Interested in gaining an in-depth understanding on a new or favorite topic? There are lots of on-going or mulitple day courses offered around DC, many of which are free! Check out the organizations below offering courses, with subjects ranging from youth development, beekeeping, landscape architecture, horticulture, advance composting, urban garden certificates, to name a few. (Please note for one-time or one day workshops information is available under the “Individual Workshops” category; workshops and courses are also often included on DUG’s Events Calendar.)
Bowie-Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association (Bumba)
Bowie-Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association (Bumba) helps to support be keeping in a variety of different programs including a short course.
Bowie-Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association (Bumba)
Bowie-Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association (Bumba) - Specific Information on Courses
Brainfood
Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment.
Centro Ashé
Centro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. It seeks to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and each other.
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC Master Gardeners (UDC)
DC Master Gardeners is a volunteer program affiliated with land-grant universities. Volunteers utilize research-based information to educate the public on best practices in horticulture and environmental stewardship. The program provides interested individuals with extensive training in topics such as plant pathology, entomology, urban soils, and plant propagation and pruning.
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Future Harvest CASA’s mission is to provide education, networking, and advocacy to help build a sustainable Chesapeake foodshed, where food flows from farm and fishery to table in ways that strengthen farming and the regional food economy; protect our land, water, and air; and provide healthy, nutritious food that sustains the region’s communities and cities.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
Courses which explore the basic principles of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants. Learn about botany, taxonomy, plant pathology, soils, gardening techniques, greenhouse growing/nursery production and equipment.
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
The Maryland Master Gardener Program, a volunteer education program taught and administered by University of Maryland Extension (UME), puts research-based knowledge and environmental power into the hands of people who want to create sustainable gardens and landscapes, and protect and improve natural resources.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
The Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) of Maryland supports beekeeping through a varitey of programs such as beekeeping classes for beginners every spring, mentor beekeepers and a monthly newsletter called The Honey Pot.
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association - Specific Information on Courses
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners are trained volunteers of the University of Maryland Extension, who are dedicated to helping the citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Montgomery County Master Gardeners - Specific Information on Courses
National Farmers Union
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Bowie-Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association (Bumba) helps to support be keeping in a variety of different programs including a short course.
Bowie-Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association (Bumba)
Bowie-Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association (Bumba) - Specific Information on Courses
Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment.
Centro Ashé
Centro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. It seeks to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and each other.
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC Master Gardeners (UDC)
DC Master Gardeners is a volunteer program affiliated with land-grant universities. Volunteers utilize research-based information to educate the public on best practices in horticulture and environmental stewardship. The program provides interested individuals with extensive training in topics such as plant pathology, entomology, urban soils, and plant propagation and pruning.
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Future Harvest CASA’s mission is to provide education, networking, and advocacy to help build a sustainable Chesapeake foodshed, where food flows from farm and fishery to table in ways that strengthen farming and the regional food economy; protect our land, water, and air; and provide healthy, nutritious food that sustains the region’s communities and cities.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
Courses which explore the basic principles of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants. Learn about botany, taxonomy, plant pathology, soils, gardening techniques, greenhouse growing/nursery production and equipment.
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
The Maryland Master Gardener Program, a volunteer education program taught and administered by University of Maryland Extension (UME), puts research-based knowledge and environmental power into the hands of people who want to create sustainable gardens and landscapes, and protect and improve natural resources.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
The Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) of Maryland supports beekeeping through a varitey of programs such as beekeeping classes for beginners every spring, mentor beekeepers and a monthly newsletter called The Honey Pot.
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association - Specific Information on Courses
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners are trained volunteers of the University of Maryland Extension, who are dedicated to helping the citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Montgomery County Master Gardeners - Specific Information on Courses
National Farmers Union
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Centro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. It seeks to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and each other.
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC Master Gardeners (UDC)
DC Master Gardeners is a volunteer program affiliated with land-grant universities. Volunteers utilize research-based information to educate the public on best practices in horticulture and environmental stewardship. The program provides interested individuals with extensive training in topics such as plant pathology, entomology, urban soils, and plant propagation and pruning.
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Future Harvest CASA’s mission is to provide education, networking, and advocacy to help build a sustainable Chesapeake foodshed, where food flows from farm and fishery to table in ways that strengthen farming and the regional food economy; protect our land, water, and air; and provide healthy, nutritious food that sustains the region’s communities and cities.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
Courses which explore the basic principles of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants. Learn about botany, taxonomy, plant pathology, soils, gardening techniques, greenhouse growing/nursery production and equipment.
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
The Maryland Master Gardener Program, a volunteer education program taught and administered by University of Maryland Extension (UME), puts research-based knowledge and environmental power into the hands of people who want to create sustainable gardens and landscapes, and protect and improve natural resources.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
The Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) of Maryland supports beekeeping through a varitey of programs such as beekeeping classes for beginners every spring, mentor beekeepers and a monthly newsletter called The Honey Pot.
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association - Specific Information on Courses
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners are trained volunteers of the University of Maryland Extension, who are dedicated to helping the citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Montgomery County Master Gardeners - Specific Information on Courses
National Farmers Union
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC Master Gardeners is a volunteer program affiliated with land-grant universities. Volunteers utilize research-based information to educate the public on best practices in horticulture and environmental stewardship. The program provides interested individuals with extensive training in topics such as plant pathology, entomology, urban soils, and plant propagation and pruning.
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Future Harvest CASA’s mission is to provide education, networking, and advocacy to help build a sustainable Chesapeake foodshed, where food flows from farm and fishery to table in ways that strengthen farming and the regional food economy; protect our land, water, and air; and provide healthy, nutritious food that sustains the region’s communities and cities.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
Courses which explore the basic principles of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants. Learn about botany, taxonomy, plant pathology, soils, gardening techniques, greenhouse growing/nursery production and equipment.
