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• Demonstration Garden Worknight

  • Start
    8 May 2023
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    (CST)
  • End
    23 Oct 2023
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    (CST)
  • Schedule
    30 sessions
  • Location
    Demonstration Garden 3305 92nd Street Urbandale IA

  Come hangout at the garden and help maintain it! Early in the season planting and then general weeding, watering, and later in the season picking vegetables to donate to the food pantry. Don't have to be a Master Gardener to come help.

  Be sure to check in and let us know if you are new!

  
  

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• Enabling Garden Worknight

  • Start
    6 Jun 2023
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  • End
    31 Oct 2023
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  • Schedule
    20 sessions
  • Location
    1050 1st Ave. S; Altoona, IA 50009, behind the Altoona Hy-Vee

  Sheds are open by 4:00 and we work until we're done--but come when you can and leave when you must.

  At EG we invite our volunteers to sit down together for a free meal. It is provided by volunteers who had previously signed-up to bring parts of the meal. We ring the diner bell about 6:00 most nights (and yes, there's a bell installed on the gazebo"). We do not serve a meal on speaker nights. Volunteers need to bring their own beverage.

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• Discovery Garden Worknight

  • Start
    7 Jun 2023
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  • End
    1 Nov 2023
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  • Schedule
    20 sessions
  • Location
    Iowa State Fairgrounds, on the south side of the Agricultural Building. 1207 E Iowa St., Des Moines, IA 50317

  The gardens are all planted and mulched.   Wednesday night is work night. If you would like to join us work begins about 4 PM. There are always weeds to pull and beds to water.
  

  Are you new? Be sure to check in and let us know if you are here!

  
  

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• Fall Gardening Workshop - Interactive Lab

  • When
    21 Sep 2023
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    ISU Polk County Extension Office - 1625 Adventureland Dr. Altoona, IA
  • Spaces left
    2
  • Registered
    70 registrants

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  Fall Garden Basics Interactive Lab - 
  

  Come out to Altoona for a fun interactive event on various fall gardening tasks such as propagating coleus & begonia, overwintering cannas, dividing & transplanting perenials, bulb basics and other fall gardening tasks. 

  Counts for 2 hrs. of continuing ed for Master Gardeners. This event is open to the public. 

  
  

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• MG Booth Appearance - DSM Downtown Farmer's Market

  • When
    23 Sep 2023
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    7:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    3rd Street Downtown, South of Court Avenue

  Polk County Master Gardeners will be available to answer all your horticulture and gardenening questions at the Des Moines Downtown Farmers' Market, 7 a.m. to noon. Each month the MG's have information on various gardening topics and often have free seeds and other great resources! You can find them on 3^rd Street, south of Court Avenue. 
  

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• Franklin Library - Polinator Palooza

  • When
    23 Sep 2023
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    10:30 AM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    Franklin Ave Library & Community Gardens 5000 Franklin Ave.

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  Master Gardeners will have booth and will be presenting on Planting for Pollinators at Franklin Library & Franklin Community Garden's Pollinator Palooza Day. The day will have games, arts & crafts, educational booths, monarch tagging and more.

  
  

  
  

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• MG Harvest Celebration

  • When
    12 Oct 2023
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    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    ISU Extension Office - 1625 Adventureland Dr. Suite A Altoona, IA. 50009
  • Spaces left
    35

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  Join the Polk County Master Gardener's for an evening of learning and seasonal celebration. We will have ISU Commercial Crop Specialist, Dan Fillius, talk on cover crops followed by a harvest social where we share food and friendship.  

  Master Gardeners also use this time to make an official vote on New Advisory Council Representatives. 

  The evening fullfills 1 credit hour for continuing education for Master Gardeners in Polk County.

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• Volunteer Recognition System (VRS) Deep Dive - MG Training

  • When
    24 Oct 2023
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    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    1625 Adventureland Dr. Suite A.

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  This event is for Master Gardeners only and is not open to the public. 

  Feel puzzled by the VRS? Want to use the software more efficiently? Just need an overview of how to log hours? Richard Jacob, designer of the volunteer recognition system, will help volunteers better understand the system and it's uses for volunteers.

  Appropriate for all Polk County Master Gardeners!

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