CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum in Wooster, home of 2,500-plus plant types spanning 110 acres, has extended the application deadline for its next Master Gardener Volunteers class to Friday, Jan. 26.
Master Gardener Volunteers (MGVs) receive extensive training by plant experts from Ohio State. Then they share what they learn by volunteering with gardening-related programs offered by county offices of Ohio State University Extension. MGVs commit to 50 hours of service within their first year of completing the class and 20 hours a year afterward.
OSU Extension, CFAES’s outreach arm, has MGV programs in most counties in Ohio.
The arboretum is part of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, located on CFAES’s Wooster campus.
The cost of the class is $150. It will meet 10 times, starting March 14 and ending May 16, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Applicants will be interviewed during the second and third weeks of February. The class is limited to 30 people.
Find details about the class and a link to an application form. (Photo: Secrest Arboretym’s Garden of Roses of Legend and Romance, CFAES.)