Volunteer Master Gardeners are important for future food growing skills in the UK, according to expert speakers at Garden Organic’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday 22 May 2010. They praised the innovative model of training and supporting volunteers to act as food growing mentors to help local communities grow fruit and veg. There is [...]

Exciting! We’re now recruiting our first south London Master Gardeners for training on the 19 and 20 June (two-day course). We looking for enthusiastic people with some food growing experience and passion to help others have a go at growing their own. Our south London programme is across Wandsworth, Lambeth and Southwark. Visit website for [...]

We’re delighted that the south London Master Gardener programme has begun with co-ordinator Sarah Cannon now out and about locally. Sarah is recruiting our first volunteers for June training. We’re recruiting through the ‘street rep’ network of our local partners, Food Up Front and through local growing groups and initiatives (including via the local authority [...]

We’ve been in Norfolk this month preparing to launch the Master Gardener programme in August 2010. It’s very exciting. Project manager Philip Turvil met our new local partners Hannah and Robin from Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, part of Norfolk County Council. We followed a day of meetings with another day meeting locals at Gressenhall’s popular [...]

Garden Organic has trained their first ‘Master Gardeners’ to help people and communities grow their own food Islington Master Gardeners in training This exciting programme is Local Food (Big Lottery) funded with kind support from Sheepdrove Organic Farm and local authorities in four regions. The programme is based on the national success of the Master [...]