Over those many years, SWIMGA members created seven stations for the students: the Sensory Area, the Pollinator Lane, the Sunflower Reading Area, the Gazebo, the Staging Area, the Vegetable Garden…
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Join us at the MG Display Garden for a Soiling Testing Workshop on August 10 from 9-10 am
Vanderburgh Extension Educator Amanda Bradshaw Burks will be conducting this informative program. See you there!
Our SWIMGA Habitat team completed plantings at 13 homes this spring
Our Habitat team completed plantings at thirteen homes this spring. . Each workday, our volunteers landscape the front of two homes with shrubs, perennials, and trees in only two to…
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SWIMGA volunteers named Albion Fellows Bacon Center’s Volunteer Group of the Year for 2024!
Accepting the Award at the “Evening of Hope Gala” on April 19 were Rita Wedig, chair of the SWIMGA Youth Education and Diversity Committee and coordinator of the their Community…
Making a Difference in the Community
The SWIMGA Youth Education and Diversity Committee was very busy in 2023. We gave 14 education presentations at 4 locations, distributed 11 flats of plants, and worked at 2 community…
Glenn Black Historical Gardens project at Angel Mounds
SWIMGA is starting a new project this spring. In cooperation with Angel Mounds and the Three Sisters community garden group, we will be recreating the landscape of the Glenn Black…
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2023 Master Gardeners of the Year, Legacy Master Gardeners of the Year, and Project of the Year
Our 2023 Master Gardeners of the Year are Tod Bischoff, Cindy Kuester, and Jim Willem for almost daily visits and work at the Display Garden; serving as Plant Sale chair;…
SAVE THE DATE: Our 2024 Fall Garden Symposium will be on October 19, 2024 at Old National Bank Events Plaza
Speakers will include Mr. P. Allen Smith, television host and garden designer; Mr J Schwanke, host of “Life in Bloom” on PBS; and speakers from Walters Gardens (a Perennial nursery…
Kudos to our MG Vegetable Gardeners!
Kudos to the our MGDG Victory Vegetable Garden, Angel Mounds Three Sisters Garden, and the MGDG Welcome Home Garden for donating vegetables to fight hunger in the local community. We…
Meet Susan Cooper: Steward of SWIMGA’s Little Free Library
As the Little Free Library (LFL) steward at the Master Gardeners Display Garden, she checks in at least once a week to restock the unit. That can mean adding as…
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