![Chidi Chidozie discussing plants with two women.](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/Chidi.jpg?h=ed200f32&itok=VS9lyDX_)
University of Minnesota collaboration on traditional plants broadens to include more farmers and gardeners from African nations.
![Three women look at each other and at the strawberries growing out of holes in an aluminum tower that is about their height.](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/strawberries%20Meyers%20Center.jpg?h=d4fb9804&itok=Eqztxk6W)
Ten Master Gardener volunteers were part of the team that built The Foodscape surrounding the new Burton and Virginia Myers Education Center.
![Youth posing around a raised garden bed with straw. Many are wearing University of Minnesota shirts](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/youth-gardening.jpg?h=52be1191&itok=6FPGebJT)
Urban Agriculture Initiative transforms vacant lots into bright futures.
![Marie Davis is joined by Extension intern Noah Burley at her raised bed garden at Lake Minnetonka Shores senior living.](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/mg-LakeMinnetonkaShores-MarieDavis-NoahBurley-2022.jpg?h=03dccae2&itok=eetDFRGv)
Gardening has been part of resident life at Lake Minnetonka Shores for 40 years. Extension has been helping them out since 2008.
Jennifer Knutson shares thoughts on edible landscapes, pollinators and volunteering as a Master Gardener.
![Youth holding fruit from a tree](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/UAI.jpg?itok=rDAgow_B)
Hennepin-University Urban Agriculture Initiative is a partnership between Hennepin County and the University of Minnesota’s Hennepin County Extension Office.
![Ann Thureen and Greg Towne in front of raised garden bed](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/two-volounteers.jpg?h=bd00373c&itok=rbE0MCdP)
University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener volunteers help elders and people with memory disorders — and their caregivers.