CMGA General Info

Fall painted lady butterfly 2024.
Photo by Cindy Murray.

Welcome to the Coconino County Master Gardeners Association blog. The mission of the Master Gardener Program is to create a corps of well-informed volunteers, and to deliver quality horticultural education programs adapted to our regional high elevation environment. The purpose of the association is to provide support for those volunteers and Master Gardener graduates, continuing education, and opportunities to participate in community programs that increase the visibility and participation in the Master Gardener Program.
The Coconino Master Gardener Association (2009) began in 2009. This blog contains information on:
-How to become a member
-Volunteer and Education hours reporting
-Calendar of Events
-General gardening information articles
-Master Gardener Association Documents and forms
-References and Resources
-Interesting Websites and Blogs
-Old Gardening Etcetera columns
-Recipes
-Book Reviews
-How to contact Board or Committee Members
Meetings are held monthly on the 2nd Thursday from 600pm - 8;30pm. We meet at the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church at 1601 N. San Francisco. This includes continuing education and a business meeting.

Reporting Master Gardener Hours

All master gardener trainees and certified master gardeners need to report their hours.
Beginning in 2010 certified master gardeners need to have 6 Education hours and 12 Volunteer hours in order to maintain certification.The on line reporting system allows you to report Education or Volunteer hours. You can sign in to record hours in the right hand column under Recording Volunteer and Education Hours. Just click on the U. of A.
If you have any questions or concerns about the new reporting system, please contact Brenda Smith (A - M) or Sue Madden (N - Z). Their contacts are listed at the bottom of the blog under
Contacts.



Ideas for hours------
--Attend monthly meetings
--Work on an association committee
--Work at an informational booth for the Master Gardeners
--Be a speaker about gardening topics at a variety of venues

--Host a garden tour
--Work at a fundraising event (Plant Sale - Garden Tour).
--Work at a MG site (Olivia White Hospice, the Arboretum, Riordan Mansion, or school gardens (many others)). Check out the Assoc. Doc. & Forms under Volunteer Sites.
--Work in the Extension office
--Write an article for the newspaper column -Gardening Etcetera
-Volunteer with the Seed Library
Be creative! There are many ways to fulfill your hours. Just remember for volunteering it needs to be a non-profit endeavor or an approved for profit site.

Change in Contact Information

Have you moved or changed your e-mail address, but would still like to be contacted about high elevation gardening information from the Extension? The Coconino County Extension Master Gardener Program has a site that will let you change your information on-line.

Click here to change your contact information!

Event Calendar

Saturday, March 5, 2022

Forestdale Farms CSA

 

Produce Share 2022 

   


Sign up SOON to SECURE your share of locally grown produce
You can sign up here: https://squareup.com/store/forestdale-farm .

About the Produce Share:

This CSA is primarily greens (salad, cooking, microgreens, etc.) but will also consist of occasional root crops (beets, kohlrabi, potatoes, etc) and other seasonal crops (cucumbers, squash, etc). We offer a wide variety of greens for the share, focusing on different tastes, textures and nutritional value. All greens are grown organically and sustainably. Each share consists of a weekly pick up for 10 consecutive weeks--you pay $10 for approximately $15 worth of greens per week!

Cost: Cost: $100 per 10 weeks or $290 for the entire 30 weeks season

Dates of Produce Shares:
Early season share……………April 24th- July 2nd
Mid season share……………..July 3rd-September 10th
Late season share…………….September 11th – November 19th

Pick up:
Weekly at the Flagstaff Community Market on Sundays 8a-12p (when in season).  Or at Forestdale Farm, 455 Beech Drive (about 5 miles from downtown) Monday-Saturday at our self-serve CSA farmstand open during daylight hours.

How to sign up:
To sign up please visit https://squareup.com/store/forestdale-farm or send a check (reach out to us to coordinate this option.)

About our farm
Forestdale Farm is a small family farm rooted in Flagstaff, Arizona. We strive to provide our community with high quality produce that is organically, ecologically and sustainably grown. Growing in this space since 2012, we have become well acquainted with the challenging growing conditions and limited resources of an arid, high-altitude region and our farming practices reflect this. As stewards of the land, we value water conservation, biodiversity, healthy soil, and people!



Other 2022 CSA OFFERINGS BELOW

🤷‍♀️What is a CSA? A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) connects community members with farmers. This provides farmers with security in what they grow and provides residents access to high quality, fresh produce, garden starts, or eggs grown locally. For additional information and to secure your share please visit https://squareup.com/store/forestdale-farm  

🌱👩🌾 GardenShare Program (Garden Start CSA): Vegetable garden starts grown sustainably and organically for the Flagstaff gardening community. We will provide over 25 varieties of vegetable starts (40+ total plants per share) distributed from May-June. We are offering discounted GardenShares the remainder of this month in solidarity — what better way to promote health and resiliency than to grow your own food! Cost $120

🍅🥬🥒🌶🍠🥕Forestdale Farm’s ProduceShare. This CSA is primarily cut greens (Salad, cooking greens, and microgreens) but will also consist of other crops when in season (ex. peas, potatoes, beans, squash, tomatoes, etc). We offer a wide variety of greens for the share, focusing on different tastes, textures and nutritional value. All vegetables are grown organically and sustainably. Each share consists of a weekly pick up for 10 consecutive weeks--you pay $10 for approximately $15 worth of produce a week! Cost: $100 per 10 weeks or $290 for the entire 30 weeks season).

🥚🐓🥚 Forestdale Farm’s EggShare (Fresh chicken eggs CSA). Our birds have open access to water, shelter, sunshine and fresh air. Aside from foraging and having plenty of access to produce from the farm, these birds are fed certified organic feed. $90 for 15 dozen eggs. More details on our sign up page.

💚🙏💚FarmSharing Fund. Help connect Flagstaff families with limited incomes to locally grown produce or garden starts by contributing to our FarmSharing Fund! And support school gardens by donating to our School Garden Fund. Visit  https://squareup.com/store/forestdale-farm to donate or for additional information about signing up. Forestdale Farm will match any donations to the fund for the next two weeks!

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