In partnership with the Extension Services in Coweta, Douglas, Polk, Haralson, and Paulding counties, the Carroll County Extension Service offers an annual area Master Gardener training program. A limited number of applicants are accepted into the program. Selection is based on individual ability and compatibility with the Extension Program.

Those accepted into the program receive 40 hours of training by specialists from The University of Georgia, Extension agents, and other landscaping and horticulture specialists and be provided with various materials and a 541-page Georgia Master Gardener Handbook. The training program covers the basics of horticulture: soil structure, plant nutrition, plant physiology, and entomology, and such topics as plant selection; water wise landscaping; planting and maintaining turf, ornamentals, and fruit, and urban trees; plant identification; vegetable gardening; composting; and organic and specialty gardening.

In addition to satisfactorily completing this training program, Master Gardener certification requires 50 hours of volunteer service annually.