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ONGOING: Work continues on the PMG Demo Garden on Tuesdays, 9 a.m. To stay in the loop, contact Dorothy Tompkins at dorothytompkins@mac.com. Dorothy will send out regular e-mails to keep volunteers up-to-date. Click here for directions to the Demo Garden. Even if you can't help out, come see what we're up to!! PMG contacts: Dorothy Tompkins and Jacki Vawter.

!! MARCH program: "Mushrooms," presented by Mark Jones. March 1.  PMG members only.


MARCH: PMG Spring Lecture Series! 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m, Albemarle County Office Building. Click here for brochure! $8/lecture; $25/series.

March 8: Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm: "Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer."

March 15: Barbara Pleasant: "Getting Started in Organic Food Gardening."

March 22: Catriona Tudor Erler: "Thinking Outside the Boxwood."

March 29: Vincent Simone: "Creating a Sustainable Landscape."



!! APRIL program: "Invasive Species," presented by Michael Raupp. April 5.  PMG members only.


!! MAY program: Field trip to Sandy's Plants in Mechanicsville, VA. May 10. PMG members only.


!! JUNE program: "Native Plants," presented by Marion Lobstein. June 7. PMG members only.

!! JULY program: Annual picnic.  PMG members only.

No August program

!! SEPTEMBER program: "Evaluating 'Going Green'," presented by Karen Firehook. September 6.  PMG members only.


!! OCTOBER program: "Trails in Albemarle," presented by Tucker Rollins and "State Parks," presented by Ellen Powell. October 4.  PMG members only.


!! NOVEMBER program: "Ferns," presented by Chip Morgan. PMG members only.

!! DECEMBER program: Annual PMG Holiday Party. PMG members only.

Check out our Close to Home and Beyond Our Backyard calendars for non-PMG events in Charlottesville, Albemarle, surrounding counties, the Shenandoah Valley, and elsewhere in the mid-Atlantic region. For statewide master gardening events, see the VMGA entry in the Close to Home calendar.