86 new Master Gardeners are helping people grow food after five training weekends from March to May 2012.

There are now 400 active volunteers since Garden Organic begun the programme in April 2010.

There are Master Gardener networks in North London, South London, Norfolk and Warwickshire thanks to the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food Scheme and in Lincolnshire thanks to the NHS.

Click here to read about our future areas.

We’ve recorded an amazing 10,500 hours so far by Master Gardeners with 34,000 food growing conversations and 3,300 people regularly supported. Ongoing research by Coventry University indicates lasting behavioural change…

Please click here for more figures and here for case studies about households and communities.

Each volunteer has individual support from our locally-based co-ordinators – and there’s more to do! Watch out for announcements as the lively networks keep developing.

Please click through to local news stories:

New North London Master Gardeners	Come on in! Warwickshire volunteers
Say ‘Seeds’: big smiles from South London	New Norfolk Master Gardeners are no April fools
New spring recruits in Lincolnshire!	Visit our Flickr photo collection

Many thanks

Philip, Kate, Gabbie, Fiona, Rick, Susan
The Master Gardener Programme Team

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