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The Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve is launching an educational program for silver volunteers of the Garden of Medicinal Plants. The Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve invites everyone to join the educational program for silver volunteers of the Garden of Medicinal Plants, where students will learn the history and properties of medicinal and spicy herbs. Classes will be held on June 18 and 25 at 17:00 on the Zoom platform. To become a student of the educational course, you must leave a free-form application by email to [email protected] before June 18, indicating "Silver Volunteer" in the subject line. The volunteer program of the Garden of Medicinal Plants was launched in the summer of 2018 and became especially popular among older people. After completing a short course from the park staff, the program volunteers spent several hours a week on weekends in the Garden of Medicinal Plants and organized walks around it, telling visitors about the history and properties of medicinal herbs. For obvious reasons, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve did not organize a volunteer program in 2020. However, this year we are conducting an online educational program with the expectation that later the restrictive measures for holding events will be relaxed or canceled, and the course participants will be able to consolidate the learned material in practice, becoming full-fledged volunteers of the Medicinal Plants Garden and conducting educational walks for visitors. The Medicinal Plants Garden is a botanical exposition where you can see more than 60 species of medicinal herbs and shrubs, opened in the summer of 2018 and located between the First and Second Greenhouses. In the estate tradition of the 17th-18th centuries, medicinal gardens in country residences were the most common thing - they grew all kinds of fragrant and medicinal herbs for medicinal purposes. They were also used for cooking. Despite the lack of documentary evidence, it is highly likely that the private farmsteads of the Kantemirs, Golitsyns, and even the Streshnevs (the former owners of the area where the museum is now located) had similar vegetable gardens.