department |
Community Garden in Algoma |
Kewaunee Beautification Committee |
Worked at developing plants at Dana Farms |
Monthly Educational Program |
Donated to the Kewaunee AG Department |
Helped plant annual flowers for Algoma City |
Kewaunee Library Plan |
Organized Bus Tours to Amazing Gardens |
Monthly Educational Program |
Plants and flower s at Algoma Library |
Donated Vegetables to Kewaunee County Food Pantry |
Arrange tours to public Gardens |
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Donated Plants to Algoma High School Gardens |
Master Gardener new rules
Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak and guidelines from Wisconsin Department of Health Services, UW-Madison, and federal agencies:
All Master Gardener Program volunteer requirements are suspended for the remainder of the year. This means MGVs will be able to report less than 24 hours of volunteer activity and still be able to maintain certification status. The 10 hour minimum of Continuing Education remains in place.
Do NOT let the volunteer requirements of the program jeopardize your health and well-being; Our priority is for you to stay home and be healthy.
The following activities are cancelled for now through May (please anticipate longer):
Face to face activities regardless of number attending including meetings, educational activities, and other volunteer activities
Bus trips
Plant sales
The following activities are currently allowable (subject to change):
Ongoing online continuing education activities approved by Extension staff.
Volunteerism that can be done from home, such as newsletter creation, social media updates, and similar.
Meetings, using phone and webinar technology.
The situation will continually be assessed and updates will be provided.
I know this is a disappointing situation for many of you. It is a necessary step for the protection of volunteers, staff, and clientele; and we hope to reduce the stress and burden on volunteers and staff as we work remotely.
For the latest information on COVID-19, visit the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and your county health department.
Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak and guidelines from Wisconsin Department of Health Services, UW-Madison, and federal agencies:
All Master Gardener Program volunteer requirements are suspended for the remainder of the year. This means MGVs will be able to report less than 24 hours of volunteer activity and still be able to maintain certification status. The 10 hour minimum of Continuing Education remains in place.
Do NOT let the volunteer requirements of the program jeopardize your health and well-being; Our priority is for you to stay home and be healthy.
The following activities are cancelled for now through May (please anticipate longer):
Face to face activities regardless of number attending including meetings, educational activities, and other volunteer activities
Bus trips
Plant sales
The following activities are currently allowable (subject to change):
Ongoing online continuing education activities approved by Extension staff.
Volunteerism that can be done from home, such as newsletter creation, social media updates, and similar.
Meetings, using phone and webinar technology.
The situation will continually be assessed and updates will be provided.
I know this is a disappointing situation for many of you. It is a necessary step for the protection of volunteers, staff, and clientele; and we hope to reduce the stress and burden on volunteers and staff as we work remotely.
For the latest information on COVID-19, visit the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and your county health department.
ANNUAL WEED AND FEED - DANA FARM
JUNE |
JULY |
AUGUST |
SEPTEMBER |
OCTOBER |
W&F KCGC |
Open Weeding |
W&F KCGC & Youth |
Open Weeding |
W&F KCGC |
Date: TBD |
Check list in shed for areas to concentrate on. |
Date: TBD |
Check list in shed for areas to concentrate on. |
Date: TBD |
Time: Weeding 4pm to 6pm followed by dinner provided by the Kewaunee County Garden Club.
Dana Farm
Mrs. Olga Dana and Dr. George Moore, son of Ransom A. Moore, 4-H innovator, short course director, and plant breeder were present, along with 4-H members, for the dedication at Dana Farm on June 5, 1961, which would have been the 100th birthday of Ransom A. Moore.
The plaque located on the large rock at Dana Farm reads:
“In appreciation of the achievements of Ransom Asa Moore as superintendent of schools of this county and as agronomist and a builder of the short course in agriculture at the University of Wisconsin.
This tablet is placed near his birthplace and where in 1881, he first taught school.
Presented by the people of Kewaunee County 1929”
In 1895, “Daddy” Moore (Ransom Moore) was known to thousands of short course boys throughout the state, and joined the staff of the “farm school” at Wisconsin College of Agriculture in Madison. After 40 years at the “U”, R. A. Moore retired June 8, 1935. Ransom Moore, with limited schooling, had fought his way through volumes to pass a teaching exam at age 21. He taught for 8 years before becoming Superintendent of Kewaunee County Schools. At the “U” he became so interested in grains that the Department of Agronomy was established.
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Dr. Dana P. Dana, a native of Carlton, was born March 13, 1887, to John B. and Augusta (Peters) Dishmaker. He was their only son, and moved to Kewaunee in 1892. He graduated from local high school in 1905. After teaching a rural school one year, he entered the Northwestern University Medical School. There, he received the degree of M.D. in 1910 and began the practice of medicine in Kewaunee the same year.
