Wednesday, February 17, 2010

A Garden Workshop for the Beginning, Spiritual, Scientific and Lazy Gardeners

While getting ready to garden this season it's important to align your personal values to your garden. The Garden Workshop on March 6th , 2010 at the Willits Grange, will help you do just that.

Featuring local experts in Permaculture, Bio-Intensive, Bio-dynamics, and the Master Gardeners of Ukiah, this work shop will have a class for all levels of gardeners.

Here is the schedule of events:

9:30 volunteers arrive to help set up tables and final decorations
10:00 Doors open to public,
10:15 Opening words and introductions by Mason Giem
10:20 History and philosophy of the gardening techniques, 15-20 minutes for each approach.
11:30 Break for lunch, Lunch will be available for donation by WELL at the new commercial kitchen from the grange. This will be a good time for networking, enjoying great food, and getting seeds, starts and tools from the tables presented by Sanhedrin Nursery and Bountiful Gardens.
12:30 Welcome back and direction to the break out groups.
12:45 Begin breakout session 1
Room 1: Master Gardeners of Ukiah
This section will be for beginning gardeners.
Room 2: Permaculture- David Partch
This section will discuss the Permaculture way of life as it pertains to backyard gardening.
Room 3: Grow Bio-Intensive- Carol Cox
This section will be getting into the scientific approach to growing the most amount of food with the least amount of water.
Room 4: BioDynamic- Charles Martin
This section will be for the spiritual gardener.
2:10 End session 1
2:15 Start session 2: The Permaculture, Bio-intensive, and Biodynamics sections will repeat but the Master Gardeners will build on the first section.
3:45 End session 2
3:50 Bring people back to Great Hall for closing thank you's.
4:00 Volunteers to start cleaning up.

Tickets are for sale at $10 and can be found at all MendoMill locations, Leaves of Grass Book Store, and the Ukiah Natural foods co-op. Get them now before they run out.

For more information or if you wish to help in promoting human ecological conscience contact:

Mason Giem at 707-841-0464
email masegiem@gmail.com
Gardensproject.org
or at the Willits Action Group Office
221 D. South Lenore Ave.
Willits, Ca 95490

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