Michael Potter

Michael Potter started his Texas A&M AgriLife Extension career as a demonstration assistant in 2001 for Nueces County. Potter then began his the role as an AgriLife Extension agent for horticulture and Master Gardener coordinator in 2006. In September of 2012, he became the AgriLife Extension agent for horticulture in Montgomery County. Prior to his Extension career, Michael worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the Big Island of Hawaii as a plant protection and quarantine technician from 1991 - 1997. Potter has worked in both the retail and wholesale nursery industry and as a landscape designer from 1998-2001. His expertise lies in turfgrass management, environmental education, landscape design and water conservation and plant pathology. Potter earned his bachelors degree in plant and soil science and his masters degree in agriculture science both from Texas A&M University - Kingsville.