Leveraging partnerships with groups that share the Master Gardeners commitment to supporting sustainable gardens makes us more effective and connects us with many more Baltimore residents.
Learn about some of our community partners below and through their linked websites.
Blue Water Baltimore is helping to restore the quality of Baltimore’s rivers, streams, and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities. Their Restoration Team focuses on tree plantings and green stormwater infrastructure such as rain gardens, impervious removal, and green development.
>UME BCMGs volunteers help plant and prune trees, and assist with other gardening and greening projects.
Part of the Baltimore City park system, Cylburn Arboretum is a 200-acre site comprising a tree collection; shrubs, perennials and annuals; and three and a half miles of woodland trails as well as a nature camp and educational events.
>UME BCMGs maintain a demonstration vegetable garden and rain garden on the grounds, hold events in the classroom and
Vollmer Center, and volunteer in the greenhouse and on the grounds.
TreeBaltimore is the umbrella organization for all City agencies, private organizations, and individuals in the effort to increase the tree canopy of Baltimore. It is a mayoral initiative led by the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks in partnership with Blue Water Baltimore, Baltimore Tree Trust, Flowering Tree Trail and many other tree minded groups and individuals.
>UME BCMGs primarily volunteer with two major initiatives, TreeKeepers and Weed Warriors.
Great Kids Farm is an urban farm dedicated to giving Baltimore City Public School students hands-on gardening opportunities. It is owned and operated by Baltimore City Public Schools Food & Nutrition Services and comprises 33 acres of forests, fields, as well as a stream, greenhouses, and barn animals.
>UME BCMG volunteers support the farm by providing education at community and student events.