UVM Extension Cultivating Healthy Communities

Extension Master Gardener

UVM Extension Consumer & Community Horticulture Programs

The UVM Extension Master Gardener program cultivates gardening communities through volunteer education and demonstration. Our volunteers work throughout the state to promote successful, safe, and environmentally prudent, research-based consumer horticulture practices.

Our volunteers are leaders who partner with local community groups to create access to plants and green space for health and wellbeing, to grow and distribute local food, to create resilient landscapes, to promote invasive species management, to educate on ways to help wildlife/pollinators, and to teach their communities how to compost and maintain healthy soil ecology.

COVID-19 UPDATE: June 1: All in-person outdoor and indoor volunteer activity has been suspended until June 15, and this may extend further depending on University policy. Volunteer hosted classes may not yet resume in-person even if outside. Remote volunteering is allowed and encouraged at this time.
If you must continue to work independently on critical food growing and public space projects please make sure you are using the appropriate hygiene, wearing masks, and maintaining a six-foot distance from others.

The 2020 volunteer hours requirement has been relaxed. All active 2020 volunteers will remain active in 2021. All 2019 and 2020 interns will be granted 3 years to meet their initial certification requirements.

More info under, "Gardening During COVID-19."