The Grow It! Eat It! campaign is a joint venture between The Maryland Master Gardener program and the Home and Garden Information Center - to address the growing need of Marylanders to learn how to start and maintain successful food gardens. Master Gardeners achieve this goal through the following activities:
Spring is here and it’s the perfect time to start a home garden! With the current COVID-19 crisis we are all a bit stressed and could really use the therapeutic benefits and productivity of food gardening. Here are just few of the many benefits to growing your own food:
Below are resources for you to learn more and help you get started. Happy growing!
UME Home & Garden Information Center (HGIC) Webpage https://extension.umd.edu/hgic
UME MD Grows Blog https://marylandgrows.umd.edu/
HGIC YouTube Channel on Food Gardening https://www.youtube.com/user/UMDHGIC/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=2
Have Questions? Contact our MD Gardening Experts at https://extension.umd.edu/learn/ask-gardening
Members of the "Grow it! Eat it!" teams conduct presentations and talks addressing food gardening topics throughout the community. Current presentation topics and schedules may be found in Public Events. Power points or pdfs of presentations can be found in GIEI Howard County Presentations. To request a catalog containing current Howard County MG presentations and request a GIEI presentation, contact Caroline Feil at carol.feil@yahoo.com
At public events team members use displays to advocate food gardening and they avail themselves to discussions of food gardening.
An organic vegetable garden is maintained at the Howard County Conservancy as a demonstration garden.
The "Grow it! Eat it!" web site has numerous resources to assist the interested vegetable gardener.