About Master Urban Gardener Practicum

For the first time ever The Boston Community Gardens Team will be hosting a hands on Master Urban Gardener (MUG) Practicum class!

This is the perfect opportunity to hone your gardening skills in an intensive and hand on class at the peak of planting season. Explore What City Natives has to offer from a full greenhouse setup to rare fruit trees.

This program is open to all, but is suggested in tandem with our winter or fall MUG sections

The cohort will be hosted weekly from May 2nd to June 6th (with Memorial Day weekend off) from 2:00-3:30pm at City Natives Greenhouse in Mattapan 30 Edgewater Drive.

• May 2 – Gardening Basics
  • Get your hands dirty practicing horticulture basics on City Native’s green house veggies, fruit trees, and berry bushes
• May 9 – Seeds and Seedling Care
  • Master all seed and seedling life stages from cotyledons to hardening off
• May 16 – Soil and Compost
  • Discover the secret to living soil and fertile compost
• May 30 – Preserving the Harvest
  • Harvest spring greens and learn to make them last
• June 6 – Native Plant Horticulture
  • Explore City Natives nursery stock, learning what plants live where

This course will be sliding scale $0-150

Please submit applications by April 20th

To apply please submit the completed form here – 2026 Master Urban Gardener Practicum Application – Fill out form

Questions? Email Max mfrancke@thetrustees.org