New Announcements
1. VIRGINIA BEACH MASTER GARDENERS PRESENT GARDENING TALKS:
Join us on Monday, September 9, 2024, at 7 pm via ZOOM for a Gardening Talks presentation on: Creating Winter Interest in the Garden
Speaker: Heather Gargano, VBMG; Adjunct Professor, TCC Horticulture; Landscape Designer, Garden Girl Designz
Winter gardens don’t have to be drab and lifeless – especially in Tidewater. Heather will present techniques and “out of the box” ideas for spicing up the landscape and creating a garden that entices you to venture out – even in the cold.
Gardening Talks is presented via Zoom and is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. No registration is required. Gardening Talks are one hour.
Go to VBMG.org and click on the Zoom link! Check out upcoming Gardening Talks for 2024 as you explore our website!
2. Fall Leadership Development Training
In-person Leadership Development Training returns this October.
We will have meetings in each district; however, Agents, Coordinators and EMG volunteers may go to any meeting location. Currently, we have the following locations and dates set-up: 10/2 – Culpepper; 10/9 – Bedford; 10/16 – Henrico; 10/23 – SW District TBD; 10/30 – Airfield 4H Center. Each session is scheduled from 10-3.
Our tentative topics include a recorded State Office update, Communications Topics for units/associations, Unit Support offered by the VMGA, the Accessibility and Connection Report (2021) and Project Management including project proposal, evaluation and approval.
Each session will include a working lunch with Lightning Sessions by units on local projects.
We are working on finalizing details and getting the DestinyOne registration site set-up, so be on the lookout for complete details in early September.
Old Announcements:
1. Heart of Virginia Lunch & Learn Series Prince Edward Extension Office, 100 Dominion Dr., Farmville, VA
a. 9/5/2024 – 12-1 pm Bring your lunch and join us for a session on Native Plants.
b. 10/3/24 – 12-1 pm Bring your lunch and join us for a session on Mushrooms
c. 11/21/24 12-1 pm Bring your lunch and join us for a session of fun holiday decoration make and take with Prince Edward Extension Agent, Erin Small. The class is limited in size and registration is required. Call to register 434-392-4246.
2. Symposium: Eco-Friendly Gardening in a Changing Climate – SEPTEMBER 14, 2024 – Presented by Rapidan River Master Gardeners – Featuring Joe Lamp’l, Peggy Singleman, and Kirsten Conrad Learn more
“Eco-Friendly Gardening in a Changing Environment” is a daylong symposium with presentations to address climate change made by national practitioners, organized by the Rapidan River Master Gardeners serving four counties in Virginia’s Northern Piedmont.
Home owners, gardeners, landscape planners and naturalists should register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-eco-friendly-gardening-in-a-changing-climate-tickets-874148490667 Or search for Eco Friendly Gardening Eventbrite.
Presenters are Joe Lamp’l (host of the PBS show Growing a Greener World), Peggy Singlemann (host of the PBS show Virginia Home Grown) and Kirsten Conrad (Agriculture Natural Resources Extension Agent for Arlington County and the City of Alexandria, VA)
3. 2024 PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY PUMPKIN CONTEST Prince George Farmers Market Join the Prince George Master Gardeners for our 2024 Pumpkin Contest on October 26, 2024.
4. 2023 Annual Report now available here