Welcome to Baltimore County
Master Gardeners!
We bring together people with passion, energy, and a desire to preserve and improve our landscape and the food we put on the table. We’ve been enlightened by 40+ hours of classes on horticulture from experts at the University of Maryland Cooperative, which shares the university’s research through the master gardener program. In return, we volunteer to educate others in our community.
Our members participate in a great variety of projects around the county and are always interested in hearing about new ways in which we can carry out our mission to educate county residents about safe, effective, and sustainable horticultural practices that build healthy gardens, landscapes, and communities. Our projects include showing senior citizens how to make salad gardens for their kitchens, so they can pluck fresh greens for dinner every night, helping elementary and middle schools conserve energy by turning “green,” and planting nutritious veggies on school grounds that kids can harvest and cook into scrumptious meals! We offer vegetable gardening classes for all residents.
We also offer Ask a Master Gardener plant clinics where the public can receive answers to their gardening dilemmas. Through our Bay-Wise program we teach landscaping practices that will help protect and preserve the Chesapeake Bay. We are also active in the Jennifer Branch Upland Restoration and Preservation Project in Carney and Cub Hill and in native plant education at the Irvine Nature Center. Other projects include Oregon Ridge, Cromwell Valley Park, Marshy Point and planning for Baltimore County's upcoming agricultural center. Our Speaker's Bureau includes master gardeners willing to share their knowledge on all the above subjects as well as topics such as rain gardens and deer control.
The possibilities are exciting.
Why not join us?