Community Outreach
Laramie County Master Gardeners accepted the responsibility for a community Garden Walk in 1987. This increasingly popular event is held every-other-year, typically in July, on a Sunday afternoon. The Garden Walk Committee identifies and selects local gardens that illustrate successes when gardening in southeastern Wyoming's challenging climate. The next Garden Walk is planned for Summer 2025.
Our Youth Education Committee's mission is to make gardening fun! Our volunteers offer workshops to the Boys & Girls Club After-School Elementary Program and Summer Gardening Program for all grades. They help youth maintain community gardens and teach them the wonder of growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit trees and shrubs. In 2023, their hands-on, educational approach inspired 59 students to produce 370 pounds of produce in the Boys & Girls Club Community Gardens.
Established in 2017, this collaborative project between the Laramie County Master Gardeners and the Laramie County Library System aims to educate, encourage, and inspire residents with the joy of growing their own plants. Thanks to their support and funding, the seed library offers educational workshops and free plant seeds to Laramie County Residents. Volunteers prioritize seed varieties that are known to do well in our short growing season and the heart of the collection comes from Master Gardeners' own gardens and the Laramie County Library's Urban Wildlife Habitat. The seed library is housed on the 3rd Floor of the Laramie County Library, and you do not need a library card to select and receive seed packets. The seed library kick-off typically begins in March and runs through mid-September each year.
- Read more about the Seed Library of Laramie County here: 2024 LCMG Blog Article
The LCMG and the Laramie County Conservation District partnered to convert an underutilized, 13,000 square-foot, irrigated, bluegrass turf detention pond located at the Laramie County Library. Three primary goals of the pond conversion included: incorporating a water-wise landscape to reduce/eliminate the need for irrigation; creating a critical habitat for pollinator species in the heart of Cheyenne; and providing a native seed source for the Seed Library of Laramie County by incorporating exclusively regional and zonal native plant species in the habitat area. The project received funding in 2019 from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crop Block Grant. The grant was used primarily to purchase over 5,000 plants comprising 80 species, while the design and installation was mostly volunteer. The LCMG helped with site design and plant selection, to include locating plant seeds and propagators. Library volunteers currently maintain the site. Read more about this project here:
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Local library's pollinator habitat nurtures birds, bugs, and blooms, UW Barnyards & Backyards Magazine, Fall 2023, pages 7-9
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Laramie County Library Habitat Storyboard provided by the Laramie County Conservation District, May 9, 2022
Have a community project idea?
LCMG Active Members may submit ideas to the LCMG Legacy Committee (projects@lcmg.org)
