PORT ANGELES — Master Gardeners Lois Bellamy, Bob Cain, Judy Mann and Patricia Star-Bowen have been presented Master Gardeners Golden Trowel Awards.
Each Golden Trowel Award honoree received an engraved rock paver, which has been installed in a pathway at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden along with the 70 previous award recipients.
The Golden Trowel Award recognizes Master Gardeners who have been active in the organization for more than five years, dedicated more than 750 hours of volunteer time and demonstrated outstanding service in promoting education and environmental stewardship to the community, said Lorrie Hamilton, WSU Clallam County Master Gardener program coordinator.
Hamilton said the award recipients who were recognized at this year’s events have contributed a combined total of more than 6,000 hours educating home gardeners through plant clinics, demonstration gardens, lectures, presentations and other events.
Bellamy, a Port Angeles Master Gardener since 2007, has initiated a number of demonstration and research projects regarding successful varieties and planting methods for growing vegetables.
She served as manager of the Robin Hill demonstration garden, was a member of the Master Gardener of Clallam County Foundation board and redesigned the foundation’s website.
Cain, also from Port Angeles, was recognized as the Master Gardener Intern of the Year in 2009 and Master Gardener of the Year in 2011.
He provides monthly pest-management education in the Master Gardener Newsletter and presents frequently at the Green Thumb Garden Tips Brown Bags and Class Act at Woodcock educational series, Soroptimist Garden Gala and other events.
Cain is a regular contributor to the Sequim Gazette gardening column and KSQM Radio Gardening Show.
Mann, a resident of Sequim, has been an active master gardener since 2005.
She co-chaired the foundation’s spring and fall plant sales for over three years and also was a garden coordinator for the Petals and Pathways Home Garden Tour for four years.
She has made several presentations on worm bin composting.
Star-Bowen, owner of Montevista Medicinal Herb Farm in Port Angeles, also is a member of the Sequim Lavender Growers Association and has been a master gardener since 2003.
She oversees the Woodcock Demonstration Garden medicinal herb beds and shares her expertise on medicinal herbs through the Master Gardener’s educational series, in addition to providing gardening education through plant clinics and the foundation’s plant sale.