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Many varieties of vegetables and flowers are available to check out at the Master Gardeners' seed libraries. if possible, harvest your seeds and return them as a community effort. These libraries are found at the Hickory Flat, Ball Ground, and rose Creek libraries.

People line up to taste test delicious home grown tomatoes at the Senior Center.

A demonstration garden maintained by Master Gardeners at uuu the Cherokee County Senior Center on Univeter Road in Canton provides hands-on learning opportunities for residents. Plants grown at the garden are offered for sale, providing revenue to expand educational programs.

In addition to the demonstration garden at the senior center,

Cherokee County Extension Agent Josh Fuder is excited about plans for the Backyard Agricultural Education Station, a new food, fruit, and vegetable demonstration garden set to open to classes this spring at Veterans Park on Highway 20 in the Macedonia community. He says, “I have always wanted a demonstration garden where residents can learn about fruits and vegetables, and we are finally going to have one this spring. The County Extension

Office will oversee the fruit and vegetable garden with help from the Master Gardeners, a program of the Extension Service.”

A ribbon cutting is planned for March 22, and vegetable gardening will start in the spring. The orchard is already being planted, and the first class on fruit trees is planned. The first part of the class will be indoors at the R. T. Jones Regional Library in Canton, and the hands-on portion will be on-site. I talked with county arborist Shannon Fitzgerald and Stephen Shrout, the arborist with the parks people, and started looking around at some of our parks,” Josh explains. “

“In 2019 Stephen offered us a place at Veterans Park right next to the parking lot. The site is two-tenths of an acre. We followed up with Master Gardeners, planning and zoning, and others to see what we could dream up.”