The Gibson County Master Gardener Association first emerged as a sub-chapter of Southwest Indiana Master Gardener Association (SWIMGA) in Vanderburg County.  In 1998 SWIMGA's Nancy Branham, a leader in Gibson County's Green Thumb Garden Club, and other members of SWIMGA and the Green Thumb Garden Club who lived in Gibson  County began to work to create a separate Master Gardener association for Gibson County.  At that time Terry Keeneth headed the Gibson County Extension Office and wrote a column called "Ask A Farmer" which appeared in The Clarion.  Twenty-one people took the first Gibson County Master Gardener Class and graduated in April 1999 and began to help organizations in the county as the Gibson County Master Gardener Association.  The news stories below record how this all happened.