{"id":4418,"date":"2019-11-22T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:20:37","slug":"2019-all-america-selections-design-challenge-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/2019-all-america-selections-design-challenge-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 All-America Selections Design Challenge Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again several of our Purdue Extension Master Gardener (EMG) volunteer gardens placed in their respective categories.\u00a0 Our talented EMG volunteers integrated the 2019 theme \u201cRe-Use, Recycle, Re-Imagine\u201d into their garden designs while featuring AAS Winner varieties.<\/p>\n

In Category 1 (0-10,000 visitors), the Master Gardener Association of Tippecanoe County<\/a> won first place for having the most all-encompassing use of this year\u2019s theme. <\/strong>\u00a0They upcycled items destined for the landfill as props and holders for the AAS Winner plants and reused plants from their 2018 garden.\u00a0 The garden displayed money-saving gardening solutions by using plastic milk jugs, nesting boxes, and old satellite dishes.\u00a0 Produce from the garden were donated to the local Salvation Army to help alleviate food insecurity. To learn more about this award and their gardens visit their page on the AAS website.<\/p>\n

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Master Gardener Association of Tippecanoe County Display Gardens, Lafayette, Indiana.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Master Gardener Association of Tippecanoe County Display Gardens, Lafayette, Indiana.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Master Gardener Association of Tippecanoe County Display Gardens, Lafayette, Indiana.<\/p><\/div>\n

First place in Category 2 (10,000-100,000 visitors) went to Purdue Extension Marion County Demonstration Garden<\/a>.<\/strong> They submitted a drone video<\/a> to AAS showcasing their garden.\u00a0 They held several community outreach programs that not only highlighted the AAS varieties but also the ways the attendees can reduce, reuse, recycle and reimagine their own gardens. To learn more about this award and their gardens visit their page on the AAS website.<\/p>\n

An honorable mentioned in Category 1 (0-10,000 visitors) went to the Southwest Indiana Master Gardener<\/a> Demonstration Gardens in Evansville for their great use of AAS signage<\/strong>. To learn more about this award and their garden visit their page on the AAS website.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to these Purdue Extension Master Gardener volunteers for their excellent work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again several of our Purdue Extension Master Gardener (EMG) volunteer gardens placed in their respective categories.\u00a0 Our talented EMG volunteers integrated the 2019 theme \u201cRe-Use, Recycle, Re-Imagine\u201d into their garden designs while featuring AAS Winner varieties. In Category 1 (0-10,000 visitors), the Master Gardener Association of Tippecanoe County won first place for having the…Read more about 2019 All-America Selections Design Challenge Winners Announced<\/span>[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":4425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mg-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13039,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/13039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hla\/sites\/master-gardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}