The STMGA maintains two raised container beds of flowers at the Children's Museum entrance and is working to add more!

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Project Location: Pelican Plaza, 813 Florida Street, Mandeville, La 70448

In this project, St Tammany Master Gardeners work throughout the seasons to educate FPJDC youth on gardening. The project includes building, planting, and maintaining raised bed gardens, as well as visiting the Center regularly to teach and educate youths and young adults.  The project also teaches farm-to-table skills and how the vegetables and herbs grown in the garden can be used in a culinary setting. 

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Project Location: Florida Parish Juvenile Detention Center, 28528 US-190, Covington, LA 70433

Volunteers meet every Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. with the focus to bring people of the local community together to share a common goal of growing produce for the benefit of the participants and those in need of assistance.  Planning meetings for interested participants are held the second Saturday of every month 3:00 p.m. at the Giddyup Coffee Shop!

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Project Location: Folsom Community Garden, NW corner lot at intersection Broadway and June Streets, Folsom, LA 70437

The STMGA maintains several ornamental and educational gardens throughout the State Park. These include Native pollinator Garden (N. Entrance), Native Wildlife Garden (S. Entrance), Native Coastal Plains Garden, and the Sugarcane Demo Garden (part of the Interpretive Ranger's History Tour). All of the native plant gardens are certified by the Louisiana Native Plant Society (LNPS) and received Gold Standard certification for all three!

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Project Location: Fountainebleau State Park, 62883 LA-1089, Mandeville, LA 70448

STMGA volunteers assist the Hammond Research Center with gardens and tasks!

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Project Location: Hammond Research Center, 21549 Old Covington Highway, Hammond, LA 70403

Master Gardeners maintain the garden by weeding, replanting, pruning, and cleaning the area. We sponsor the Wild Things Festival at the Lacombe Wildlife Refuge. At the festival four tables are set up under a tent and children are invited to do art projects related to butterflies and other pollinators. Information is provided on the plants needed in a garden to attract butterflies and the butterfly life cycle.

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Project Location: Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, 61389 LA-434, Lacombe, LA 70445

The Lang House Jardin Potager is part of the Historic Lang House Museum in Old Mandeville. This beautiful potager of herbs, flowers, fruits, and vegetables was designed and built by members of the St. Tammany Master Gardener class of 2017 as an inspiration for pleasure and healing to those who visit. This past year springtime edibles, medicinal and aromatic plants were added to the bed and over 40 native bushes, grasses, and small trees were planted on the Kierr Garden property adjacent to the Lang House!

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Project Location: Lang House Museum, 605 Carroll St, Mandeville, LA 70448

STMGA volunteers plant and maintain a Louisiana native plants butterfly garden at Pelican Park.

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Project Location: Pelican Park, 63350 Pelican Dr, Mandeville, LA 70448

STMGA volunteers maintain the Super Plants garden located in the front of the LSUAgCenter.

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Project Location: LSUAgCenter, 1301 N Florida St, Covington, LA 70433

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Northlake Nature Center (NNC) is a jewel of western St. Tammany, located between Bayou Castine and Pelican Park. There are several hundred acres of multiple ecosystems with eight miles of trails. Removal of invasive exotics and planting native trees, shrubs, and flowers are ongoing activities.

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Project Location: Northlake Nature Center, 23135 US-190, Mandeville, LA 70448

Complementing the Otis House (circa 1885) at Fairview-Riverview State Park in Madisonville this garden features more than 20 old garden roses and other perennials. STMGA volunteers maintain the garden and helps run programs such as rose propagation and speaking at the Otis House tours. 

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Project Location: Otis House at Fairview-Riverview State Park, 119 Fairview Dr, Madisonville, LA 70447

Master Gardeners work with several schools in the Parish to establish Legacy Gardens and support Arbor Day activities. STMGA volunteers work with pre-K through Grade 1 to plant and maintain raised bed gardens. Success crops include sweet potatoes. The garden is Native Plant Certified!

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Project Location: Marigny Elementary School, 1715 Viola St, Mandeville, LA 70448

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Master Gardeners work with several schools in the Parish to establish Legacy Gardens and support Arbor Day activities. ​Woodlake Elementary School Gardens - Approximately 400 Pre K - 3rd graders enrolled at Woodlake have the fun of learning about where their food comes from.  Master Gardeners help with several plantings per school year of vegetables and herbs to give them the opportunity to dig in, plant, and harvest what they grow.  We also like to give them a taste of their crops, that is, if the weather behaves and the critters don’t get to them first.

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Project Location: Woodlake Elementary School, 1620 Livingston St, Mandeville, LA 70448

This project is established at the Slidell Boys and Girls Club and meets every other week during the school year and over the summer break. This is an educational program established to teach club members how to be responsible gardeners, consumers, and citizens knowledgable of horticultural practices in accordance with LSU AgCenter policies. Lessons are provided on a wide range of gardening topics and includes hands-in-the-dirt activities!

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Project Location: Slidell Boys and Girls Club, 705 Dewey Ave, Slidell, LA 70458

STMGA volunteers maintain herb, native plant, and pollinator gardens. Volunteers host horticulture classes for the St. Tammany 4-H Homeschool Club. Volunteers also work with the Friends of the Library on the Parking Lot Enhancement Project.

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Project Location: Slidell Library, 555 Robert Blvd, Slidell, LA 70458