The City Gardener Certificate program is an intensive 8-session horticulture and leadership training course for community garden volunteers. The next session of the City Gardener Certificate program will be January to March 2002. Classes are for people who want to increase their gardening knowledge, meet other community gardeners and provide volunteer service to community gardens. This intensive course covers topics such as pest and diseases, soil science, community garden management, and garden design. Our goal is to have a trained volunteer presence in every community garden in the City of Boston.
Participants live or garden in Boston and surrounding communities.
First preference is given to people who are community gardeners and who demonstrate experience volunteering in their neighborhood or community garden. Class size is approximately 30. There is no class tuition fee. Participants are expected to provide volunteer service to community gardens as part of the program. Volunteer activities vary, such as planning and running the Gardeners Gathering, the Garden Party Benefit for Community Gardens, Open Garden Day, Neighborhood Network meetings, lead gardening workshops in community gardens and being a mentor in a community garden.