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June 30th: Reserve your place at the Masters Conference

June 30th: Reserve your place at the Masters Conference

Reserve your place at the National Masters Conference 2012 at Ryton Gardens. We’re inviting volunteers from across the country to share top-tips for supporting communities to grow their own food and make lovely compost. View the Masters Conference flyer (links opens PDF) Read about the National Masters Conference 2011 NEW for North London Master Gardeners [...]

May: grow your own tips

May: grow your own tips

Crops are confused this month. We’ve had a mild winter, sunny March, and wet April so far. But May is the time for catching up with sowing seeds and planting out your favourite fruit and veg. Remember there’s still time to prepare quick growing harvest for your ‘Big Jubilee Lunch’ on the 3rd June 2012. [...]

May 19-20th: Seeking new Master Gardeners in north London!

May 19-20th: Seeking new Master Gardeners in north London!

** A few places left – don’t delay, apply today! ** We’re looking for experienced and passionate food growers in Islington, Camden, Hackney and Haringey to support their communities to have a go at growing their own food.  You might be growing fruit and vegetables in a garden, allotment, school or community group – but [...]

June 3rd: Champion your local Big Jubilee Lunch

June 3rd: Champion your local Big Jubilee Lunch

Garden Organic is inviting our network of North London Master Gardeners and local food growers to champion the Big Jubilee Lunch. As the UK’s leading organic growing charity, we use innovation and inspiration to get more people growing in the most sustainable way. This fourth annual Big Lunch, an initiative by the Eden Project, proudly [...]

Become a Local Leader with London 2012

Become a Local Leader with London 2012

Garden Organic is inviting Master Gardeners from Islington and neighbouring boroughs 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. We’re engaging 1,000 of our local Master Gardeners and Composters to celebrate the Games with their community. Some of our [...]

Master Gardeners' blog posts

Callaloo germinated!

Callaloo germinated!I sowed these about 3 weeks ago and they were stubbornly refusing to do anything in my unheated greenhouse. Fair enough – they are from warmer climes. So I brought them inside and just a couple of hours on a warm radiator and they did a flash mob germination! Thanks to Robbie the Rockstone (Master) [...]

Growing by email

Top MG tips for tempting seedlings

Events

May 19-20th: Seeking new Master Gardeners in north London!

May 19-20th: Seeking new Master Gardeners in north London!** A few places left – don’t delay, apply today! ** We’re looking for experienced and passionate food growers in Islington, Camden, Hackney and Haringey to support their communities to have a go at growing their own food.  You might be growing fruit and vegetables in a garden, allotment, school or community group – but [...]

May 19th & 20th: New Master Gardener Training weekend

May 26th: Chelsea Fringe 2012

News

May 19-20th: Seeking new Master Gardeners in north London!

May 19-20th: Seeking new Master Gardeners in north London!** A few places left – don’t delay, apply today! ** We’re looking for experienced and passionate food growers in Islington, Camden, Hackney and Haringey to support their communities to have a go at growing their own food.  You might be growing fruit and vegetables in a garden, allotment, school or community group – but [...]

Become a Local Leader with London 2012

Master Gardener facts and figures – nice work!

Case Studies

Pilot research hints at impact of Master Gardeners

Pilot research hints at impact of Master GardenersEarly reports from our pilot questionnaire are hinting at interesting results to come…. We wrote to a sample of our mentored household in August 2010 to trial our new questionnaires before launching this autumn. It’s part of our partnership with Coventry University to discover the health, environmental and social impact of the Master Gardener Programme. [...]

Celebrating school growing

Vicky Cunningham

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