Awards and Recognitions
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Aggie Horticulture's Composting for Kids site was recognized with a Kid Scoop Choice Web Award! on 15 June 2009. |
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Several members of the Aggie Horticulture Team received the Director's Award for Innovative Application of Information Technology in Extension Education at the 2001 Texas Cooperative Extension Conference. |
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The Aggie Horticulture-PLANTanswers Team received the 1997 Texas Agricultural Extension Service's Superior Service Award and the Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence in the team category. |
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Aggie Horticulture received the ASHS Extension Division Educational Materials Award, Consumer Landscape Management Category at the ASHS annual meeting held in Salt Lake City on 22 - 26 July, 1997. |
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The School Gardens section of kinderGARDEN was awarded a Four Star rating by Schoolzone's panel of over 400 expert teachers. This award was in recognition of the fact that it is a very good educational site: useful for teaching and learning and easy to navigate. |
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The Composting for Kids slide set was rated "Wonderful!" and awarded 4 stars on 5/24/2000 by the nationally syndicated newspaper column Surfing the Net with Kids. |
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Wildflowers in bloom and the School Garden resources section of Nutrition in the Garden received the Connected Teacher Hot Five Award for the week of March 23, 2000. |
| The kinderGARDEN section of Aggie Horticulture was named as one of the top 100 educational Web sites for 1999 by The Education Source (no longer online) newsletter. | |
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Wildflowers in bloom, Composting Resources, and Earth-Kindsm Gardening were selected as featured sites in StudyWeb as one of the best educational resources on the web. |
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kinderGARDEN was selected as TecherNet's "Site of the Week" for the week of March 8, 1999. |
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Aggie Horticulture was chosen as an Ask Jeeves Silver Platter Site in recognition of the fact that we answer so many questions. |
| The Plant Tissue Culture Information Exchange site was chosen as HMS Beagle's "Web Pick of the Day" for February 14th, 1999. | |
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Horticulture Magazine reviewed the Wildflowers in bloom section of Aggie Horticulture and found it worthy of the Horticulture Online Seal of Approval. |
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Aggie Horticulture was designated one of the Texas Top 5 Gardening Sites by Suite101.com |
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Education World "A" Rating for the kinderGARDEN site on October 1997. |
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PacBell BlueWeb'n Top Site of the Week for the School Gardens section of kinderGARDEN on 4/24/99. |
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Aggie Horticulture was designated a Suite 101 Southern Gardening Top 5 Site |
| Old Farmer's Almanac Editor's Pick | PLANTanswers |
| 'Best of the Net' Award from The Mining Company for PLANTanswers. | |
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Aggie Horticulture received the Orchid Award for Page Excellence |
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BONUS.COM selected kinderGARDEN for their Editor's Choice Award |
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Virtual Garden Pick of the Crop award |
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Progressive Farmer Online Best of the Internet award |
| Magellan 3 Star Rating for kinderGARDEN. | |
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Times Pick by the Los Angeles Times for PLANTanswers Garlic Information Page on July 3, 1996 |





















