Welcome

Comal Master Gardeners is a non-profit educational and charitable association working with the AgriLife Extension to improve gardening skills throughout the community. Program objectives are implemented through the training of local volunteers known as Master Gardeners. We collaborate with AgriLife Extension to conduct youth and community education, establish and maintain demonstration gardens, while providing a speakers bureau. We work with special audiences in the community (4-H horticultural clubs, Junior Master Gardener groups, schools, and others) for youth and community outreach of a horticultural nature. We recruit and educate new Master Gardener candidates for effective volunteering.

Community Question and Answer Telephone Duty

Comal Master Gardener Association needs two Comal Master Gardener volunteers to answer questions at the Comal County AgriLife Extension Office, 325 Resource Drive, New Braunfels, Texas
Volunteer dates and times are: Monday and Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Tuesday and Friday, 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekly. Anyone interested, please contact Marie at the Extension Office (atkinm@co.comal.tx.us) and let her know what days you would like to work. Please limit each shift to no more than TWO people - (the office is too small to accommodate more persons than this).askamastergardener@co.comal.tx.us

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Who are Texas Master Gardeners?

Texas Master Gardeners is a volunteer program designed to grow horticultural information throughout the state, town by town. To become a Texas Master Gardener, a participant attends 50 hours of instruction, conducted by the local Extension county agent, then shares this knowledge by donating 50 hours of volunteer service back to the community.

The touch of Texas Master Gardeners’ green thumbs can be found across the state -- in school garden projects, horticultural therapy projects, community gardens and demonstration gardens; by volunteers who also conduct gardening programs and answer gardening questions. Anything anyone wants to know about gardening, a Master Gardener can help. That includes young wannabe gardeners too – Master Gardeners help set up 4-H gardening clubs and Junior Master Gardener groups.

In fact, when it comes to green and growing things, Master Gardeners dig into their service in all kinds of ways: teaching, giving presentations, writing newsletters and articles, providing clerical help, and designing and maintaining Web pages.

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In 2010, there were 6,196 volunteers in the
Texas Master Gardeners, according to the
organization’s annual report.

That year Texas Master Gardeners gave
2,360 presentations for a combined audience
of 193,858 individuals in the community.

Volunteers contributed 494,997 hours to horticulture-based educational projects,
for a benefit to the state that was worth
$9.8 million.