4 Seasons Adult Gardening Workshop Series
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Join Medway Community Farm’s Education Coordinator, Marlee Blasenheim, for a 4-part workshop series on organic vegetable gardening designed to support you through a year of growing your own food. Each season, we will discuss the information, tasks and skills needed to successfully plan, grow, share and preserve your harvests. Participants will also have the opportunity to share, collaborate and ask questions throughout the year via an online gardening group. This workshop series is open to gardeners of all experience levels looking to expand their gardening knowledge in community with others.
Fee: $30/session, $100 for all 4
Winter: Planning Your Garden
Monday, February 9, 6-8pm
- Crop Plan Basics
- Garden Map/Layout
- Identifying your goals
- Frost Dates, Days to Maturity, Plants per foot
- Planning succession plantings
- Sourcing Plants, Seeds & Materials
- Recommended Seed Companies
- When to buy seed vs transplants
- Understanding lingo
- What to look for when buying transplants
- Material recommendations
Spring: Planting Your Garden
Date: Sunday May 3, 1pm-3pm
- Preparing the soil
- Raised bed & tilling options
- Compost, amendments & mulch
- Tools
- Seed starting & transplanting
- Seed trays & soil mixes
- Assessing transplant health
- Transplanting vs. direct sowing
- Tending to young plants
- Pest prevention & physical barriers
- Trellises & supports
- Watering techniques
Summer: Preserving Your Garden
Date: Sunday August 9, 1pm-3pm
- Harvest time
- Assessing ripeness
- Storage recommendations
- Food preservation & managing excess
- Canning
- Freezing
- Dehydrating
- Troubleshooting problems
- Weeding
- Pest & disease control for common crops
- Thinning & pruning
Fall: Perpetuating Your Garden
Date Sunday October 11, 1pm-3pm
- Seed Saving
- Plant Breeding & Selection
- Harvesting & processing seeds
- Storage & germination testing
- Year-end review
- Putting the garden to bed
- Crop assessment
- Soil testing