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2012 Native Plant Symposium

The Chattanooga Native Plant & Wildflower Group of the Master Gardeners of Hamilton County is proud to present its first annual native plant symposium “Chattanooga’s Native Beauty: Gardening with Native Plants” on Saturday, March 10, 2012.  The symposium will be held at Chattanooga State Community College campus in its Humanities Theatre.  The program will begin [...]

MGHC Wins 2011 Search For Excellence Award

The Hamilton County Master Gardeners won the coveted 2011 Tennessee Master Gardener Search for Excellence Award in the Demonstration Garden category for the Evelyn Davenport Navarre Teaching Garden at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank.

The Evelyn Davenport Navarre (EDN) Teaching Garden, located at 2009 Curtain Pole Road, Chattanooga, TN 37406 is an approved U. T. Demonstration [...]

2012 MG Training Schedule

New Master Gardener training starts this January, with either Monday night sessions (starting January 9, 2012) that go from 6 pm to 9 pm or Tuesday morning sessions (starting January 10, 2012) that run from 9 am to noon.  The classes run for 15 weeks, ending with graduation on April 19.

The Master Gardener of Hamilton [...]

CAFB Garden Shed Workday

Title: CAFB Garden Shed Workday
Location: CAFB Evelyn Davenport Navarre Teaching Garden and Pavilion
Description: Please join us for a workday at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank Demonstration Garden on Saturday December 10, 2011 @ 9:00 am. We will be adding 2 living walls and an 8′ x 16′ living roof addition to the 8′x 8′ shed [...]

Gardening with Useful Native Plants Presentation

The Southern Appalachian region is, next to Southern China, the most botanically rich region on earth. Most of the plants growing around us have been used as food and medicine for hundreds or thousands of years. Some of our native plants risk being overharvested because the global demand for them exceeds the supply. Join Holli [...]

MGHC Holiday Party

Title: MGHC Holiday Party
Location: EPB 7th Floor Auditorium
Description: It’s that time of year again and our Holiday Party will be held on Thursday, December 8th at 6:30pm in the 7th floor auditorium of the EPB (Electric Power Board) Building. There is free parking in the attached Republic garage.

Please contact Lisa Clark by email or at [...]

The Chattanooga Native Plant and Wildflower Group

Title: The Chattanooga Native Plant and Wildflower Group
Location: Green|Spaces
Description: The next meeting of the Chattanooga Native Plant & Wildflower Group will be Monday, November 7th at 6:00 p.m. at Green|Spaces, 63 East Main Street.

At the meeting, we will be screening of the movie “Green Fire.”

The first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary environmentalist [...]

MGHC Class of 2012

The application process for the Master Gardener of Hamilton County Class of 2012 is now open.  There will be a choice of evening or morning classes, with the evening classes meeting from 6 pm to 9 pm Monday nights starting January 9, 2011 or morning classes the meet from 9 am to noon on Tuesdays [...]

2012 Officers and Directors Nominations

The  nominating committee wishes to present the 2011 slate of nominees to the Master Gardener at this October members meeting of October 20th, 2011.

The election of officers will then be held at the next regular meeting on November 17th, 2011.  At that time, if there are others who might be interested in holding an elected [...]

County Fair Build Day

Title: County Fair Build Day
Location: 1373 Osage Drive, Soddy Daisy, TN 37379  GPS:  35.28134,-85.13332
Description:

Now, it’s time to start working on our Hamilton County Fair exhibit which we will put in place at Chester Frost County Park beginning on Thursday, September, 22nd.

This year, our exhibit theme will be “Backyard Retreats.” Many of us have gotten [...]