Intro to Urban Gardens Course April 6-8
****Sorry, this course is full. But please email us to let us know you are interested, as we may be offering another later in the year.****
Friday night is open to the public. RSVP required.
Introduction to Urban Food Gardens -- Gardening as if your meals depend on it.
Friday April 6 - Sunday April 8, 2007. Washington D.C.
Learn to garden organically in an urban environment. This hands-on and intensive two and a half day workshop will teach you how to grow a variety of food in your urban yard (or patio). Taking into account all the obstacles an urban setting presents to a gardener, this course covers how to work with “urban nature” rather than against it and to take advantage of valuable urban resources. Topics of the course will include, but are not limited to: low-maintenance gardening & design, soil amendments & preparation, water catchment, composting — all through a permaculture* approach.
*Permaculture is a method of working with nature to design systems to provide basic human needs such as food, shelter and health. This workshop serves as an introduction to the wisdom of permaculture and its possibilities for application in Washington D.C. (The material covered in this course can be applied to a full 72-hour permaculture certification course).
Instructor: Marisha Auerbach. Joining us from Olympia, Washington, Marisha is a long-time permaculture educator and practitioner. She specializes in sustainable urban food production, flower essences and herbal tinctures and has taught courses across the US, Canada and Central America. For more information on Marisha, visit her website www.herbnwisdom.com/Permaculture.php.
Schedule:
* Intro: Friday, April 6th. 7-10pm. Location: Emergence Community Arts Collective. 733 Euclid Street NW
* Part I: Saturday, April 7th. 10am- 5pm. Location: The 7th Street Garden.
* Part II: Sunday, April 8th. 12pm- 6pm. Location: The 7th Street Garden.
* Cost: $150, due March 16th. *Work/trade or scholarships available for qualifying residents. (Intro & Part I only: $100) Deposit: $75, due March 15th.
For more information and to register contact: Liz Falk at 7thStreetGarden@gmail.com or (202) 722 2962 www.shawecovillage.org, www.the7thstreetgarden.squarespace.com
Topics to be covered
Friday, April 6: 7-10pm. Location: Emergence Community Arts Collective. 733 Euclid Street NW
Growing your own Food! Introduction to course. Talk, slide show and video summarizes topics of the course. Hands-on: make seed balls
Saturday, April 7: 10 am – 5 pm. Location: The 7th Street Garden
Food Security: Where does our food come from? The future of our food.
What is permaculture? Why is it a response to the changing state of food? To climate change? To overall sustainability?
Permaculture ethics: The ethics that we live by.
Waste, compost, waste=food.
Hands-on: Build compost bin/pile appropriate for urban environment (if outside, to keep the rats out & inside composting for apartment residents)
Permaculture principles
Introduction to soils, the power of mushrooms, mulching, manure, sheet mulching, ‘Food Not Lawns’
Hands-on: Sheet mulching, inoculate mushrooms
Sunday, April 8: 12 pm – 6 pm. Location: the 7th Street Garden
Design methodologies; design for your urban garden space
Using your backyard or patio: Herbs, Building raised beds, containers gardens
Hands-on: Build an herb spiral, plant containers
Capturing water, conserving water, and watering your garden
Hands-on: Set up rain barrels
Perennial Forage Systems (How to create low-maintenance food gardens), Envisioning and planning for the future
Hands-on: Sowing, transplanting, broadcast
Urban food security, envisioning possibilities, finishing hands-on, closing
Friday April 6 - Sunday April 8, 2007. Washington D.C.
Learn to garden organically in an urban environment. This hands-on and intensive two and a half day workshop will teach you how to grow a variety of food in your urban yard (or patio). Taking into account all the obstacles an urban setting presents to a gardener, this course covers how to work with “urban nature” rather than against it and to take advantage of valuable urban resources. Topics of the course will include, but are not limited to: low-maintenance gardening & design, soil amendments & preparation, water catchment, composting — all through a permaculture* approach.
*Permaculture is a method of working with nature to design systems to provide basic human needs such as food, shelter and health. This workshop serves as an introduction to the wisdom of permaculture and its possibilities for application in Washington D.C. (The material covered in this course can be applied to a full 72-hour permaculture certification course).
Instructor: Marisha Auerbach. Joining us from Olympia, Washington, Marisha is a long-time permaculture educator and practitioner. She specializes in sustainable urban food production, flower essences and herbal tinctures and has taught courses across the US, Canada and Central America. For more information on Marisha, visit her website www.herbnwisdom.com/Permaculture.php.
Schedule:
* Intro: Friday, April 6th. 7-10pm. Location: Emergence Community Arts Collective. 733 Euclid Street NW
* Part I: Saturday, April 7th. 10am- 5pm. Location: The 7th Street Garden.
* Part II: Sunday, April 8th. 12pm- 6pm. Location: The 7th Street Garden.
* Cost: $150, due March 16th. *Work/trade or scholarships available for qualifying residents. (Intro & Part I only: $100) Deposit: $75, due March 15th.
For more information and to register contact: Liz Falk at 7thStreetGarden@gmail.com or (202) 722 2962 www.shawecovillage.org, www.the7thstreetgarden.squarespace.com
Topics to be covered
Friday, April 6: 7-10pm. Location: Emergence Community Arts Collective. 733 Euclid Street NW
Growing your own Food! Introduction to course. Talk, slide show and video summarizes topics of the course. Hands-on: make seed balls
Saturday, April 7: 10 am – 5 pm. Location: The 7th Street Garden
Food Security: Where does our food come from? The future of our food.
What is permaculture? Why is it a response to the changing state of food? To climate change? To overall sustainability?
Permaculture ethics: The ethics that we live by.
Waste, compost, waste=food.
Hands-on: Build compost bin/pile appropriate for urban environment (if outside, to keep the rats out & inside composting for apartment residents)
Permaculture principles
Introduction to soils, the power of mushrooms, mulching, manure, sheet mulching, ‘Food Not Lawns’
Hands-on: Sheet mulching, inoculate mushrooms
Sunday, April 8: 12 pm – 6 pm. Location: the 7th Street Garden
Design methodologies; design for your urban garden space
Using your backyard or patio: Herbs, Building raised beds, containers gardens
Hands-on: Build an herb spiral, plant containers
Capturing water, conserving water, and watering your garden
Hands-on: Set up rain barrels
Perennial Forage Systems (How to create low-maintenance food gardens), Envisioning and planning for the future
Hands-on: Sowing, transplanting, broadcast
Urban food security, envisioning possibilities, finishing hands-on, closing
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