What is the UT Master Gardener Program?

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The Tennessee Extension Master Gardener Program is an organized educational outreach program of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. Volunteers are trained and certified to serve the university as volunteer educators in noncommercial horticulture.

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The Tennessee Extension Master Gardener volunteer certification program is developed and managed by UT Extension, a division of the UT Institute of Agriculture (UTIA). To attain certification, volunteers must commit to a required amount of training in plant and soil sciences, horticultural crop production and allied soil science, entomology, and plant pathology fields. This training is concurrent with annual volunteer service hours. The activities of certified volunteers using the title “Tennessee Extension Master Gardener” are conducted as official university business.

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What is a Core Project?

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What does this mean for us?

• We have award-winning, trained UT Extension educators available to train our teachers to utilize the garden in their curriculum
   

• We will have educated, skilled volunteers, to help fulfill our outdoor classroom goals:
   

  • Creating more educational stations in the garden

  • Creating systems to guarantee the sustainability of the Learning Garden

  • Create assessments to quantify the success of the garden

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• Master Gardeners will run our Summer Family Garden Club program including:

  • Speaker Bureau informative talks for the adults

  • Educational garden activities for the kids

  • Volunteer available during work days to answer all your gardening questions​

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How can I become a Master Gardener?

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http://knoxcountymastergardener.org/a/index.php/how-to-become-a-master-gardener