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Virginia Beach Master Gardeners
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The Virginia Beach Master Gardener program began
in 1982 and has trained 1,050 people from 1982 through 2007.
In 2007, 214 active Master Gardeners
worked on 26 projects in our city. They contributed 19,889 hours toward these
projects.
"Helping People Grow"
We are proud individuals who meet on common
ground.
For questions or comment contact:
Susan French
Extension Agent
Environmental Horticulture
Agriculture Building, Municipal Center
2449 Princess Road
Virginia Beach, VA 23456
757/385-4769,
Fax 757/385-5684
Email
sfrench@vbgov.com
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Advice for gardening in the Hampton Roads/ Tidewater area







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Spring Plant Sale
Saturday, May 10, 2008
(Rain or Shine)
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Virginia Beach Farmer’s
Market
3640 Dam Neck Road
Virginia Beach
The 2008 Spring Plant Sale
includes perennials, annuals, vegetables, shrubs and trees grown by Virginia
Beach Master Gardeners. Many of the plants are
unusual, or hard to find varieties that have flourished for these skilled
gardeners and are grown especially to share with other plant lovers.

Do you need a speaker?
Master Gardeners can help!.
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The Virginia Beach Master
Gardener Association is a group of Master Gardener volunteers trained to provide
our community with gardening and horticulture information drawn from their
training, personal experiences and research of Virginia Tech and Virginia
State Universities
To become a Master Gardener,
everyone must complete the Master Gardener training. A program has been
established to provide both novice and experienced gardeners a basic
background in horticulture.
The Master Gardener course, a 50-hour program,
is held once a year through the local extension office.
After the course, the Master Gardener Interns
have one full year to volunteer 50 hours in order to complete their training
and to be recognized as official Master Gardeners. To remain a Master
Gardener, volunteers must give 40 hours each year thereafter, 8 hours of
which must be in continuing education.
For more
information call Virginia Cooperative
Extension, Virginia Beach Office at:
757-385-4769

Origins of
the program:
The Master Gardener Program was created to
meet an enormous increase in requests from home gardeners for
horticultural information. This increase is primarily derived
from the urban and transient nature of modern American life.
Fifty
years ago, an Extension agent dealt with the questions of a few
hundred farm families. In many regions, however, land that once
constituted a single farm now encompasses several subdivisions,
increasing by the hundreds the number of families an Extension Office
must serve.
In addition, many of these
new families are recent arrivals, and are unfamiliar with the
grasses, shrubs, trees and diseases which comprise the
micro-environment of their new urban or suburban home. They
often call their local Extension Office for advice on what to plant and
how to care for it.
Consequently, the Master
Gardener Program was created in 1972 in the state of Washington. Since then
it has spread to 48 states.
Master Gardeners have become a vital
part of the Extension's ability to provide consumers with up-to-date, reliable
knowledge so they can enjoy and protect the value of horticulture around
their homes. Master Gardening has also become a fun and useful volunteer
activity.
Updated 3-22-2008
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