Growing a Garden Workshops

on Mar 01 in CSA News, Farm News by Josie

 Growing a Garden Worshops Classes

All class will be held at Peaceful Belly Farm located on Broken Horn Road west of Dry Creek Road and Hidden Springs.  These classes will each be 2 to 3 hours long focusing on one topic per class.    There are a limited number of spaces per class so sign up for the classes you want as soon.  Some classes will be held multiple times per day.   For more information or to sign up for a class please email Josie at peacefulbelly@yahoo.com.

March 6th ,10am Staring plants from seeds in your house under grow lights. Want to learn how to start your own plants for your garden?  In this class you will learn all about growing your own starts.  You will learn how to seed a flat, about potting soil, light requirements, disease, and moisture, seed starting and about a planting calendar.   This class will be taught in the green house at Peaceful Belly Farm, using their home made light banks.  Growing starts for your garden can be tricky, come learn from our past mistakes and accomplishments.  This class can accommodate 15 people, the price is $15.  Sign up quick….

March 13th, 10am or 1pm Creating a garden plan for your yard.  Want to start a veggie garden but have no idea where to start or how to plan it out?  This will be an intense 3 hour class about site, soil, design, crop rotation, companion planting.  Each student will be required to bring a map of dimensions of their garden so we can get to work.  Also each student will be required to bring a sample of soil from their garden.  This class can accommodate 5 students per class at $25 per student.  Sign up quick.. 

March 19th, 11am  How to set up drip irrigation.  This class will take a piece of ground and set up a drip irrigation system for our farm Kitchen garden.  This class will answer many questions about what irrigation to use, where to find it and how to set it up.  This will be a hands on class, we feel this is the best way to understand how to set up irrigation. This class can accommodate 15 students fee is $15 a class

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