Mark your calendar for Tuesday, November 28, 2023! Giving Tuesday is an opportunity for you to make a donation to a program that has made a difference in your life.

We invite you to support us in our quest to promote healthier gardens, people, and more sustainable landscapes.

Here are some photos of our UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners in action helping make Stanislaus County a better place.

Preparing to answer a phone call at the Help Desk.

               

Master Gardener talking about worm life cycle.

 

HAPPY GIVING TUESDAY! 

Here at the Ag Center in Modesto, we are dreaming about next steps for our Pollinator Garden/Outdoor Classroom. You can see in this photo that native plants in bloom are quite beautiful.

Please help the UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardener Program reach our goal of raising $5,000 to help fund a pathway and sign for the garden. Today, November 29, 2022 on Giving Tuesday* is a great time to make a contribution, which will be directly reflected in our garden, which you can visit at anytime! 

Right now, the garden doesn't look like much. It was just planted this past week, and the drip irrigation was installed. Native plants such as Cleveland sage, coyote bush, penstemon, and ceanothus are just "babies." By this time next year, they will have grown in size and be flowering! We hope to see visiting hummingbirds, bees, moths, butterflies, bumblebees, and YOU!

How to Give 

Visit the UC ANR website https://donate.ucanr.edu/ and click on the Master Gardener icon. Then, from the drop down menu labeled “Choose a County,” select “Stanislaus County” to make your desired donation. We are a 501 c3 organization, so your donation is tax deductible. Donors will receive a packet of narrowleaf milkweed seeds as a special “thank you!”

If you prefer to donate by check, please make it out to: UC Regents and send to:
UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardener Program
3800 Cornucopia Way, Ste A
Modesto, CA 95358

Thank you!
*sorry for any confusion, the last post said Nov 28 was giving Tuesday which is incorrect and has been changed.

Anne Schellman has been the UCCE Master Gardener Coordinator for Stanislaus County since 2018.

Greetings newsletter subscribers! Giving Tuesday is next week, Tuesday, November 28, 2022. It's an ideal time of year to support a local organization you care about. If we have answered a question for you, you've learned something new from us by attending a class, or you feel inspired by our work, we hope you'll consider donating to our program.

Currently, we are installing demonstration gardens to be used as outdoor classrooms that the public can visit anytime, and we need your help!

Pollinator Garden 

Our Pollinator Garden is in the installation stage, and we could not be more thrilled. Currently, the irrigation and native plants are going in. Our Master Gardener volunteers were hard at work leveling, raking, and planting just this week.

Thank you Local Donors!

A big “thank you” to the West Resource Conservation District that helped us prepare the garden site, and to our local North San Joaquin Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society https://nsj.cnps.org/ for purchasing and donating the native plants! Many of these species are unusual and not normally found in the landscape. Although newly planted, everyone is welcome to stop by and visit*.

Your Funds Help Make this Garden Happen

Help make this demonstration garden come to life! Funds will be used to purchase additional plants, tools, and educational signage. Our big funding goal is a decomposed granite walkway. This is a pricey item, which can cost several thousand dollars. The benefits are a pathway accessible to everyone that avoids runoff and allows good drainage.

How to Give

Visit this website https://donate.ucanr.edu/ and click on the Master Gardener icon. Then, from the drop down menu labeled “Choose a County,” select “Stanislaus County” to make your desired donation. We are a 501 c3 organization, so your donation is tax deductible. Also, donors will receive a packet of narrowleaf milkweed seeds as a special, “thank you!”

If you prefer to donate by check, please make it out to: UC Regents and send to:
UCC Stanislaus County Master Gardener Program
3800 Cornucopia Way, Ste A
Modesto, CA 95358

Thank you

We look forward to meeting you in the near future in our “outdoor classroom” aka Pollinator Garden for classes on pollinators, California native plants, and how you can support them in your backyard garden, patio, apartment, or classroom.

* Our gardens are located at the Ag Center complex on the corner of Crows Landing and Service Roads in Modesto at 3800 Cornucopia Way, 95358. The Pollinator Garden is on the east side of the Stanislaus building, while the Sensory Garden is on the west side.

Everyone has heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But have you heard of Giving Tuesday? This is a time when you can support our program, which offers its services at no cost, connecting concerned citizens and home gardeners to research and information directly from the University of California.

#GivingTuesday is a great way to help us be the most reliable source of high-quality, research-based gardening information in Stanislaus County. 

Next week, you will hear personally from some of our Master Gardeners about an upcoming project they are very excited about! Stay tuned for another blog post AND a fun video.

p.s. You don't have to wait to give; you can support us anytime by visiting the UCCE Stanislaus County Fund page at https://donate.ucanr.edu/?fund_id=1050 Choose “UCCE Master Gardeners” from the drop down list to make your donation online.

Or, send a check made out to UC Regents to:

UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardeners,
3800 Cornucopia Way, Ste A
Modesto, CA 95358