Urban Gardening 101: Gardening for Healing Track (Saturdays)

In step with the growing season, beginner gardeners are invited to gain hands-on learning experiences at the learning garden and greenhouse. In Spring unfurling, we’ll cover fundamental principles and practices of growing plants for specific urban green spaces, preparing soil, designing a garden suitable for each gardener’s specific needs, regenerative and climate-wise gardening, starting seeds, proper planting techniques, and basic plant care. Gardeners in this course will contribute to collective beds in our learning garden as well as tend seedlings to take to their own urban green spaces.

Urban Gardeners in this course can choose between two distinct tracks: Greening the In-Between and Gardening for Healing. Each of the tracks will cover the same core practices, but with specific lenses based on gardener’s motivation for beginning their urban gardening journey. In Greening-the-In-Between (Mondays), urban gardeners will focus on how to grow food for small urban spaces while the Gardening for Healing track (Saturdays) invites gardeners to slow their pace and bring in therapeutic horticulture elements.

Prerequisite(s): There are no prerequisites. This class is open to all levels, designed specifically for individuals who are new to gardening or have some experience but who have lacked a consistent place to grow beyond foundations.

Required Texts and Resources: No texts are required. Optional supplemental readings will be given for each class.

Attendance Policy: Due to limited spots in this class, we ask that participants take an honest look at the schedule and reflect if this course will work with their existing commitments. Classes will build on each other, and participants will benefit most if they are able to attend all of the sessions. If a participant is not able to attend, we ask that they communicate via email to the instructor. Participants who miss class are encouraged to see what they missed from fellow classmates in the next class and to get class materials to review on their own time.

Registration: Each track is limited to 12 participants per session. We ask that you kindly register prior the start of the cohort. Urban Gardening 101 is most suited for adults, and we kindly ask participants with children to consider one of our other weekly free family-friendly programs instead.

When registering, please select all 8 of the dates. To register for Monday track instead, please visit this link.

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