New Workshops Committee

By MG Terri Valenti

MG Dara Ballow-Giffen conducts a workshop.
Photo: MG Robert Toborek

A new Workshops Committee will offer workshops much like those previously provided by Montgomery County Master Gardeners as part of Garden Discovery Day and by our Grow It Eat It Committee from 2011-2024. MG Mary Gallagher will schedule all workshops.

Workshops offer information on specific topics, accompanied by an activity that produces an item participants can take home and use. Over 30 vetted and approved workshops have been offered by MCMG in the past. Topics have included Planting Vegetables or Herbs in Pots, Planting Seeds (Microgreens, Salad Boxes, Natural Seed Stratification/Early Seed Starting), Plant Propagation, Vermicomposting, Mushroom Growing, Tea Garden-Making, Hands-on Designing Your Vegetable Garden, Tomato Grafting, Soil Testing, Hydroponics, and all the Discover Series children’s programs.

If you have a topic for a workshop you would like to give in the future, please contact MG Terri Valenti, Major Events Director, to discuss. If you know of groups who are looking for a workshop, please contact MCMG Coordinator Steve Dubik (sdubik@umd.edu), who will start the approval process. Questions can be sent to MGs Terri Valenti or Mary Gallagher; you can find their contact information in VMS.