Bios     >Host-Maggie Lawrence     >Contributor-Kerry Smith     >Contributor-Dave Williams        >Contributor-J. Raymond Kessler, Jr.      >Contributor-Joe Kemble       >Contributor-Charles C. Mitchell Kerry Parker Smith       Kerry Smith is a horticulture associate in the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES). Reaching the needs of county Extension personnel as well as the consumer, she delivers training, programs, and timely, research-based information for home horticulture. Kerry is also the state coordinator for the Alabama Master Gardener Program (www.aces.edu/mg/), a volunteer group assisting the ACES mission. Before joining the ACES staff, Kerry was an interpretive horticulturist with the Education Department in the Gardens at Callaway. She has been a school teacher, an estate gardener, and many things in between. Kerry combines her love of horticulture with her experience in the classroom to teach gardening and conservation programs.       Kerry, a native of north Florida, earned a master's degree in Ornamental Horticulture from Auburn University with a minor in urban forestry. She learned an appreciation of gardening from her mother’s daylilies and an appreciation of the earth from her father’s vegetable rows. Her family now includes her husband, Chris, and their two dogs. Chris also enjoys gardening, but the dogs are still in training.