Gila County Master Gardener Course

Gardening and Landscape Offered at Eastern Arizona College Payson Campus

Payson College Gardening and Landscape Class Starts January 15:  

Want to get more healthy greens and veggies from your garden – boost the health of a heritage fruit tree on your land – or grow your most radiant flowers yet? Learn gardening basics and explore more advances topics of horticulture, too, when University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Agent Christopher Jones hosts a weekly class that starts Jan. 15 and continues Tuesdays weekly from 12:30 – 3:10 p.m. featuring expert guest speakers from Gila County and the University of Arizona. Taught at the Payson community college campus at 201 North Mud Springs Road, you’ll find it listed online as AGR230 ‘Gardening and Landscape.’ Chris Jones, and his guest speakers, will host a weekly lecture and provide hands-on activities and fieldtrips to make this course exceptionally informative and well-tailored to northern Gila County. Did you know this is among other classes offered free to students age 55 years and older? Ask about the senior waiver when you register. For those under age 55, the cost for the course includes standard tuition and fees. The text is the Arizona Master Gardener Manual, available online from UA Cooperative Extension Publications. Register at Gila County Community College in person, by phone at 928-468-8039 or at  gilaccc.org. This class also provides training and opportunities to become a Master Gardener volunteer. A Master Gardener receives certification after successfully completing the course, registering as an official University of Arizona Cooperative Extension volunteer and remaining active by conducting at least 50 hours of volunteer educational service in the following 12 months. Any student with a disability may request reasonable accommodation, such as a sign language interpreter, by contacting Elsa Bobier, (928) 267-3112. Requests should be made as early as possible to allow time to arrange the accommodation.