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Each spring the Western Massachusetts Master Gardener Association hosts three symposiums to help gardeners of all abilities expand their gardening knowledge and skills. Workshops cover ornamental gardens, vegetable gardens, backyard fruits, garden design, composting, insect identification, attracting pollinators, gardening with native plants, and the list goes on. If it's a topic of interest to local gardeners, there's sure to be a workshop on it at one of the three symposiums!

Symposiums are held in three locations:

in the Upper Valley at Frontier Regional High School in South Deerfield
in the Lower Valley at Westfield South Middle School in Westfield
in the Berkshires at Lenox Memorial Middle and High School in Lenox

In addition to workshops, symposiums may have keynote speaker, a marketplace with locally produced offerings, book sales, raffles, pH soil testing, and of course refreshments.

Join our mailing list and we'll send you an email when the symposiums' dates and listings of their workshops are available.

What Does Being a Master Gardener Mean?

What does being a Master Gardener mean?

Proud for sure! Master Gardeners have learned a lot and passed a rigorous course in horticultural fundamentals that consumed a big part of our lives while we were doing it, then followed it with an extensive period volunteering on an array of projects.

Challenged! There’s always something new to learn or some new problem on the horizon. Keeping up or feeling pressed to “know” the answer can be daunting. Just remember, even the experts don’t know the answer to everything. The answer is often, “I don’t know but I’ll find out.”

Empowered! As Master Gardeners we’ve learned how to research and investigate, and each of us have developed a network of others we can draw on to find answers. Every new class taken or problem figured out builds on the foundation of the fundamentals we learned in the training course.

Connected! Master Gardeners are an incredibly talented and knowledgeable bunch with a wide range of interests & life experiences. We enjoy working with each other on ongoing WMMGA projects & events that help educate home gardeners as well as maintain local green spaces and support food security.

The Springfield Museums Thank the Master Gardeners

In this video, the Springfield Museums highlight the wonderful work by our volunteer Master Gardeners. Interviews with Master Gardeners Janet Dolder, Carol Hegeman, and Beate Bolan.

What Master Gardeners Do

Like the plants we love, Master Gardeners continue to grow and learn. Being a Master Gardener isn’t a static, one-and done accomplishment. It’s an active commitment to being involved by helping people with their gardening problems in a sustainable way. This takes many forms such as holding the spring symposiums, being at a community garden, or talking at a local library, among many others

Gardening Questions? Ask A Master Gardener!

PHONE HOTLINE: Call the Hotline with your gardening questions at any time: 413-298-5355. WMMGA Master Gardeners will answer your questions and call you back! Please leave your name, your question, your phone number (or email address), and the best time to reach you on the answering machine any day of the week. We will call you back when we have an answer to your question.

EMAIL HOTLINE: Send an email to askwmmga@yahoo.com. What we need to know to answer your question.

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