Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 8:30 AM - Saturday, October 03, 2009 at 12:00 PM (CT)
Want to learn about Austin’s unique growing season(s), climate, soils, plants, and water resources?
Want to raise safe, nutritious food for your family, and your children to know and enjoy gardening?
Don’t have a lot of time, money, patience, or space…but want food and want it to work, now?
What will I learn?
• Basics: Turn your bare ground or Bermuda grass lawn into
raised-garden beds – in the right place, with the right soil. Small
enough to manage, big enough to provide real food.
• Techniques: Raised beds; soil, mulch, and compost; bio-intensive/square-foot gardening; plant varieties for
Central Texas; water management; plant starts, seeds, and propagation; good and bad bugs.
• Do It,…Learn I,…Go Home and Do It:. Saturday AM workshops include fun
outdoor activities with a great group. Schedule coincides with our fall
planting season.
The Fall Garden – Plant in Sept – Harvest through Nov.
• Late Aug - Sept is the planting time for most vegetables in Austin’s unique Fall Gardening season
• Grow/harvest until late Nov. – early Dec.(and beyond).
• Fall provides great weather to be active and outdoors. Help add to
your family’s well-being, and nutrition, your exercise, and Austin’s
food movement and local food supply – become a “Foodie”
Details
• Course Fee is $50 for two hands-on classes and one evening
discussion, or FREE with a pledge of ten hours of volunteer time to a
CG Garden Partner (list available on website). Material fee is $40.
• A new Course (3 classes) will start every Sat., in Sept. – also, early-bird class – Aug. 22, 26, 29.
• Check website for locations (N, S, E) and questions/enrollments to citizengardener08@gmail.com
This is the last class for the Fall '09 Session. If you are not able to enroll in this one or a previous one, check back in mid-January when we will start the sessions for the next planting season.
Instructor: Khaled
Location: Bahá'í Faith of Austin, 2215 E. M. Franklin Ave, Austin, TX 78723
Saturday September 26 and Saturday October 3 from 8:30am - 12:00pm
Evening meeting on Wednesday September 30th from 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 8:30 AM
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Saturday, October 03, 2009 at 12:00 PM (CT)
Citizen Garden offers 10 hours of class instruction and 10 hours of apprentice with a more seasoned gardener and then you become an official Citizen Gardener.
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