There is an abundance of valuable knowledge, advice, and wisdom shared in the NTVG Facebook group, but Facebook is a poor tool for storing and categorizing this information. For those that feel compelled to help save good information and help more people grow their own food, here are some ideas:
- Answer questions on social media with known-good answers and provide links to the answers when possible (such as individual answers found in the NTVG Knowledgebase, NTVG forum, or the NTVG blog, university websites, master gardener websites, etc)
- Preserve good information by copying conversations and/or links to the NTVG forum in a relevant category or board.
- Create new articles based on your own experience or your own research. Ideally, articles will contain a few pictures and links to sources for more information that are considered reputable. Publish the article in a way that will give it a permanent home, then link to the article in the NTVG forum using an appropriate category and board.
- Volunteer to help answer questions in the Ask NTVG Facebook group. More experienced gardeners might also consider signing up to answer questions submitted to the NTVG helpdesk, where they can be assigned to a specialty team so questions in their field of expertise are assigned to them, and then creating FAQ articles in the NTVG Knowledgebase for questions that get asked frequently.
You may also submit your question/problem/photo to: http://www.ccmgatx.org/community-service/information-center.aspx for help. This is the link to the Collin County Gardener’s Help Desk. All answers are research-based. This Help Desk is part of the Collin County Extension Service.
CCMGA generally won’t answer questions that are from people outside of Collin County. All the counties in the metroplex have a master gardener helpdesk though.