December 18, 2020 STERLING, Ill-The University of Illinois Extension is pleased to announce our newest Master Gardener interns for Whiteside County. LuAnn Meyer and Paula Reid graduated from the Master Gardener program on November 19. This year’s fall class was held as a flipped classroom style. For 12 weeks, trainees were given a reading assignment and 2-4 videos to watch at their own pace before meeting online via zoom with the section instructor once a week. Coursework covered botany, soils and fertility, woody ornamentals/pruning, organic gardening, vegetables, annuals & perennials, fruits, insect identification and control, turf management, disease diagnosis and control, U of I resources, and more!