The Piedmont Master Gardeners Association

460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902-6441    434/872-4580   Fax: 434/872-4578

Cultivating Community: PMG's Volunteer Projects

In 2010, PMG’s members together volunteered 7,646 hours to community and organization projects.  Calculated at the hourly equivalent for volunteer work, the total labor contributed by PMG members last year added up to $160,000.

The true value of our volunteer efforts, of course, has more to do with community pride and commitment than with dollar signs. We love channeling our passion for gardening into opportunities to give back to the communities we call home. Some of our favorite activities focus on sharing our gardening knowledge with friends and neighbors. Last year alone our volunteers logged 1,873 hours at our Horticulture Help Desk, City Market (Charlottesville), Meade Park Market (Charlottesville) and Crozet farmers' market, offering advice and researching garden-related questions. Tree Steward projects garnered
894 hours. Members made time to contribute 620 hours of mentoring to our newest classes of Master Gardeners. To boot, we continued planting and maintaining our first-ever demonstration garden, "The Rock," at the old Ix Building site near Charlottesville's downtown mall. Volunteers also contributed 701 hours to our annual Spring Plant Sale.

Come back and visit this section often for regular updates on our volunteer activities. We hope you'll be inspired to join us or find volunteer opportunities of your own!

"The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the whole world."
-Charles Dudley Warner-

Official Project List

In the community:

Albemarle County Fair

Charlottesville/Albemarle
   Master Gardener Training

City Market (Charlottesville)

Crozet Market

Meade Park Market

4-H

Habitat for Humanity

Heritage Harvest Festival

Historic Garden Week

Horticulture Help Desk

Ivy Creek Butterfly Garden

JABA Intergenerational Gardening

Jefferson Area Board of Aging

PMG Demo Garden

PMG Spring Plant Sale

Rose Garden (Senior Center)

Scottsville Wildflower Patch

Senior Center Ed & Demo Program

Speakers Bureau

Spring Lecture Series

Through the Garden Gate


Inside PMG:

PMG Website

The Cultivator Newsletter

Written Communications

PMG Volunteer News    

 PMG Volunteer Timesheet

 Directions to "The Rock"
(PMG's Demonstration Garden)

 Application for approval of a new project

PMG Volunteer Coordinators contact list  (PMG members and MG students only)

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** PMG Demo Garden:
Weekly work group sessions at "The Rock."  Winter workdays vary according to what needs to be accomplished. See PMG Calendar  for dates and details. Need directions? Click on "Directions" button above. Contact: D. Tompkins.

**Horticulture Help Desk will need volunteers for the 2010-2011 winter season. Contact Debbie Miller to find out more! (See Volunteer Coordinators List, above.)

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