This page is geared towards our current master gardener volunteers (MGVs). Here you can find professional development resources and navigation to other parts of our website that may be useful to you:
Professional Development Resources
- Horticulture Update Newsletter
- Monthly Sustainable Landscapes Lunch & Learn Series
- Past MGV Webinars
- Garden-Based Learning Library
Helpful Pages on our Website
- State program volunteer opportunities- Adult Programs
- Youth activities- Youth Lessons
- Garden Guidance
Professional Development Resources
Horticulture Update Newsletter
- Please visit this page to sign up for our newsletter and see all past issues of the Horticulture Update (Horticulture Update Archives)
Sustainable Landscapes Lunch & Learn Series – 2025
Quarterly, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, to register as a CCE educator or volunteer click links below:
- March 19th, 12:00 – 1:30 pm: Spring Ecological Gardening Practices – Register Here
- June 25th, 12:00 – 1:30 pm: Summer Ecological Gardening Practices – Register Here
- September 17th, 12:00 – 1:30 pm: Fall Ecological Gardening Practices – Register Here
- December 17th, 12:00 – 1:30 pm: Winter Ecological Gardening Practices – Register Here
Past MGV Webinars
Food Forest Trial Garden Webinars:
Seed to Supper Webinars:
- Seed to Supper Workshops: Partnership Development 101
- Seed to Supper: Collective Impact Annual Meeting (August 2022)
- Beginning Vegetable Gardening Skills for Seed to Supper – Part 1
- Beginning Vegetable Gardening Skills for Seed to Supper – Part 2
- Orientation to Seed to Supper
- Seed to Supper – Annual Program Celebration, Evaluation Results & What's Next
- Getting Started with Seed to Supper – Collective Impact Evaluation Results
- Getting Started with Seed to Supper – Beginning Hands-On Gardening Activity Guides
- Getting Started with Seed to Supper – Equity for Garden-Based Learning
- Getting Started with Seed to Supper – Partnership Development
- Getting Started with Seed to Supper – Telling our Stories – Evaluation
- Recruitment and Retention 101
- Grant Writing 101
- Hands-On Activities for Beginning Gardeners 101
Vegetable Varieties Trial Garden Webinars:
Sustainable Landscapes Lunch and Learn Webinars:
- Seed Starting 101
- Vegetable Varieties for New York Gardeners Catalog
- Planning Your School and Community Garden Course
- Horticulture Website Updates – SOIL3 & Sustainable Landscapes Cloned Websites Project
- Increasing Access to Nature for Community Wellbeing
- Playful Plants
- Rock Dust Benefits for Soil and Climate
- Climate Resiliency for Community Horticulture for New York State
- Project S.O.W (Seeds of Wonder): Food Gardening with Justice in Mind
- Bee Lawns
- Blocks in Bloom Program
- Addressing Pesticide Options as a Master Gardener Volunteer
- Beginning Vegetable Gardening Skills for Seed to Supper – Part 1
- Beginning Vegetable Gardening Skills for Seed to Supper – Part 2
- Garden Like a Forest: Urban Forests & Environmental Justice
- Garden Like a Forest: Growing Fruit in the Garden Landscape
- Garden Like a Forest: Backyard Mushroom Cultivation
- Working with Nature: Native Plants for New York Shorelines
- Gypsy Moth Webinar
- Sustainable Lawns for Spring
- The Tick Blitz Project
- Gardening in a Warming World: Youth Grow!
- Climate & Water-Wise Plant Selection
- Rain Gardens – A How-To for Homeowners
- Biocontrol
- Community Food Systems Best Practices
- Safe, Sustainable Plant Sales Online!
- Web Soil Survey 101
- Permaculture Design 101: Polycultures to Agroforestry Practices
- Growing Unusual Fruits
- Getting the Most out of your 'H' Soil Test Report
- Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities: Resources and Best Practices for Healthy Gardening
- SOI3L: Online Information, Investigation and Innovation Laboratory
Ag In-Service Recorded Presentations:
- Climate Adaptation & Ecological Gardening Techniques
- Cultivating Belonging in the Master Gardener Program
- Horticulture Diagnostic Updates
- Invasive Species to Know – Threats to Food and Forests
- Growing the Next Generation of Gardeners
- The Cornell Turf Team: Lawn & Water Quality Initiatives
- Climate Change & Sustainable Landscapes Education Projects
- Using Soil Test Results to Develop Sound Fertilizer Programs
- Steady & Focused: Efforts to Promote Racial Justice in Oregon's Master Gardener Program
Other Horticulture-Related Presentations of Interest:
Master Gardener Volunteer Management Topics:
- Exploring Qualtrics Features
- Master Gardener Volunteers Minimum Program Guidelines
- Tour of the New Cornell Garden-Based Learning Website
- Inclusive Recruitment of Volunteers – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the MGV Program
- Volunteer Panel Discussion: Volunteer Leadership Roles Around the State
- Volunteer Management Resources from CGBL
- Local and Statewide Plans of Work
- Best Practices for Hybrid Training using the Cornell Garden-Based Learning Library
- Using the Program Advisory Committee Handbook
Garden-Based Learning Library
When you become an Extension Master Gardener Volunteer, your training will include research-based resources and content from Cornell University in a curriculum that was recently updated in 2019. The outline of that Core Preparation is outlined below: