WABI reports on Master Gardener Volunteers’ weekly open house sessions
WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers (MGV) is offering weekly open house sessions 5:30–6:30 p.m. Tuesdays throughout the summer at Rogers Farm in Old Town. “Much of the farm is for research commodity crops that are important to the economics of Maine, but here we have a small pocket of demonstration garden where we’re demonstrating for home gardeners some best practices on growing both ornamental and edible crops,” said UMaine Extension horticulturist Kate Garland. The UMaine Extension Penobscot County MGV Demonstration Garden — which features 34 different theme gardens, including the new foodscaping garden — is open to the public during daylight hours. Garland said open house visitors can meet with the volunteers and ask what they can learn from their gardens.