Here you’ll find all the latest news from across the Master Gardener programme
16 May 2012

Please tell us your views and favourite seeds/products for the 2013 The Organic Gardening Catalogue. Planning is underway for the next edition of this popular catalogue and Garden Organic are delighted to invite Master Gardeners, mentored households and communities to have their say to help fellow growers next year. We love to have feedback from [...]
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01 May 2012

Garden Organic’s Ryton Gardens hosted London 2012’s ‘Local Leader’ West Midlands launch on the 3rd April 2012 with our Master Gardeners and Master Composters. Our volunteers joined fellow community champions who have signed up free as Local Leaders to help people and communities create their own Game celebrations. Top of the list is ‘Garden for [...]
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19 March 2012

Garden Organic’s Master Gardeners hosted three exciting days of food growing advice at the national ‘Edible Garden Show’. Over 13,000 visitors came to Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire at the UK’s only national event for grow your own fruit and vegetables and home produce. Warwickshire co-ordinator Kate Newman said: “It was really lively event! The Master [...]
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02 March 2012

Garden Organic is inviting our networks of volunteer Master Gardeners and Master Composters to become ‘Local Leaders’ for the Games. As the UK’s leading organic growing charity, we use innovation and inspiration to get more people growing in the most sustainable way. We’re engaging 1,000 of our local champions to celebrate the Games with their [...]
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24 February 2012

We’ve sent out 400 questionnaires this week to the Master Gardeners and the lovely people they mentor to grow their own food. We’re working with Coventry University to monitor and evaluate the health, social and environmental impacts of the programme. It’s very exciting with intriguing questions – and already intriguing findings from our autumn research. [...]
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