New to Veggie Gardening? Planting a Victory Garden?
Master Gardeners Can Help! Contact us at info@msvmga.org
We’re ready to mentor new and seasoned gardeners. If necessary, we’ll find a virtual way to connect by phone, email, text … you name it! We’ll help you get started on your vegetable garden or answer any of your gardening questions. Contact us at info@msvmga.org
Garden questions? You might find your answers in You Asked Us, where we record many of the questions we are asked at our garden clinics, and our researched responses to them.
The Victoria Master Gardener Association (VMGA) is a volunteer organization whose members share a passion for gardening and the willingness to share this passion with the community. Our members live on southern Vancouver Island, including Greater Victoria, the Gulf Islands and up the Malahat to beyond Mill Bay. Contact Us: email info@msvmga.org.
Established in 2000, our mission is to provide our members with the most up-to-date information on reliable and environmentally responsible horticultural practices for our region. As volunteers, we share this knowledge, as well as our experience and love of gardening, with the public through a variety of community service activities.
- Local Garden Events: These are back post-Covid. Check the calendar or the event host's own website. See the list of garden clubs here, farmer's markets here, and other events here.
- Clinics: These were temporarily suspended, but we are back at garden events, ready for your questions. You can still reach us at info@msvmga.org with your gardening questions or to arrange for a virtual garden mentor.
- You Asked Us ... Researched responses to actual questions presented to Master Gardeners at their community clinics.
- Mixing it up Conference: Every two years in the midst of winter we host a full day gathering of garden enthusiasts and experts mixing together a range of gardening topics. Mixing It Up 2023 will take place January 21, 2023 at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney, BC.
- Community Projects: We put our motto of "We Grow Gardeners" into action throughout the community through programs for elementary and high school students, seniors, with the RBC Museum Herbarium, and with the Horticultural Centre of the Pacific.
Interested in becoming a Master Gardener? All our members have completed the Master Gardener Basic Training program in Victoria or are Master Gardeners trained elsewhere. Click here to learn about becoming a Master Gardener.
VMGA Partners
VMGA is a proud partner and supporter of the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific, a locally treasured garden and horticulture education centre.
Current VMGA MEMBERS please sign onto the Membership Services Website.
updated: February 18, 2019
