Southeast & Coastal Alaska master gardener course

Fairbanks, Cooperative Extension

Master gardener training provides a broad horticultural background and includes the topics of botany, soils, vegetable production using organic and conventional techniques, integrated pest management, greenhouses, lawns, houseplants, trees/shrubs, flowers and invasive plants. This class is geared specifically for growing conditions in Southeast and coastal Alaska.

To become a master gardener, you must complete 40 hours of horticultural training and, in return, volunteer 40 hours of time. 

This course will have opportunities for both face-to-face, in-person activities (in Juneau) and online Zoom sessions, live and recorded.

Participants outside Juneau will attend sessions on Zoom and will be part of a "community hub" with master gardener liaisons to be "eyes on the ground" to help organize, host, arrange, and generally make good gardening happen in YOUR community! 

Classes and workshops will be held most Mondays from 6-8:30 p.m., Feb. 26 through May 13, plus two Saturdays, April 20 and May 11 from 9 a.m. to noon, at the Juneau District office, 712 W. 12th Street, Suite 1.

The class fee is $300 and includes an electronic version of the Alaska Master Gardener "Sustainable Gardening" manual, plus other class and workshop supplies. Class will be limited to a maximum of 45. Register online. 

Contact Darren Snyder at darren.snyder@alaska.edu if you have any questions.