In October, 1917, he married Olga Bertha Haney, daughter of John L. and Laura (Grimmer) Haney. Dr. Dana and Olga had three sons: John Haney Dana,
D. Byron Dana, and David Michael Dana.
When the United States entered the World War in 1917, he enlisted as First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army. He served at Fort Riley, Kansas; at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, at Corpus Christie, Texas; and at Camp Greenleaf, Georga. At the close of the war he was discharged and returned to Kewaunee to resume the practice of medicine and surgery. In 1925, in partnership with Dr. L. E. Dockry, he established a clinic and private hospital with facilities to handle any medical or surgical needs of the community.
Among his other activities, Dr. Dana was: Vice-President of Kewaunee Manufacturing Co.; Vice-President of Algoma Plywood and Veneer Co.; director of the State Bank of Kewaunee; member of the American Medical Association,
the Academy of Medicine, State Medical Society, American Legion, and the Masonic Lodge. His religious affiliations were with community Congregational Church, where he was an officer.
Dr. Dana passed away in 1943.
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Olga Dana was very active and well known in the City of Kewaunee. She was a patroness of the arts and humanities and a director of Kewaunee Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, now known as Kewaunee Engineering.
Olga gave the Dana Farm property, approximately 65 acres of farmland including the log cabin that was Ransom Moore’s birthplace, to the county for the purpose of agricultural education and recreation.
Olga lived on Rose Street until she left around 1953 when she lived in Ephraim in the summer and California in the winter. She died Oct. 10, 1974 at the age of 83.
Dana Farm History
Mrs. Olga Dana and Dr. George Moore, son of Ransom A. Moore, 4-H innovator, short course director, and plant breeder were present, along with 4-H members, for the dedication at Dana Farm on June 5, 1961, which would have been the 100th birthday of Ransom A. Moore.
The plaque located on the large rock at Dana Farm reads:
“In appreciation of the achievements of Ransom Asa Moore as superintendent of schools of this county and as agronomist and a builder of the short course in agriculture at the University of Wisconsin.
This tablet is placed near his birthplace and where in 1881, he first taught school.
Presented by the people of Kewaunee County 1929”
In 1895, “Daddy” Moore (Ransom Moore) was known to thousands of short course boys throughout the state, and joined the staff of the “farm school” at Wisconsin College of Agriculture in Madison. After 40 years at the “U”, R. A. Moore retired June 8, 1935. Ransom Moore, with limited schooling, had fought his way through volumes to pass a teaching exam at age 21. He taught for 8 years before becoming Superintendent of Kewaunee County Schools. At the “U” he became so interested in grains that the Department of Agronomy was established.
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Dr. Dana P. Dana, a native of Carlton, was born March 13, 1887, to John B. and Augusta (Peters) Dishmaker. He was their only son, and moved to Kewaunee in 1892. He graduated from local high school in 1905. After teaching a rural school one year, he entered the Northwestern University Medical School. There, he received the degree of M.D. in 1910 and began the practice of medicine in Kewaunee the same year.
In October, 1917, he married Olga Bertha Haney, daughter of John L. and Laura (Grimmer) Haney. Dr. Dana and Olga had three sons: John Haney Dana,
D. Byron Dana, and David Michael Dana.
When the United States entered the World War in 1917, he enlisted as First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army. He served at Fort Riley, Kansas; at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, at Corpus Christie, Texas; and at Camp Greenleaf, Georga. At the close of the war he was discharged and returned to Kewaunee to resume the practice of medicine and surgery. In 1925, in partnership with Dr. L. E. Dockry, he established a clinic and private hospital with facilities to handle any medical or surgical needs of the community.
Among his other activities, Dr. Dana was: Vice-President of Kewaunee Manufacturing Co.; Vice-President of Algoma Plywood and Veneer Co.; director of the State Bank of Kewaunee; member of the American Medical Association,
the Academy of Medicine, State Medical Society, American Legion, and the Masonic Lodge. His religious affiliations were with community Congregational Church, where he was an officer.
Dr. Dana passed away in 1943.
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Olga Dana was very active and well known in the City of Kewaunee. She was a patroness of the arts and humanities and a director of Kewaunee Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, now known as Kewaunee Engineering.
Olga gave the Dana Farm property, approximately 65 acres of farmland including the log cabin that was Ransom Moore’s birthplace, to the county for the purpose of agricultural education and recreation.
Olga lived on Rose Street until she left around 1953 when she lived in Ephraim in the summer and California in the winter. She died Oct. 10, 1974 at the age of 83.
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