2025 Volunteer Requirements for Master Gardeners and Interns
Master Gardeners must complete at least 30 hours of volunteer service to maintain their credentials. This includes 10 hours of continuing education (CE), 14 hours of operational support and six hours of public education (PE). The CE requirement does not apply to interns. See the current SFEMG newsletter for volunteer hour opportunities.
Join Kaitlin Haase, Pollinator Conservation Specialist with the Xerces Society, for a presentation on welcoming pollinators to your gardens and yards in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Master Gardeners Let’s Grow Series
Building a Hummingbird Garden
Master Gardeners will present the important aspects of a well-designed hummingbird garden. Participants will learn about the hummingbirds found in our area and what attracts them to a garden.
Randall Davey Audubon Center
Free; no registration required
Santa Fe Master Gardeners Let’s Grow! Series
Let's Grow Your Own Habitat
No time to waste: the biodiversity crisis is urgent, but the solution is in your hands. Discover easy ways you can contribute to saving the planet.
Exhibition Hall, Santa Fe County Cooperative Extension Campus, 3229 Rodeo Road
Free; no registration required
Santa Fe Master Gardeners Let’s Grow! Series
Hands-on demonstration - How to build a hot compost pile. Also included: vermicomposting (composting with red wiggler worms); composting in tumblers; hot vs. cold compost piles (active vs. static); Bokashi (an anaerobic fermentation process in a bucket). Demonstrations and instruction by the Santa Fe Compost Action Team (SCAT).
In the Compost demonstration area at the Santa Fe Extension Campus
Free; no registration required
Master Gardeners Let’s Grow! Series
Gardening Best Practices for Beautiful and Sustainable Landscapes
Learn about the creation of El Zaguan’s 19th-century flower garden and how emerging climate challenges and support for wildlife drive new plant choices and cultivation methods. Discover practical strategies to promote gorgeous and environmentally friendly gardening across the seasons. Q&A, garden tour, light refreshments provided.
Free; no registration required
Santa Fe Botanical Garden
Digging Deeper: Honoring the Legacy: the David Salman Tribute Garden
$ / Registration required / 1 CE per hour of participation
Limited Space for a Vegetable Garden Shouldn’t Prevent You from Enjoying Your Own Fresh Produce with Dr. Stephanie Walker, NMSU Extension Vegetable Specialist
Free / Registration required / 1 CE
Santa Fe Watershed Association
Rain Garden Maintenance Workshop
Free / Registration required / 1 CE per hour of participation
Santa Fe Community College Continuing Education
At the SF County Extension office
$ / Registration Required / 3 CE
Seed Packing for the Southside Library
Free / 2 CEs
NMSU Ready, Set GROW! Webinar Series
NMSU’s Cooperative Extension Service offers this free gardening series online at 3 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month. Past presentations are recorded and available on demand.
(1 CE per class)
Raising Your Gardening Game with Drew Garnett, Chaves County Extension Agriculture Agent
Free / Registration required / 1 CE
Seed Packing for the Southside Library
Free / 2 CEs
Seed Packing for the Southside Library
Free / 2 CEs
Live Online
From the Ground Up with Karim Gharbi from CSU Extension
Free / Registration required / 1 CE per hour of participation
Santa Fe Community College Continuing Education
Garden Superstars with Bob Pennington
$ / Registration Required / 1 CE per hour of participation
SF County Extension Exhibit Hall
2025 SCAT - Meet the Soil Food Web - Soil Health Class & Live Demo
Free / MG 2 CE, Interns 2 OS
Santa Fe Community College Continuing Education
Regenerative Water Strategies with Amanda Bramble
$ / Registration required / 1 CE per hour of participation
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
2025 Land and Water Summit - Agenda
Fee / 1 CE per hour of participation
Basics of Growing Roses with Katherine O’Brien
Free/1 CE
Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive
Free / 1 CE
On October 2, 2024, the New Mexico chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society(NARGS) will begin the 2024-2025 season with a presentation by local rock garden extraordinaire Robin McGowan,“Intro to Rock Gardening.”Magowan is a poet, academician, world traveler, and gardener. In 2012 he moved from his established home and garden in Connecticut to his current home on a hillside in southeast Santa Fe, where he’s been developing and refining his fantastic garden ever since.“Magowan has very nearly single-handedly introduced more than a thousand plants to the property. Some are indigenous to New Mexico while others were ordered through catalogs specializing in rare plants from locations as far away as Turkey.” (Kathy Haq, “A Poet and his Rock Garden,” Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners newsletter, October 2019).
Reservation recommended - Register here
New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service will host a virtual Green Chile Preservation Workshop to share safe home food preservation techniques on drying, canning, freezing and preserving New Mexican green chile. The workshop will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Oct. 1, 8, 15 and 22 on Zoom.
The workshops are free and open to all New Mexicans. Registration is required, and the deadline is Sept. 30. Max capacity is 50 participants per workshop, and participants may attend one or all.
For more information, visit Brochure
Registration is required: Event Registration
A Let’s Grow session
Hands-on session to learn the basics of harvesting, cleaning, and storing seeds. Vegetables, herbs, and flowers will be covered. Participants will go home with seeds!
Located at the Small Classroom, Exhibit Hall, Santa Fe County Cooperative Extension Campus.
Registration required - details
Fee: $145 by August 29, 2024
Friday evening social event
Saturday program
Limited to 100 participants
Registration open to the public.
A Let’s Grow session
Participate in a hands-on demonstration and learn how to build a hot compost pile! Also covered:
vermicomposting (composting with red worms), Bokashi, tumblers and hot piles vs. cold piles or
static composting. Taught by the Santa Fe Compost Action Team, a project of the SFEMG.
Located at the SFEMG Compost Demonstration Area at the Santa Fe County Cooperative Extension Campus.
An activity of the Santa Fe Seed Stewards Project.
Need more information? email MasterGardeners@sfemg.org and put “Attention: Susie-Seed Stewards in the subject line.
Santa Fe Public Library, Cafe Room in the Southside branch
Join NMSU Specialists Leslie Beck, Joanie King, Phillip Lujan, and Marisa Thompson for
a morning of collecting and identifying plant diseases, disorders, insects, and weeds.
Sharpen your diagnostics and identification skills and earn 4 CEUs. Fanny pack with
specimen collection supplies provided for each participant.
Registration requested: https://rsvp.nmsu.edu/rsvp/diwiden
Don’t forget sun hat, appropriate clothing & footwear, sunscreen, and water. This is a
field and in-ground garden setting, terrain may be uneven. Bring portable chairs if you
cannot stand for over 45 minutes at a time.
Need more information or are an individual with a disability in need of an auxiliary aid or service
to participate, contact in advance Lynda Garvin (505)243-1386 or lgarvin@nmsu.
Discover Extension
Delivering Solutions to Improve Lives for All New Mexicans
See demonstrations by Master Gardeners, enjoy food tastings, youth
activities, and all we have to offer the Santa Fe community.
For a complete schedule, directions, and more information visit:
New Mexico Native Plant Society 2024 Annual Conference
Thursday, July 25 - Sunday, July 28 in Taos
Proper deadheading stimulates new growth and offers an opportunity to shape the bush. Wear long-sleeved shirt, gloves, hat; bring pruners and plastic-type container for cut rose canes.
Harvey Cornell Rose Garden, 1320 Galisteo Parkway
FREE, no registration required
Learn how to successfully grow colorful, drought-tolerant, low-maintenance native plants.
Native Plant Demonstration Gardens, Santa Fe County Cooperative Extension Campus, 3229 Rodeo Road
FREE, No registration required
