The Piedmont Master Gardeners Association
460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902-6441 434/872-4580 Fax: 434/872-4578
PMG Calendar: Events Close to Home
Ongoing: Albemarle County Cooperative Extension Office Master Gardener Course. For information about schedules and applications, call 434/872-4580. Click here for an overview of the course.
Albemarle County Fair is taking a break in 2011, while looking for a new home. Great volunteer opportunity for PMG'ers!! Check back for details for 2012.
Charlottesville Farmers Market. Saturday mornings, April-October, Water Street parking lot, downtown Charlottesville. PMG staffs a table at the market to answer any gardening questions you can throw at us. For Help Desk help in October or later, please call 434/872-4583, M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Charlottesville Garden Club maintains a calendar of local gardening events throughout the year.
Crozet Farmers Market. Visit PMG's Help Desk at the market from spring until October! Other times, call or drop by the Help Desk at our HQ. 434/872-4583, M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. See you at the market in 2011!!
Fluvanna Master Gardeners sponsor many events of interest to gardening-minded folks.
Heritage Harvest Festival will be held September 16 and 17 at Monticello, just outside of Charlottesville. Workshops on herbs and roses; tour of the Center for Historic Plants; lecture on heirloom tomatoes and seed-saving; food vendors to fill empty stomachs. PMG will be sponsoring a children's hands-on activity area this year.
Ivy Creek Foundation offers guide-led tours throughout the year at the Ivy Creek Natural Area on Hydraulic Road and the Ragged Mountain Natural Area off of Fontaine Avenue, Charlottesville. Workshops, native plant sales, lectures, special after-dark activities.
Meade Park Farmers Market (Wednesdays). Meade Park, Charlottesville. Summertime only.
Monticello offers “Saturdays in the Garden,” a special series of seasonal workshops and tours year round. Workshops throughout the year include planting vineyards, grafting apples, pruning and propagating historic roses, vegetable gardens, holiday wreaths and painting and sketching in the garden. Also at Monticello: Historic Landscape Institute, biennial conference, was held June 13-25, 2010. Theme: "Preserving Jefferson's Gardens and Landscapes." Stay tuned for announcements about the 2012 conference.
Piedmont Environmental Council sponsors workshops and events related to land stewardship, historic sites and viewsheds, wildlife habitat conservation, and local agriculture. They also maintain a calendar of upcoming events. For Charlottesville-Albemarle area events, click here. To learn about upcoming events in neighboring counties, sign up for the PEC's e-mail list.
Piedmont Virginia Community College offers several horticulture-related classes each semester. Check the calendar on the school's website for credit and non-credit courses in landscaping, pruning, organice gardening, viticulture and more.
Rivanna Master Naturalists program maintains a local calendar of events for the greater Charlottesville area.
Rivanna Trails Foundation oversees creation and maintenance of more than 20 miles of walking trails around the city of Charlottesville. Regular maintenance and trailing-building sessions are held monthly. See website for details. Call ahead to volunteer and confirm trailwork location.
"Through the Garden Gate" tours: A series of monthly tours of private informal gardens in the greater Charlottesville area during the summer. Fabulous opportunity to see local gardens not normally open to the public. Second Saturday morning, April, May, June, July and September, 9 to noon. Cost: $5 per person. Click here for a brochure with descriptions and directions for the 2011 season. NO TOUR IN AUGUST.
NOTE: Corrected directions to September TTGG tour:
20 South towards Scottsville. Right onto Rt 726, James River Rd (BB&T on corner). Continue straight and cross over Rt. 6. Turn right at next Stop sign. Continue to 1200 James River Road. [4 miles from BB&T Bank to house/gardens]
Tufton Farm, on the outskirts of Charlottesville, is the home of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants and a working farm affiliated with Monticello. The farm hosts open houses, workshops, and a biennial Historic Plants Symposium. For details about the Symposium, check out the Monticello website. NOTE: The 2011 Festival will be held on September 16 and 17 at Monticello.
University of Virginia's School of Continuing & Professional Studies offers several non-credit personal enrichment courses in the area of "Landscape & Gardening" each semester. Click on link above to visit the SCPS website.
Vintage Virginia Apples (North Garden, VA). Specialists in heirloom fruits. Workshops in grafting and cultivation. Annual summer and fall festivals at Rural Ridge Farm, south of Charlottesville. Workshops for 2011 will be posted on the farm's website. Fall Festival, including crafts, hayrides, an apple pie contest and more is held every November. This year's festival will take place on November 5.
Virginia's Historic Garden Week: April 21-28, 2012.
Virginia Native Plant Society (Jefferson Chapter) sponsors field trips and an annual plant sale (at Ivy Creek Natural Area in the spring). The VNPS online calendar covers events statewide.
Wintergreen Nature Foundation (Wintergreen Resort) offers workshops, hikes and special events year-round, including a Field Studies Institute and a Nature Camp. For offerings, check calendar on Wintergreen's website. Special workshops coming up include survival skills, monarch butterfly 'tagging' and stream ecology. "Mornings in the Mountains" hikes are led by a Foundation Naturalist.
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