Citizen Gardener #9 Basics Class Series with Instructor Khaled

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