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Begins Sept. 10! Sign up now!
Now is the time to start your year-round, Organic Vegetable Garden Harvest veggies all winter, and when springtime comes, you will enjoy an abundance of delicious, nutritious, and inexpensive fresh food. In this hands-on class, comprised of 6 weekly workshops, we will create two 4’ x 10’ garden plots from the ground up; plant and learn how to maintain the garden; and then enjoy a harvest. Monday nights, 6-8 pm September 10: 30 day compost, starting cool season crops September 17: double digging and soil building September 24: edging with rock and/or straw bales, drip irrigation installation (Skip October 1) October 8: planting the cool season crops and mulching October 15: companion planting, seasonal vegetables, and fertilizing October 22: weeding, thinning, and harvesting
Held in East Washoe Valley, between Reno and Carson City. $150 for six weeks Call Catherine at 775-849-3248 or 775-287-7580 to register Taught by Marcia & Steve Litsinger, Churchill Butte Organics, offering year-round locally produced organic vegetables since 1997. Marcia is an independent organic inspector, CCOF certified, and co-chair of the Nevada Organic Council. Learn what is known as “organic urban agriculture” and “French intensive gardening.” Get the maximum yield out of the smallest amount of space, build the soil, eliminate the many costs of transportation. Feed yourself and your family great organic food.
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