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2025 Extension Master Gardener College Save the Date: June 10-15 in Blacksburg!
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Webinar Series
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Feb 18, 2025 – Turfgrass Management and Disease Prevention with Elisabeth Kitchin This session will cover essential practices for maintaining turfgrass lawns, including proper mowing, irrigation, and fertilization. It will also explore strategies for preventing, identifying, and managing common turfgrass diseases, with practical advice for achieving healthy, resilient lawns
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All webinars are recorded and posted in the webinar archive
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Home Food Preservation and Preparation volunteer work: The EMG program is exploring collaboration with VCE’s Master Food Volunteer program. To help us get started, we kindly ask you to complete this quick survey to let us know what type(s) of program(s) you’ve conducted previously and what you’re interested in offering in the future. This will help us strategically plan and provide a roadmap for piloting collaborations.
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NRV Winter Sowing Workshop – Saturday, January 25th (10am – 12pm) – Multi-Purpose Room 1, Montgomery County Government Center – 755 Roanoke St, Christiansburg VA 24073 – $5.00 supply fee (cash or check payable to NRVMGA)
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Join the NRV Master Gardeners for our very popular Winter Sowing Workshop, led by Master Gardener Beth Kirby! You will leave with two of your own completed winter sowing jugs, planted with seeds of your choice.
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Supply fee is waived for current Master Gardeners, Master Gardener Interns and Master Gardener Trainees. For NRV Master Gardeners: This event will count toward continuing education hours for 2025, if you have not attended previously. Be sure to enter these hours into Better Impact after you attend.
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Come early for the Seed Swap – starting at 9am in the Government Center Lobby. Registration is not required for the seed swap. See flyer or New River Valley Master Gardener Association Facebook page for more info. Questions? Please contact nrvmastergardenerassoc@gmail.com
Old January Announcements
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Upcoming Northern Shenandoah Valley Events:
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Seed Exchange: What can one do in the dead of winter when the ground is frozen, and plants are dormant? Please consider joining the NSV EMGs for their annual Seed Exchange on January 18, 2025, from 10am to 2pm. The Seed Exchange will be indoors at a new location, Strasburg High School Cafeteria in Strasburg, Virginia. The new location will help to minimize any weather-related impacts. For those who would like to share their extra seeds or those who might like to acquire free seeds, everyone will leave a winner! For more details, please access the link: https://nsvmga.org/events/seed-exchange/
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Indoor Plant Clinic: Late winter is the perfect time to give your indoor plants a little love. Learn how to take care of the plants you already have. Plus, participants go home with FREE easy-to-grow houseplants that they re-pot from a division or rooting. Please consider joining the fun on February 1, 2025, from 10am to 2pm at Bowman Library in Stephens City, Virginia. NSV EMGs will be on hand to provide plant care basics, along with presenting informative sessions on topics such as Eastern Prickly Pear, Growing Orchids and House Plant Tips and Propagation, etc. Kids are invited, too, and can join in an educational activity. For more details, please access the link: https://nsvmga.org/events/indoor-plant-clinic/