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Branching Out in Your Garden


Saturday, March 22, 2025

8:45 AM to Noon

Frontier Regional High School

South Deerfield, MA

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Saturday, March 29, 2025

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Westfield South Middle School

30 West Silver Street, Westfield, MA

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Saturday, April 5, 2025

9:00 AM to 12:15 PM

Lenox Memorial Middle & High School, Lenox, MA


BRANCHING OUT IN YOUR GARDEN

Doors Open at 8:00 AM for Registration and Refreshments. Between sessions, visit the Marketplace, bring a gently used gardening book to swap, or have your soil tested (pH only).


TOPICS:


  • Small Plants for Small Spaces
  • Sustainable Gardening: Decarbonizing Strategies
  • Pollinator Powerhouse Plants
  • Cyanotypes: Camera-less Photography
  • Garden Tool Sharpening and Maintenance
  • A DIY Approach to Managing Problem Stormwater with Gardens
  • Help for Non-bee and Specialized Pollinators
  • Dahlias 101: Essential Insights on Growing, Harvesting, and Storing
  • The Fall Clean-up- Less is More
  • Dried Flower Swag Workshop


Download the event flyer for more information and to mail in your registration.


Register online via credit card.

LET'S GET GROWING!

Doors Open at 9:00 AM for Registration, Marketplace Fair, Raffle and Refreshments (PLEASE bring your own water bottles. Refills available.)


10 Classes Designed to Educate and Empower the Home Gardener


  • Making Your Garden Edible
  • Native Plants: How My Garden Saved the Planet
  • Updating An Old Garden
  • Gardening in Shades of Shade
  • Healthy Lawns And Low Maintenance Alternatives
  • Vase-Worthy Gardening: Fitting a Cutting Garden into any Home Landscape
  • Growing and Using Herbs from Your Garden
  • Companion Planting: Plants Helping Plants in Your Vegetable Garden
  • Ins and Outs of Houseplants
  • Garden Gold: Soil and Compost


Download the event flyer for more information and to mail in your registration.


Register online via credit card

SPRING INTO GARDENING

Doors open at 8:00 AM for Registration, Vendor Sales, Environmental Organization Tables, Puzzle Sale, Used Gardening Book Sale,. Houseplant Sale & Refreshments.


TOPICS:


• Hands On: Seed-starting and Other Propagation Methods

• How to Create a Well-Mannered Pollinator Garden

• Why Isn’t My Hydrangea Flowering?

• The Magic of Spring Ephemerals and Summer Bulbs

• Hands On: Garden Tools: Hints, Upgrades, and Adaptations

• Ticks!

• Growing Heirloom Tomatoes

• Container Gardening


Download the event flyer for more information and to mail in your registration.


Register online via credit card.





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

 

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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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