2005 - 2025
Celebrating 20 years in Blount County, Teaching, Connecting & Growing!
Become a Master Gardener!All volunteers are trained with 40 hours of horticultural classes and return 40 hours of volunteer service in Blount County. A Tennessee Extension Master Gardener horticultural textbook is provided as part of the class fee charged to attendees of these classes. Master Gardener Intern Training - What's it like?Twelve Interns completed in the BCMG General Training Course for 2025. The Interns completed the fourteen week program which included weekly instruction by UT professors on topics such as Intro to Botany, Soil Sciences and Water Management, Plant Pathology, Tennessee Vegetation and Flora and Landscape design. All students also completed indoctrination in the MG Program and Volunteer Guidelines. Interns enjoyed opportunities to begin that all important volunteer time by participating in plant digs, monitoring bluebird nests, and joining teams for many of the community projects that the Blount County Master Gardeners are involved in. As is standard with the MG Program in Tennessee, all Interns must complete the fourteen week coursework, perform 40 hours of volunteer activity and join a local Master Gardener's Association during their internship year to reach the Certified level. | 2026 Intern Class January 27 - April 28, 2026The 2026 Intern Class will be held in on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 until noon at the Blount County Extension Office beginning on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. click on link for class information and registration forms Questions? Contact John Wilson at jawilson@utk.edu or call 865-982-6430 ext. 5. Master Gardener General Training Class The Master Gardener program, conducted throughout the US and Canada, is a two part educational effort in which enthusiastic gardeners are provided intense horticulture training. In return they “pay back” local university extension agents through volunteerism. Blount County Master Gardeners' projects include a partnership with Habitat for Humanity, Project Hope a youth- and science-based program to teach middle school students STEM through gardening, an annual plant sale, the Shakespeare Garden at the Blount County Public Library, the Townsend River Walk, and the Maryville College Grove project, to name a few.
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