Welcome to the MGV project sanctioning page. Scroll down this page to find a list of
projects in which you can volunteer. Get your project sanctioned by downloading
our form here.

2012 SANCTIONED PROJECTS: To view list, click here.

SOME OF OUR PROJECTS INCLUDE:

Garden Discoveries
Garden Discoveries: an educational garden tour 2011 was held from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 18. Below are snapshots from the
event. Read more.


Above: A garden on Lawe Street in Appleton (Peter Kins photo)
Below: A butterfly crysalis hangs on the garage wall above a planter of
Gerbera Daisies at the home of Jim Beard. (Bridget Staley photo)

OCMGV  Memory Garden

In honor of the Outagamie County Master Gardeners who have passed, we developed the Memory Garden.  These Master Gardeners have an engraved stone in the garden. The Memory Garden is on the UW-Extension grounds at 3365 W. Brewster St., Appleton. We add plantings each year to make the garden a place for friends and family to sit and and meditate as they remember those who helped our efforts.  A small committee maintains the garden. We invite anyone who is interested in this noble cause to join us. Outagamie County Memory Garden Committee: Lynn Coffeen, Julie  Buchanan
and Deb  Neuman

The Marigold Mile: Check out the photos below and click here to find out how you can help.

 
            
  
Outagamie County Master Gardener Volunteers Cassie Geiger
(above) and Barb Boudry (below) pull out marigolds in fall.              

Community Gardens Partnership
In Memorium - Sally Jaeger-Altekruse:
We lost one of our most ardent and loyal Master Gardener Volunteers, Sally Jaeger-Altekruse. Sally was fiercely committed to the Community Gardens project and a wonderful memory tribute has been installed there. Barb Boudry drew up the design. Barb, Ruth Frey (Winnebago County MG) and Denise VanderZanden put it together. More plants will be added as time goes on. The photos below attest to the wonderful job they did, so please visit the project at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, 1478 Midway Road, Menasha. Thank you, ladies, for all your hard work and thoughtfulness!

Outagamie County Fair
Snapshots from the 2010 Outagamie County Fair in Seymour:

       

Gardner Dam Boy Scout Camp
The following photos of native plantings were taken by Michael Halron in front of Wausau Lodge:

Outdoor Global Classroom
Our ongoing Global Outdoor Classroom is a "kid-directed" program in conjunction with the Einstein Middle School garden project. This school year we prepared an area for a savanna. We planted grasses and wildflower seeds. Check out the photos below. The kids in the third photo are clearing the precut grass and raking the soil. 

  

Mosquito Hill Nature Center: To find out how you can help, click here.

Wind Ones Institute for Learning and Development
Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization.
Our mission is to promote environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities.
In addition to special volunteer opportunities, like manning the Wild Ones booth at the Restore on Earth Day and the working at the native plant sale, there are many ongoing volunteer opportunities:

• Weeding demonstration gardens
• Removing buckthorn
• Restoring woodland understory and overstory
• Installing birdhouses
• Recording bird and critter sightings
• Cataloging and arranging library materials

More info: www.for-wild.org/eco/center/index.html

CHIP Seminar
The purpose of this one-time educational project for the Coronary Health Improvement Project (CHIP) Alumni Group was to share information about the growth and use of culinary herbs. CHIP focuses on using foods as grown and minimizing added salt, so the class focused on the variety of herbs available for culinary use. The class also included a tour of the Gardens of the Fox Cities, which enabled those attending to identify the herbs we were discussing.

Organic Gardening Magazine Test Garden
This is one of 10 test gardens nationwide that reports on specific varieties of annual fruits, vegetables and flowers to Organic Gardening Magazine. The object of the testing is to trial the plants against standard varieties we grow and report back on the viability, growth, habits, disease resistance, weather tolerance and taste. Check out the photo below!

This test garden for Organic Gardening Magazine a baby zuke
in the right foreground, “golden” runner beans on the first trellis
and fairy winter squash growing around the second bean trellis
(there’s a potted geranium behind it on our seating area,
which is the red that appears to be on the trellis).