This project has recently relocated and is located at the Museum located in Pelican Plaza at 813 Florida St in Mandeville. The STMGA maintains 2 raised container beds of flowers at the museum entrance and is working to add more!

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Project Chair:  Kren Reisch

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, and visiting the Center regularly to teach and educate youths and young adults.  It also teaches farm-to-table skills and teaches how the vegetables and herbs grown in the garden can be used in a culinary setting. 

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Project Chair:  Melanie Edwards

The Folsom Community Garden is located at the NW corner lot intersection of Broadway & June Streets in downtown Folsom. 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 2nd Sat of every month 3:00 p.m. at the Giddyup Coffee Shop!

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Project Chair:  Laura Steffee

The STMGA maintains several ornamental and educational gardens throughout the State Park. This includes the beautiful front entrance bed, Native pollinator Garden (N. Entrance), Native Wildlife Garden (S. Entrance), Native Coastal Plains Garden, Sugarcane Demo Garden (part of the Interpretive Ranger's History Tour), and Ranger Station. 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 Chair:  Kimberlee Burt

Twice a year, STMGA volunteers meet at Habitat Restore - St Tamm. West located at 1400 North Lane in Mandeville to educate and assist new homeowners with their gardens and landscapes! 

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Project Chairs:  Julie Deus and Andrea Massey

STMGA volunteers assist the Hammond Research Center located at 21549 Old Covington Hwy with gardens and tasks!

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Project Chair:  Donna Dicharry

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 Chairs:  Dave Maher and Barbara Moore

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 Chair: Kristin Weaver & Sandy Bezet

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

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Project Chair: Will Afton

STMGA volunteers maintain the Super Plants garden located in the front of the AgCenter at 1301 Florida Street in Covington.

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Project Chair:  Beth Presses

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Northlake Nature Center (NNC) is a jewel of western St. Tammany, located between Bayou Castine and Pelican Park. Although recent actions by the gas line company have ruined the butterfly garden at the entrance, there remain several hundred acres of several ecosystems with eight miles of trails. Removal of invasive exotics and planting native trees, shrubs, and flowers are ongoing activities.

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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 Chairs:  Ann Durel

Master Gardeners work with several schools in the Parish to establish Legacy Gardens and support Arbor Day activities.

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Marigny Elementary School – Project Chair:  Sue Maguire

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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Master Gardeners work with several schools in the Parish to establish Legacy Gardens and support Arbor Day activities.

 

​Woodlake Elementary School – Project Chair:  Kappy Goodwin

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

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 Chairs:  Paul and Susie Andres

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 Chairs:  Ruthanne Johnson & Sandra Blancher