2008 Master Gardener Graduates
Offered every spring, the Master Gardener Volunteer Training Program provides intense gardening training to enable volunteers to help low-income residents grow their own food. The curriculum emphasizes organic gardening and covers vegetables, fruits, flowers, shrubs, trees, soils, composting, pests and harvesting. Once trained, Master Gardeners provide free gardening workshops and their technical expertise to approximately 60 public community gardens, hundreds of school gardens, and many senior and shelter gardens throughout Los Angeles County.
2010 Master Gardener Volunteer Training Program
1) To receive information and to apply, you must be on one or both of the e-mail lists of our program priorities. Please see the invitation on our home page.
2) Application packets will be available from December 1, 2009 through
January 15, 2010.
3) We usually receive more than 200 applications. We can only accept 50 applicants.
4) The main criteria for acceptance into the MG program are: prior community service, working with low-income people of diverse cultures, initiative in starting and carrying out projects.
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To Request FREE Master Gardener Technical Assistance
LA County Master Gardener Volunteers consult, advise and teach a variety of gardening topics to groups, including community and school gardens, particularly to low-income gardeners. If you'd like to submit a request for MG technical assistance, please send an email to ydsavio@ucdavis.edu with the following information:
Date (include day of the week)
Time
Activity Name
Sponsoring Group
Location Address (with helpful directions)
Kind of Assistance Needed (Please note that Master Gardeners are not available for labor work)
Contact Person (phone number and email address)
If you do not get a response within a month, please submit your request again.