Gary L. Heilig is a retired Extension Ingham County Horticulture Educator after 34 years of service. He has provided commercial and consumer horticulture programming for primarily the residents of Ingham County but he reached consumers around the state through his extensive live and taped television broadcasts. Gary is well known and highly respected for using multiple methods of teaching such as radio and television, video, online classes, audio files and fact sheets and his YouTube channel. Gary has been part of the Michigan Master Gardener Program since 1981 and continues to teach Vegetables, Fruit, Turf, Plant Science, Soil Science, Indoor Plants and IPM classes. He was the one of the original authors of the Master Gardener Manual (vegetable section).<br />He was part of the MSU Extension Consumer Horticulture Team, which received the eXtension Working Differently in Extension Award for the creation of the Gardening in Michigan Web site. He also received a Communication Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents.<br />