Our mission is to educate residents of Culpeper, Madison, Orange, and Rappahannock counties about safe, effective and sustainable garden management practices. We are volunteers who have received extensive training under the auspices of Virginia Tech and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Office to provide unbiased, research-based horticultural information and advice to the communities in our four counties. We hold four meetings per year, two of which are potluck dinners with speakers. The other two are field trips. Additionally, every two to three years, we hold a day long training conference with speakers and topics of interest to the Master Gardener community. Membership is $20 annually, due March 1, each year.

Virginia Cooperative Extension is an educational outreach program of Virginia's land grant universities: Virginia Tech and Virginia State University. It is part of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) (formerly Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture.  Every state has a Cooperative Extension office and 48 states have a Master Gardener Program.  The Master Gardener Program was established to assist the Extension office in meeting the enormous increase in requests from homeowners for horticultural information and advice.  Additionally, Master Gardeners work with professionals, such as teachers, activity therapists, and others who work with people, thus carrying the benefits of horticulture to a much broader population than homeowners alone.