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SUMMARY:How Your Garden and Others Can Help Address Food Insecurity
DESCRIPTION:Aleen Carey of Cultivate Charlottesville\nFood insecurity and food access are serious problems for many people in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Community gardens—land cultivated by a group of people individually or collectively—can help. Join Aleen Carey (Executive Director\, Cultivate Charlottesville) and leaders of Piedmont Master Gardeners community garden projects to learn about the scope of food insecurity in our area\, some of the efforts to address it\, and simple things you can do in your own garden to help. Our other speakers will include Edward Brooks\, community engagement program manager for the B.F. Yancey School Community Center in Porters-Esmont\, and Ann Majewski\, a Master Gardener and a volunteer with the Bread & Roses ministry of Trinity Episcopal Church in Charlottesville. \nEdward Brooks (second from right) with (from left) Master Gardeners Kim Tate\, Barbara Templeton\, Judy Brochu-Blake\, Jennifer Schnarre and John Bruner in the B.F. Yancey School community garden\nRegister for this free event here.
URL:https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/how-your-garden-can-help-with-food-insecurity/
LOCATION:The Center at Belvedere\, 540 Belvedere Boulevard\, Charlottesville\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers Bureau,The Center Series
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SUMMARY:“Turn Your Garbage to Gold\,” an Outdoor Workshop on Composting
DESCRIPTION:At 10 a.m. Saturday\, June 14\, the Piedmont Master Gardeners will present “Turn Your Garbage to Gold\,” the next in a series of free outdoor workshops on composting. It will be held at the compost demonstration site in the Bread & Roses Gardens at Trinity Episcopal Church\, 1118 Preston Avenue\, Charlottesville. \nThe workshop will showcase a range of techniques for turning household waste such as food scraps\, yard trimmings\, uncoated paper\, cardboard\, and wood waste into the ideal soil amendment for the yard and garden. It will also show how all households\, large and small\, can keep compostable waste out of landfills. When added to a landfill\, food scraps decompose anaerobically (without oxygen) and release methane\, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. When composted\, food scraps contribute to healthy soil and plants and to cleaner water and air. \nSpace is limited. Register below to reserve your place in the class. Registration closes at 5 p.m. June 13\, or when the class is full.
URL:https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/turn-your-garbage-to-gold-an-outdoor-workshop-on-composting/
LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Church\, 1118 Preston Avenue\, Charlottesville\, VA\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Through The Garden Gate" Returns with Free Pollinator Week Garden Tours
DESCRIPTION:The Piedmont Master Gardeners’ Through the Garden Gate program returns this summer with intermittent “pop-up” garden tours emphasizing sustainability\, based on the Eight Essential Elements of Conservation Landscaping developed by the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council. Gardens on the tours will serve as outdoor classrooms\, educating the public on how best management practices help preserve our region’s native plants\, habitats and wildlife\, all critical elements in protecting biodiversity and our watershed. \nFor the first round of tours\, the Piedmont Master Gardeners are pleased to join the Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener state office and the Governor of Virginia in recognizing National Pollinator Week\, June 16-22\, and the critical role pollinators play in our gardens\, ecosystems and food production. The free tours will feature three pollinator and conservation landscaping demonstration gardens on Saturday\, June 21\, from 9 a.m. to noon. Tours will occur at the following sites approximately every hour on the hour\, starting at 9 a.m.:  \n\nThe Rose and Pollinator Gardens at The Center at Belvedere\, 540 Belvedere Blvd. (off East Rio Road). Tours will focus on how to care for roses organically and how to grow native plants for pollinators in the landscape and in containers for small spaces\, such as a balcony or patio. Visitors will learn pollinator-friendly practices that will help them design their own gardens to support pollinators and other wildlife.\nThe Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital Demonstration Garden\, 500 Martha Jefferson Dr.\, adjacent to the amphitheater near the Sentara Martha Jefferson Cancer Center. Visitors will learn to identify and care for mostly native pollinator plants that thrive in hot\, sunny conditions\, in an area that was backfilled with compacted red clay soil. They will also learn about how the garden has evolved over the years and about plantings for blooms in at least three seasons. \nThe Bread & Roses Gardens at Trinity Episcopal Church\, 1118 Preston Ave. These demonstration gardens highlight sustainable agriculture in an urban setting\, using principles based on conservation landscaping and organic gardening\, both in the vegetable gardens and in the native habitat landscape plantings. The area abounds with native and edible plants that have been carefully selected to provide food\, shelter\, and habitat for native insects and pollinators\, including birds\, while also providing healthy food for the community. This approach helps maintain habitat biodiversity and promotes pollination of food crops in the garden.\n\nThe tours will also demonstrate how sustainability extends to waste management. For example\, rainwater is collected for use in the gardens. Compost bins are used to convert organic garden waste into valuable soil amendments\, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers. In addition\, a vermicomposting system uses earthworms to break down organic matter into “compost tea.” This nutrient-rich tea enhances the quality of the compost and improves the health of the soil. \nOver the years\, the Piedmont Master Gardeners have partnered with The Center at Belvedere\, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and the Bread & Roses ministry at Trinity Church to help develop and/or maintain these educational demonstration gardens.
URL:https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/through-the-garden-gate-returns-with-pollinator-week-garden-tours/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Through the Garden Gate
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SUMMARY:Garden Basics: Growing Tomatoes with Confidence
DESCRIPTION:Flavorful\, vine-ripened tomatoes are often the main reason many of us plant a vegetable garden. This session will provide practical advice on the basics of tomato growing success\, including: \n\nChoosing tomato varieties\nPlanting guidelines\nCaring for tomato plants\nDealing with tomato diseases and pests\nHarvesting and storing tomatoes.\n\nSpace is limited. Registration opens April 11 and closes at 5 p.m. June 20\, 2025\, or when the class is full. Garden Basics is a partnership with the Bread and Roses ministry at Trinity Episcopal Church in Charlottesville.
URL:https://www.piedmontmastergardeners.org/event/garden-basics-growing-tomatoes-with-confidence/
LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Church\, 1118 Preston Avenue\, Charlottesville\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garden Basics
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