The Piedmont Master Gardeners Association
460 Stagecoach Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902-6441 434/872-4580 Fax: 434/872-4578
PMG Calendar: Events Close to Home
Ongoing: Albemarle County Cooperative Extension Office Master Gardener Course. For information about schedules and applications, contact Lottie Dudley or Cathy Betts at 434/872-4580. Click here for an overview of the course.
Albemarle County Fair, July 29 to August 3, 2008. Come on out and enjoy one of the summer's best community events!! For details and a schedule, check out the Fair website.
Charlottesville Farmers Market opened on April 5. Water Street parking lot, downtown Charlottesville. Drop by our Help Desk!!
Charlottesville Garden Club maintains a calendar of local gardening events throughout the year.
Crozet Farmers Market opened May 10. Visit PMG's Help Desk at the market!
Heritage Harvest Festival at Tufton Farm, September 6, 2008. 2nd annual festival on the grounds of one of Thomas Jefferson's five working farms. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY for MGs. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, questions can be directed to Ira Wallace of Southern Exposure (ira@southernexposure.com). PMG volunteers will be participating in the festival.
Ivy Creek Foundation offers guide-led tours throughout the year at the Ivy Creek Natural Area on Hydraulic Road and the Ragged Mountain Natural Area off of Fontaine Avenue, Charlottesville. Workshops, native plant sales, lectures, special after-dark activities.
Meade Park Farmers Market (Wednesdays) opened May 28. Meade Park, Charlottesville.
Monticello offers “Saturdays in the Garden,” a special series of seasonal workshops and tours year round. Workshops throughout the year include planting vineyards, grafting apples, pruning and propagating historic roses, vegetable gardens, and painting and sketching in the garden. Lectures will focus on food traditions, Thomas Jefferson as a gardener, and more. Bird walks, wildflower walks. Also at Monticello: Historic Landscape Institute, held this year from June 15 to 27, 2008. (See also Tufton Farms)
Piedmont Virginia Community College offers several horticulture-related classes each semester. Check the calendar on the school's website for credit and non-credit courses in landscaping, pruning, organice gardening, viticulture and more.
Rivanna Master Naturalists program maintains a local calendar of events for the greater Charlottesville area. New website launched in September 2007.
Rivanna Trails Foundation oversees creation and maintenance of more than 20 miles of walking trails around the city of Charlottesville. Regular maintenance and trailing-building sessions are held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, second Saturdays. See website for details. Call ahead to volunteer and confirm trailwork location.
Scottsville Farmers Market: currently in planning stages.
"Through the Garden Gate" tours: A series of monthly tours of private informal gardens in the greater Charlottesville area. Dates for 2008: April 12, May 10, June 14, July 12, (no August tour), and September 13. 9:00 a.m. to noon. Cost: $5 per person.
>>> April 12, 2008: Jay Y. Gillenwater, Grand View, 648 Dry Bridge Road, Charlottesville. Click here for description and directions.
>>> May 10, 2008: Barbara and Rick Bowie, 3201 Shannon Drive, Keswick. Click here for description and directions.
>>> June 14, 2008: TWO gardens. Carolyn and Bill Achenbach, 3024 Mechum Banks Drive, Charlottesville AND Karen and Lem Lilleleht, 2984 Mechum Banks Drive, Charlottesville, VA. Click here for description and directions.
>>> July 12, 2008: Lew Weber, 2186 Woodburn Road, Charlottesville. Click here for description and directions.
>>> September 13, 2008: Ted Peters, 108 Warren Lane, Charlottesville. Click here for description and directions.
Tufton Farm, on the outskirts of Charlottesville, is the home of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants and a working farm affiliated with Monticello. The farm hosts open houses, workshops, the Heritage Harvest Festival and a biennial Historic Plants Symposium. This year's symposium, "Fruits, Roots and Leaves: Revolutionary Gardeners and Heritage Harvests," will be held on Friday, September 5, 2008. The Heritage Harvest Festival will take place the next day. For details about both the Festival and Symposium, check out the Monticello website.
University of Virginia's School of Continuing & Professional Studies offers several non-credit personal enrichment courses in the area of "Landscape & Gardening" each semester. Click on link above to visit the SCPS website.
Vintage Virginia Apples (North Garden, VA). Specialists in heirloom fruits. Workshops in grafting and cultivation. Annual summer and fall festivals at Rural Ridge Farm, south of Charlottesville. Workshops for 2008 can be found on the farm's website. Fall Festival will be held Saturday, November 1, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more info, click on link at beginning of entry.
Virginia's Historic Garden Week. Check in January 2009 for details of next year's Garden Week.
Virginia Native Plant Society (Jefferson Chapter) sponsors field trips and an annual plant sale (at Ivy Creek Natural Area in the spring). The VNPS online calendar covers events statewide. See also the entry for Ivy Creek, above. Native plant sale in the spring.
Wintergreen Nature Foundation (Wintergreen Resort) offers workshops, hikes and special events, including a Field Studies Institute and a Nature Camp. For offerings, check calendar on Wintergreen's website. 
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