Three Sisters Garden
Welcome to the Three Sister Garden located on the Madera Community College site.
Three Sisters Demonstration Garden (behind Madera Community College Center)
30277 Avenue 12 Madera
Gates are open / Master Gardeners work on Tuesday or Thursday mornings.
Stop by and ask your gardening questions, learn about pest or weeds and enjoy strolling around this site. Master Gardener Trainings happen every year. If you are interested in becoming a Madera Master Gardener, stop by and learn what we do.
The Three Sisters Garden will have a new event this year! Save the date of APRIL 11, 2026.
Download the information below for more info at this time. We will have plants and iris for sale on that date.
The Three Sisters Garden is home to over 250 kinds of Iris.
Check in March, when the iris are in full bloom. We have an event to sell iris at that time. You can pick up your iris in July or August when we dig them up. In August we have an online iris sale. Visit with one of the Madera Master Gardeners who really knows about Iris.
We have two iris sales per year at the Three Sister Garden in Madera.
In April you can view the iris in bloom and pay for your favorite ones.
We dig the iris them up in Late June and then we fill the orders from April.
Depending on how many we have left, we have a online sales in July or August.
Support the Madera Master Gardeners by buying Iris!
Certified Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation
Wildlife Habitat: In October 2019, The Three Sisters Garden became a Certified Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation (Certification #236311)
Human activity has changed and eliminated habitat, locally, and on the
global scale, and birds, butterflies, and other wildlife are pushed into
ever-shrinking wilderness areas. Providing a sustainable habitat for
wildlife begins with plants. Creating a wildlife garden reverses some of
the human-caused habitat destruction that is hurting wildlife. Our wildlife
garden includes and what a Wildlife Habitat needs: Food (seeds, nectar,
fruit, pollen), Water, Cover, Places to raise young, and Sustainable
Practices. How one manages their garden can have an effect on the health of the soil, air, water, and habitat for native wildlife as well as the human
community. To learn more visit:
https://www.nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/Create
That is it for now, but we have more projects in the works!
More about the garden
The Three Sisters Demonstration Garden is a large project developed by University of California Cooperative Extension Madera County Master Gardener's program in collaboration with Madera Community College Center as a permanent resource for residents of Madera County.
Developments to date has been made possible by considerable community support.
All monies raised from the annual Madera County Master Gardener Glorious Garden Tour goes to support the demonstration garden.
Little Free Library
Madera Master Gardeners had been busy preparing their Three SistersDemonstration Garden for the 2020 spring Garden Tour. Since that did notcome to pass, here are couple of the highlights we had hoped to showcase.
Little Free Library: To give back to the Community and support education -after all our Garden is on college grounds, a Little Free Library (Charter
#99333) was added. The Library was hand built and installed by Jim.
Little Free Libraries are a global phenomenon. The small book exchanges
number 60,000 around the world in 80 countries — from Iceland to Tasmaniato Pakistan. Now, our Little Free Library will join the movement to share books, bring people together and create communities of readers. We had hoped to host a grand-opening party as part of the Garden Tour, so that might be in the plans for the 2021 Tour. To learn more, please visit
https://littlefreelibrary.org
Madera Community College Center, Madera CA
All produce that is grown at the Three Sister Garden is donated to the Madera College Food Pantry. In 2024-2025 year 384# of produce donated to the college Food Pantry.
(Parking on campus is available in 3 parking lots: Parking Lot A, Parking Lot B, and Parking Lot C. Daily parking lot passes are available for $1.00 from our parking lot kiosks.)
