Gardening Education
Gardening can be a real education that you can share with others. Sharing your passion for gardening with others is a great gift of this hobby, as is being able to share the fruits of your labor by giving away fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers to friends and family.
Public gardens are designed to share the beauty and enjoyment of gardening with society at large, and they help to educate the community and inspire others to start gardens of their own. For example, the vegetable garden at the Master Gardeners of Southwestern Indian Association headquarters is managed by a team and grows vegetables which are all donated to the local food banks. This garden alone produced over 6,000 pounds of vegetables for the food bank in 2011, which will help to serve the needy in three states.