THE MASTER GARDENERS
The Monday Garden, December 12, 2004, Issue 142
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Last spring I mentioned that I was enrolled in the Connecticut Master Gardeners Program (Bartlett Arboretum location). Well, here’s one of my 27 awesome classmates from the Class of 2004, getting her certificate.
Picture: graduation at the Bartlett Arboretum Nov. 2004
The Master Gardeners Program exists in most states. It’s sponsored of the USA Department of Agriculture, through the state land grant colleges (UConn in Connecticut). Since there’s still time to register for the 2005 classes, that begin as early as January in some locations, I thought that I’d share what I experienced to help you decide whether this is something that you’d like to pursue to improve your home gardening skills, to get started in a career in horticulture, or because you’re involved in horticulture-related community service such as community gardening. Or perhaps, you just like to learn interesting things.