CCE: Be a Lifelong Learner & Volunteer! Apply by Nov. 21, 2025
Cornell Cooperative Extension Offers an opportunity to become a life-long learner, a volunteer, and a force in your community! Applications are due November 21, 2025
If you love gardening and are ready to expand your knowledge? Here is your opportunity to become a life-long learner, a volunteer, and a force in your community! Cornell Cooperative Extension of Saratoga County welcomes you to apply for 2026!
The Master Gardener Program is an integral component of our county’s outreach program in educating home gardeners, youth in after-school programs, individuals with physical and/or developmental disabilities, community gardeners and consumers of horticultural products. The Master Gardener Program is designed to train volunteers to work with the public to provide researched based education and outreach. Master Gardeners are required to volunteer 50 hours after their first year, then 30 hours to maintain their active status in the program.
Topics of discussion will range from ornamental and landscape plants, turf management, vegetable gardening, organic gardening to basic entomology, weeds, diseases. Applications are due by November 21st but space is limited. The course will be two evenings a week from 5pm-8:00pm from mid-January through May in 2026.
For more information or to apply, please contact our Community Horticulture & General Agriculture Manager, Jessica Luse at jmh452@cornell.edu or call our offices at 518-885-8995! or CLICK HERE for our website
We look forward to meeting you!
