The North Fulton Master Gardeners will hold the 23rd annual Garden Faire from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at The Grove at Wills Park in Alpharetta.
The year’s Garden Faire will have a large selection of plantings available for one-stop shopping, according to a press release.
The North Fulton Master Gardeners are partnering with the Georgia North Metro Atlanta Chapter of the Native Plant Society and the Alpharetta Community Agriculture Program for the event. All proceeds from the plant sale support community education efforts and project gardens supported by these organizations.
Master Gardeners and other gardening experts will help shoppers find the right plants for their gardens, such as flowering plants to attract butterflies, water-wise landscape choices, heirloom plants, herbs, veggies, and more.
Admission is free to the Garden Faire, which will be at 175 Roswell St., Alpharetta.
Williams said some people confuse the Master Gardeners with a garden club, but they are volunteers certified by the UGA Extension to be a resource for the horticultural community.
Williams spends her time with Sandy Springs projects. Her first project nine years ago was the community garden at the North Fulton Annex. She and the extension agent opened up some compost bins for the garden, which had 55 beds that were rented out to Fulton County residents.
At the start of the pandemic, they tried “Food for the Hungry Beds” to grow vegetables to take to local food pantries. Some donations were made to the Atlanta Food Bank and some to Solidarity Sandy Springs. But while those garden beds were productive for one person, it was harder to try mass production.
Since then, she’s been working with other Master Gardners at the National Park Service to restore gardens a the entrance of the Island Ford Unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Recently, she and her fellow gardeners planted hundreds of Christmas tree…
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