Ongoing Projects

MGCG aims to connect the community with research-based, unbiased horticultural information. MGCG plans and coordinates many of the educational activities and horticultural events around the Middle Georgia area including our popular annual Spring and Fall Plant Sales. Programs led and supported by Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers (MGEVs) include:

• Seed Libraries, located in public libraries in local counties

• The Native Plant Garden at Macon’s Museum of Arts and Sciences

• Hope Gardens, Robins Air Force Base

• The Gardens at Brookdale, Macon

• St. Isidore’s Garden, Warner Robins

• Hafley Park Teaching and Demonstration Garden, Perry

• Lanford Library Demonstration Container Garden, Macon

• The Junior Master Gardener Program in local schools

• Various Ask-a-Master-Gardener events throughout the year (see our Events page)

• My Garden, My Plate at several schools in Bibb County

MGEVs also offer educational support to a number of other community organizations and initiatives, including projects of the Fringed Campion Chapter of the Georgia Native Plant Society, Habitat for Humanity, Girl Scouts, and Macon Bibb County.

• The Native Plant Garden and Monarch Waystation, Amerson River Park, Macon

• Old Cemetery Native Plant Garden, Macon

• Native Plant Garden, Perry Library