Bring One - Take One! Join us for our annual Plant Swap! Bring plants in containers labeled with plant name, care instructions, and growing conditions. Plants should be pest/disease free and have a good root system.
Learn simple steps to create a colorful pollinator-friendly landscape around your home. Learn about pollination and its importance, the many different pollinators, and the colors that attract pollinators.
This food preservation series is intended to provide a hands-on learning experience for beginners and advanced canners. Each workshop begins with a class lecture then participants go into the kitchen to make their own canned produce to take home. Fee includes instruction, recipe, and all the equipment and produce to process your own preserved jar.
Drying Herbs & Fruits - May 11; Canning Pickled Peppers - August 17; Canning Cranberry Orange Chutney - November 16
Register for 1, 2 or all 3!
Attend an event about Accessible Public Spaces and Gardens with Michelle Nelson, Wen Huang, and Chin-Fang Chen from the Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning.
This carefully curated schedule of events is solely dedicated to topics related to sustainability and the role of agriculture in environmental, social, and economic issues, with a heavy emphasis on the food we consume in our everyday lives. The series is part of our strategic initiative, Establish a Healthy Food System and Ensure Global Food and Nutritional Security. This year's theme is Mental and Physical Health.
Attend the next installment of MomentUMD Live: AGNR Conversations Around Grand Challenges, featuring Gene Kelly, Professor of Pedology and Director of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station. Dr. Kelly is leading a national effort to set priorities for the USDA's climate change research over the next decade.
Registration is open for this event taking place on Tuesday, April 16 from 10am - noon in the Atrium of Stamp.
The evening aims to welcome you into the AGNR community and answer any questions you may have about becoming a Terp or deciding your future path.
Tickets are free for students admitted to the University and up to two guests (additional tickets available for $10). We will be providing food, beverages, and a special Terp-sundae!
The event takes place on Thursday, April 11, 2024 from 6:00-8:00 pm (doors open at 5:30 pm) at Rocky Point Creamery, owned and operated our very own alumni.
It's the Year of Heirloom Tomatoes. Join us to learn about this fantastic fruit!
Learn:
Participants will receive a free Heirloom seedling!!!
Join Robin Way of Rumbleway Farm for an educational experience and demonstration of proper food handling.
Learn:
The delightful hum of lawnmowers is right around the corner. Soon we’ll be tackling all of those outdoor tasks that have been calling our names during the cold winter months. As we transition into warmer days, our 2024 summer “Ask A Master Gardener Plant Clinics” will be traveling around the county to various events and open houses. This is a great opportunity to have Master Gardeners help with all your questions about gardening, from garden pests, to plant problems, to selecting the perfect native plants, and beneficial insects. Master Gardeners will be on hand to give tips and tricks to make your home garden flourish, help troubleshoot tricky growing situations, and offer encouragement on creating the perfect garden for your space. These events are free and open to the public.
Dates/Topics:
Saturday, May 4, 2024 Topic: “Bay-Wise” Gardening
Place: Greenwood Creek Nursery (201 Bennett Point Road Queenstown, MD 21658)
Time: From 10 am to 2 pm
Saturday, June 1, 2024 Topic: “Pollinators”
Place: A Little Farm & Nursery (100 Davidson Drive Stevensville, MD 21666)
Time: From 9 am to noon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 Topic: National Pollinator Week
Place: Lowe’s Bayshore Nursery (703 Love Point Road Stevensville, MD 21666)
Time: From 9 am to noon
For further information please call or make reasonable accommodations to participate in these events email the University of Maryland Extension Queen Anne’s County, Senior Agent Associate for Horticulture and Master Gardener Coordinator, Rachel J. Rhodes, at 410-758-0166 or rjrhodes@umd.edu at least two weeks before the events or see us on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/QueenAnnesCountyMasterGardeners
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Join Bradley Hills Village members at the Connie Morella Library in Bethesda where Florence Williams will lead us through an investigation into the restorative benefits of nature. She'll draw on cutting-edge research and her explorations to examine the relationship between nature and human cognition, mood and creativity. Williams in a journalist, author and podcaster. The Nature Fix was an Audible bestseller and was named a top summer read by J.P. Morgan. She is a contributing editor of Outside Magazine and a free lance writer for the New York Times and other publications. A Fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and a visiting scholar at George Washington Univeristy, her work focuses on environment, health and science.
