Growing Edibles / Small Gardens
Thursday, May 24
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.Don’t let a small space deter you from having fresh, home-grown fruits and veggies. Learn to maximize a small yard, patio or window boxes to grow your own healthy and delicious food. This class covers the basics of site selection and preparation, plant choices, and special techniques for using containers and trellises to make the most of your space. Bring your own container / or use complimentary containers / or unique containers available for purchase. Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: May 17
Weed I.D. and Control
Thursday, May 31
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
The key to controlling weeds in your garden is knowing the varieties. Learn how to recognize and manage the weeds in your landscape. If there is a particular weed driving you crazy, bring it along for class discussion.Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: May 24
Shade Gardening
Thursday, June 7
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
If you have a shaded yard and think your choices are limited, you're in for a big surprise! Learn about fantastic understory trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plant choices, including many seldom-used selections. The class focuses on plants that work well in combination for a shade garden that looks like a healthy plant community.Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: May 31
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.Don’t let a small space deter you from having fresh, home-grown fruits and veggies. Learn to maximize a small yard, patio or window boxes to grow your own healthy and delicious food. This class covers the basics of site selection and preparation, plant choices, and special techniques for using containers and trellises to make the most of your space. Bring your own container / or use complimentary containers / or unique containers available for purchase. Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: May 17
Weed I.D. and Control
Thursday, May 31
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
The key to controlling weeds in your garden is knowing the varieties. Learn how to recognize and manage the weeds in your landscape. If there is a particular weed driving you crazy, bring it along for class discussion.Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: May 24
Shade Gardening
Thursday, June 7
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
If you have a shaded yard and think your choices are limited, you're in for a big surprise! Learn about fantastic understory trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plant choices, including many seldom-used selections. The class focuses on plants that work well in combination for a shade garden that looks like a healthy plant community.Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: May 31
Edible Architecture Series : $35/class or 3/$95
Edible Architecture : The Herb Spiral
Thursday, June 14
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.Herb Spirals add instant character and edible architecture to your landscape. Spirals are a great way to grow an abundance of herbs and plants in a small space. The herb spiral creates multiple micro-climates for a range of favorite herbs. Starting at the top where it is sunny and windy Mediterranean herbs like rosemary, oregano and thyme are planted, winding down chives to the north, parsley and cilantro to the east, sage, basil and lavender to the south, wrapping up with water cress or flavored mints at the lowest, moistest point. The mix is up to you as you have lots of space and conditions to work with. Herb spirals also extend the growing season by heating up early in the year and stay productive late into the season from the radiant rock heat.Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: June 7
Edible Architecture : Raised Beds & Terraces
Thursday, June 21
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Well placed and designed garden beds can accent the topography of your landscape while passively harvesting water and nutrients, reducing your efforts for a verdant garden. Clearly defined raised beds and pathways help avoid soil compaction, allowing the soil to act as a living sponge and loose medium for plant roots. Starting your garden out with raised beds goes a far way to assure your planting success. Terraces and tiered landscaping gardens add instant architecture and growing space to otherwise uneventful and unproductive slopes. Like raised garden beds on contour terraces passively harvest rain water while stabilizing slopes and show casing gardens in unique and creative ways. Terraces present wonderful possibilities in the garden. They are outdoor living rooms during good weather and form a transition from the outdoors to the indoors throughout the year.
Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: June 14
Thursday, June 14
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.Herb Spirals add instant character and edible architecture to your landscape. Spirals are a great way to grow an abundance of herbs and plants in a small space. The herb spiral creates multiple micro-climates for a range of favorite herbs. Starting at the top where it is sunny and windy Mediterranean herbs like rosemary, oregano and thyme are planted, winding down chives to the north, parsley and cilantro to the east, sage, basil and lavender to the south, wrapping up with water cress or flavored mints at the lowest, moistest point. The mix is up to you as you have lots of space and conditions to work with. Herb spirals also extend the growing season by heating up early in the year and stay productive late into the season from the radiant rock heat.Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: June 7
Edible Architecture : Raised Beds & Terraces
Thursday, June 21
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Well placed and designed garden beds can accent the topography of your landscape while passively harvesting water and nutrients, reducing your efforts for a verdant garden. Clearly defined raised beds and pathways help avoid soil compaction, allowing the soil to act as a living sponge and loose medium for plant roots. Starting your garden out with raised beds goes a far way to assure your planting success. Terraces and tiered landscaping gardens add instant architecture and growing space to otherwise uneventful and unproductive slopes. Like raised garden beds on contour terraces passively harvest rain water while stabilizing slopes and show casing gardens in unique and creative ways. Terraces present wonderful possibilities in the garden. They are outdoor living rooms during good weather and form a transition from the outdoors to the indoors throughout the year.
Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: June 14
Edible Architecture : The Art of Espalier & Arbors – Growing
Vertically
Thursday, June 28
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Espaliered plants (pronounced “es-PAL-yer”) are plants that have been trained to grow in a flat plane against a wall,fence, or trellis, though the term has also been used to describe the technique of training a plant to grow a certain way. They are prized for their beautiful vertical accents and for their ability to add ornamental beauty to both compact and sweeping spaces. They can be used either as privacy screens, to adorn bare walls, to define walkways and drives, or to create an edible outdoor room. Providing not only a feast for the eyes, but for the palet as well. Imagine an espalier fruit fence with fanned gooseberries that create an ‘edible room’.Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: June 21
Thursday, June 28
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Espaliered plants (pronounced “es-PAL-yer”) are plants that have been trained to grow in a flat plane against a wall,fence, or trellis, though the term has also been used to describe the technique of training a plant to grow a certain way. They are prized for their beautiful vertical accents and for their ability to add ornamental beauty to both compact and sweeping spaces. They can be used either as privacy screens, to adorn bare walls, to define walkways and drives, or to create an edible outdoor room. Providing not only a feast for the eyes, but for the palet as well. Imagine an espalier fruit fence with fanned gooseberries that create an ‘edible room’.Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: June 21
Back Yard Ducks
Thursday, July 12
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 12
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Harvest fresh eggs from your own back yard! More and
more people are becoming ‘Flocksters’ and realizing the ease and joy of keeping
‘backyard’ ducks. This “Eggricultural” workshop will cover the basics of raising
and tending small flocks, including coop design, garden benefits & insect
control, breeds, disease and predator control.
Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: June 28
Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: June 28
Container
Gardening
Thursday, July 19
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Explore ways to create winning container plant combinations that transition well throughout the seasons. Learn to design outdoor containers with annuals and perennials that are aesthetically pleasing and horticulturally sound. Design principals will be illustrated and the use of repurposed, recycled, and sustainable materials and containers will be discussed.
Bring your own container / or use complimentary containers / or unique containers available for purchase.
Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: July 12
Compost Tea
Thursday July 26
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.Compost tea makes the benefits of compost go farther. Compost tea is a liquid extract of well-made compost that contains beneficial microorganisms and beneficial fungi. By steeping finished compost in water beneficial microorganisms, fungi and plant growth compounds are extracted into solution. It is made in a variety of ways, including with or without aeration, depending on whether it is a soil or foliar feed. It’s used as either a foliar spray or a soil drench, depending on where your plants and pasture has problems.
Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: July 19
Native Gardening for Beneficial Insects
Thursday, Aug 2
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.Discover how to attract beneficial insects to your garden using the best native plants for the region. These "good bugs" assist in natural suppression of pests (the "bad bugs") and pollination. Learn about a number of beneficial insects, including native bees, lady beetles, praying mantids, lacewings, and butterflies. Learn how to identify these insects, provide them with habitat, and support them with the plants they need at different stages of their life cycle.
Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: July 26
Thursday, July 19
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Explore ways to create winning container plant combinations that transition well throughout the seasons. Learn to design outdoor containers with annuals and perennials that are aesthetically pleasing and horticulturally sound. Design principals will be illustrated and the use of repurposed, recycled, and sustainable materials and containers will be discussed.
Bring your own container / or use complimentary containers / or unique containers available for purchase.
Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: July 12
Compost Tea
Thursday July 26
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.Compost tea makes the benefits of compost go farther. Compost tea is a liquid extract of well-made compost that contains beneficial microorganisms and beneficial fungi. By steeping finished compost in water beneficial microorganisms, fungi and plant growth compounds are extracted into solution. It is made in a variety of ways, including with or without aeration, depending on whether it is a soil or foliar feed. It’s used as either a foliar spray or a soil drench, depending on where your plants and pasture has problems.
Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: July 19
Native Gardening for Beneficial Insects
Thursday, Aug 2
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.Discover how to attract beneficial insects to your garden using the best native plants for the region. These "good bugs" assist in natural suppression of pests (the "bad bugs") and pollination. Learn about a number of beneficial insects, including native bees, lady beetles, praying mantids, lacewings, and butterflies. Learn how to identify these insects, provide them with habitat, and support them with the plants they need at different stages of their life cycle.
Instructor: Farmer Raye
Fee: $25 / Registration Deadline: July 26
Herbal Workshop
Thursday, Aug 9
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Discover how to select fresh and dried herbs and how to make teas, decoctions, tinctures and herbal oils and salves from them. Learn the basics of herbal preparations. Homemade products are fresher, last longer, and are more economical than store-bought herbal products. Make your own herbal tincture to take home.
(Includes a $10 Materials Fee)
Instructor: Farmer Kim
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: Aug 2
Nature's Pharmacy
Thursday, Aug 16
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
For centuries herbs and spices have been used to flavor foods and as medicine. Learn about plants historically used for first aid, asthma, insomnia, sinusitis, bronchitis, revitalizing the immune system, preventing colds and flu, and much more. Discover how to make shopping at the health food store a user-friendly experience.
Instructor: Farmer Kim
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: Aug 9
Thursday, Aug 16
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
For centuries herbs and spices have been used to flavor foods and as medicine. Learn about plants historically used for first aid, asthma, insomnia, sinusitis, bronchitis, revitalizing the immune system, preventing colds and flu, and much more. Discover how to make shopping at the health food store a user-friendly experience.
Instructor: Farmer Kim
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: Aug 9
