Loudoun County Master Gardeners
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Welcome! Welcome to the Loudoun County Master Gardener web site, your on-line source of gardening information for Loudoun County, Virginia. Our mission is to educate Loudoun County residents about safe, effective and sustainable landscape management practices. We are volunteers who have received extensive training under the auspices of Virginia Tech and the Loudoun County Cooperative Extension office to provide unbiased research-based horticultural information, tips, techniques and advice to the community. We serve the community through: Virginia Cooperative Extension is an educational outreach program of Virginia's land grant universities: Virginia Tech and Virginia State University, and a part of the national Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. Every state has a Cooperative Extension office and now 48 states have a Master Gardener Program. The Master Gardener Program was established to assist the Extension office in meeting the enormous increase in requests from homeowners for horticultural advice. "Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners (VCE-MGs) are a vital part of Virginia Cooperative Extension with more than 4,000 active volunteers in nearly all counties throughout the Commonwealth. In 2003, VCE-MGs contributed more than 230,000 hours and made more than 350,000 contacts on behalf of VCE and Virginia Tech. The amount of volunteer time provided by VCE-MGs is comparable to 111 full time equivalents and has an economic value of nearly $4.6 million. VCE Master Gardener volunteers are an invaluable and irreplaceable asset to the citizens of Virginia." David D. Close, State Master Gardener Coordinator, Virginia Tech. |
Important Dates
Children's Garden Workshop Schedule
June 2. Lunch and Learn. Butterfly Gardens. Barbara Arnold. Noon-1 Demo Garden at Ida Lee.
June 4. Creating an Urban Oasis. Mary Stickley, the Gardens and Grounds Manager for the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
June
20 Vegetable Workshop.
July 7. Lunch and Learn. Composting. Dave Hellums. Noon-1 Demo Garden at Ida Lee.
July
9. Children & Youth Gardening. Shawn Akard, outdoor
education coordinator for Hollin Meadows Science and
August 4. Lunch and Learn. Veggies. Irene Mandracchia and Jan Cranston. Noon-1 Demo Garden at Ida Lee.
August 6. Native Plants for the Birds and the Bees. Kim Strader, Curatorial Assistant at Blandy.
September 1. Lunch and Learn. Japanese Floral Arranging. Elaine Hawn. Noon-1 Demo Garden at Ida Lee.
September 3. Master Gardener's Favorite Native Trees and Shrubs
October 1. Remarkable Trees of Virginia. Dr. Jeff Kirwin, Virginia Tech.
November 5. Orchids and Things, Questions from the Crowd. Alex Personius
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