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Master Gardener Training 2025

  • Monday, November 3, 2025, 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM

Do you love gardening and want to deepen your knowledge?

Here’s your opportunity to become a lifelong learner, a dedicated volunteer, and a positive force in your community!

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Saratoga County invites you to apply for the 2026 Master Gardener Volunteer Program.

This dynamic program is a vital part of our outreach efforts, providing research-based horticultural education to a wide range of audiences - including home gardeners, youth in after-school programs, individuals with physical and developmental disabilities, community gardeners, and consumer of horticultural products.

The Master Gardener Program trains volunteers to support public education and outreach. Participants are required to contribute 50 volunteer hours during their first year, and 30 hours annually thereafter to maintain active status.

Course topics include:

  • Ornamental and landscape plants
  • Turf management
  • Vegetable and organic gardening
  • Basic entomology
  • Weeds and plant diseases

    • Training will take place two evenings per week (5:00 pm - 8:00 pm), from mid-January through May 2026. Space is limited. Applications are due by November 21, 2025.

    To learn more or request an application, please contact:

    Jessica Luse

    Community Horticulture & General Agriculture Manager

    jmh452@cornell.edu | 518-885-8995

    Last updated October 14, 2025