The MGABC is an affiliation of local Chapters of Master Gardeners working together to support the delivery of quality education to their members and environmentally responsible gardening advice to the public.
We invite you to scroll through our website, ask gardening questions, check out your local Chapter and visit the Events, Community Projects and Advice Clinics we hold throughout the Province each year.
What do we do in our Communities?
Master Gardener volunteers are represented in six different regions of the Province. Their mandate is to provide quality, research and science based information to Home Gardeners in a variety of settings. They respond to questions from the public at garden centres across the Lower Mainland; on the Sunshine Coast; in Greater Victoria; on Vancouver Island; and the Gulf Islands; in the Okanagan; the Thompson/ Shuswap region and in Prince George. These activities are called Clinics or Outreach.
Other volunteer activities include:
- speaking to local community groups throughout the Province
- providing support to local botanical and/or display gardens
- participating in a variety of community horticultural projects
- working with students & teachers in local schools
- advising on and helping with “greening” projects in community parks & public spaces
- writing articles for local papers and garden club newsletters
- coordinating Seedy Saturday/Sunday initiatives or events
- helping families to learn how to grow; to nurture; and to harvest their own food
- Online gardening questions, check out the Ask a Master Gardener section of the MGABC website