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
The Maryland Master Gardener Program, a volunteer education program taught and administered by University of Maryland Extension (UME), puts research-based knowledge and environmental power into the hands of people who want to create sustainable gardens and landscapes, and protect and improve natural resources.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
The Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) of Maryland supports beekeeping through a varitey of programs such as beekeeping classes for beginners every spring, mentor beekeepers and a monthly newsletter called The Honey Pot.
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association - Specific Information on Courses
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners are trained volunteers of the University of Maryland Extension, who are dedicated to helping the citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Montgomery County Master Gardeners - Specific Information on Courses
National Farmers Union
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Future Harvest CASA’s mission is to provide education, networking, and advocacy to help build a sustainable Chesapeake foodshed, where food flows from farm and fishery to table in ways that strengthen farming and the regional food economy; protect our land, water, and air; and provide healthy, nutritious food that sustains the region’s communities and cities.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
Courses which explore the basic principles of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants. Learn about botany, taxonomy, plant pathology, soils, gardening techniques, greenhouse growing/nursery production and equipment.
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
The Maryland Master Gardener Program, a volunteer education program taught and administered by University of Maryland Extension (UME), puts research-based knowledge and environmental power into the hands of people who want to create sustainable gardens and landscapes, and protect and improve natural resources.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
The Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) of Maryland supports beekeeping through a varitey of programs such as beekeeping classes for beginners every spring, mentor beekeepers and a monthly newsletter called The Honey Pot.
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association - Specific Information on Courses
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners are trained volunteers of the University of Maryland Extension, who are dedicated to helping the citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Montgomery County Master Gardeners - Specific Information on Courses
National Farmers Union
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Future Harvest CASA’s mission is to provide education, networking, and advocacy to help build a sustainable Chesapeake foodshed, where food flows from farm and fishery to table in ways that strengthen farming and the regional food economy; protect our land, water, and air; and provide healthy, nutritious food that sustains the region’s communities and cities.
Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA)
Courses which explore the basic principles of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants. Learn about botany, taxonomy, plant pathology, soils, gardening techniques, greenhouse growing/nursery production and equipment.
Graduate School USA Horticultural Classes
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
The Maryland Master Gardener Program, a volunteer education program taught and administered by University of Maryland Extension (UME), puts research-based knowledge and environmental power into the hands of people who want to create sustainable gardens and landscapes, and protect and improve natural resources.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
The Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) of Maryland supports beekeeping through a varitey of programs such as beekeeping classes for beginners every spring, mentor beekeepers and a monthly newsletter called The Honey Pot.
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association - Specific Information on Courses
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners are trained volunteers of the University of Maryland Extension, who are dedicated to helping the citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Montgomery County Master Gardeners - Specific Information on Courses
National Farmers Union
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
The Maryland Master Gardener Program, a volunteer education program taught and administered by University of Maryland Extension (UME), puts research-based knowledge and environmental power into the hands of people who want to create sustainable gardens and landscapes, and protect and improve natural resources.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
The Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) of Maryland supports beekeeping through a varitey of programs such as beekeeping classes for beginners every spring, mentor beekeepers and a monthly newsletter called The Honey Pot.
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association - Specific Information on Courses
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners are trained volunteers of the University of Maryland Extension, who are dedicated to helping the citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Montgomery County Master Gardeners - Specific Information on Courses
National Farmers Union
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
The Maryland Master Gardener Program, a volunteer education program taught and administered by University of Maryland Extension (UME), puts research-based knowledge and environmental power into the hands of people who want to create sustainable gardens and landscapes, and protect and improve natural resources.
Maryland Master Gardener Program
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
The Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) of Maryland supports beekeeping through a varitey of programs such as beekeeping classes for beginners every spring, mentor beekeepers and a monthly newsletter called The Honey Pot.
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association - Specific Information on Courses
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners are trained volunteers of the University of Maryland Extension, who are dedicated to helping the citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Montgomery County Master Gardeners - Specific Information on Courses
National Farmers Union
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
The Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) of Maryland supports beekeeping through a varitey of programs such as beekeeping classes for beginners every spring, mentor beekeepers and a monthly newsletter called The Honey Pot.
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association
Montgomery County Beekeepers Association - Specific Information on Courses
Master Gardeners are trained volunteers of the University of Maryland Extension, who are dedicated to helping the citizens of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Montgomery County Master Gardeners - Specific Information on Courses
National Farmers Union
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
NFU represents farmers and ranchers in all states, with organized chapters in 32 states. The key to the success and credibility of the organization has been Farmers Union’s grassroots structure in which policy positions are initiated locally. The policy process includes the presentation of resolutions by individuals, followed by possible adoption of the resolutions at the local, state and national levels. Members and staff of the Farmers Union advocate these policy positions nationwide.
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Courses
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
The Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium offers Practical Beekeeping for Beginners. The classes are intensive, meet once a week for approximately 2 months and are designed primarily to teach people who want to keep bees.
Northern Virginia Beekeeping Teaching Consortium
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Courses
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Grants and Education to Advance Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Welcome to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland. We offer comprehensive academic programs covering various topics in agriculture, environmental technology, food science, natural resources and much more. Centrally located in College Park, MD, AGNR has research centers and Extension offices throughout the state of Maryland.
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
UMD College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Specific Information on Courses
UMD Extension
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
University of Maryland Extension (UME) is a statewide, non-formal education system within the college of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
The Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA) is a 60-credit, two-year academic certificate program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The IAA provides students with the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to manage profitable agricultural enterprises, including golf courses, sports fields, landscaping companies, and farming operations.
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture
University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture - Specific Information on Courses
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
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