Project Page Links
Killeen Municipal Court Community Garden Project | Youth Projects
McLane Children’s Hospital Project | AgriLife Extension Grounds and Discovery Gardens | Un-Included Club Project | St. Mary’s: Growing Healthy Communities
Holland ISD Green House & Garden | Move Classes at Olin E. Teague VA Medical Center | Lazy Days of Summer Event at Fort Hood | Body of Christ Community Clinic in Belton | VA Suicide Prevention Stand Down | Temple College Community Garden & Greenhouse Project
All Projects List
Killeen Municipal Court Community Garden Project
The Killeen Municipal Court Community Garden Project began in 2008. At that time, Municipal Court Judge Barbara Weaver needed more “inspirational” ways for students to work off court fines through community service… Read More about the garden or check out our weekly garden blog
Youth Projects
Our mission is to encourage and inspire children of all ages through gardening activities to create experience in their environment, to nurture nature, and journey through magical childhood memories they can carry and share as gifts throughout their lifetime… Read More
Summer 2019: Temple College Community Gardens and Greenhouse Project
Body of Christ Community Clinic in Belton
The Clinic, located on Holland Road in Belton, provides medical services for the underserved population in Belton and Salado. Read More
McLane Children’s Hospital Project
The Healing Garden at McLane Children’s Hospital is a project that has grown through the years. Originally BCMGA provided pots and potted plants to add color to an existing garden. BCMGA stepped up it’s involvement when it assisted the hospital with a complete redesign of the base garden in 2017… Read More
AgriLife Extension Office Grounds and Demonstration Gardens
The MG demonstration garden team members use the garden site as a teaching facility and ensure that volunteers are active in the maintenance of the site. The site is maintained in a manner that will provide the public with “how to” knowledge of good garden practices… Read More
MG Gena Winston works in the demonstration gardens on AgriLife Extension grounds.
Un-Included Club
The Un-included Club is a nonprofit organization that provides after-school and summer programming for at- risk kids in east Temple. Among other things, they focus on literacy, building math and science skills, urban agriculture and leadership… Read More
Salado Demonstration Gardens
St Mary’s: Growing Healthy Communities
At St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Temple, Texas, Mary Ann Everett has put together two Junior Master Gardener programs that are supported by the BCMGA. Learn, Grow, Eat, Go(LGEG): an integrated program combining academic achievement, nutrition, and exercise and Junior Master Gardener – Level 1 (JMG1):
This is a one year class. Read more about Junior Master Gardener programs.
Students planted a garden, harvested what they grew and then ate what they grew!
Temple Whistle Stop Park
The Whistle Stop Playground in downtown Temple was adopted by the Bell County Master Gardener Association in 2011 as part of the Adopt a Park Program which is sponsored by the City of Temple. Our duties include checking the equipment and structures for any damage or needed repair, collecting and deposing of any trash and report any needed repairs or concerns to the Temple Parks Department.
Community Outreach
- Ask a Master Gardener: Telephone Calls/Extension Office walk-ins/Emails/Home-Site Visits
- Home & Garden Show
- How to Start a New Vegetable Garden
- Keep Gatesville Beautiful
- Parrie Haynes Ranch
- Plant Sales – Spring & Fall
- Monthly Gardening Seminars
- Veteran’s Administration Hospital Grounds
- Water Harvesting, Rain Barrel Workshops
- YouTube Project
BCMGA Mission Statement
The Bell County Master Gardeners Association assists the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in providing high quality, relevant, research-based horticultural education and service to the residents of Bell County and the state of Texas through outreach, teaching, and demonstration projects. Read More
