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Composting
Have you wondered about making your own compost? Have you tried but it didn’t work out? Come learn about making your own compost at home, including worm composting, and how to use compost to make your own fertilizer! Organic gardening is the better way; come learn with us!
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Fantastic Free 3-Hour Introduction to Permaculture
This fantastic three-hour free interactive workshop will cover what permaculture can do for you and for society from a number of different angles. We will introduce principles that you can use with your own gardening or home or community, to grow healthy food, and create more resilience and abundance. You will learn specific permaculture techniques you can apply immediately to increase abundance for yourself and loved ones while helping the environment. Permaculture design gives you the tools to: Grow healthy,…
Find out more »Edible Landscape Design
Edible Landscape Design This specialty course will focus on practical, step-by-step methods and Florida- specific techniques to create beautiful edible landscaping and edible forest gardens. Learn: Top plants to use for Southwest Florida edible landscaping - beautiful, easy to grow, high in nutrition, and delicious How to combine these plants in landscape patterns How to create or use existing microclimates in your yard - shade, sun, wet, dry, small spaces, etc. Florida-friendly “no-watering or low-watering” methods of planting Urban farming…
Find out more »Reversing Diabetes, Naturally
Learn what can sabotage your efforts to reduce your glucose levels. You may be surprised that many are reducing their A1c by 2 points in weeks! Learn how to: * Stabilize glucose levels * Improve or eliminate diabetic neuropathy * Reduce or possibly eliminate medication * Reduce insulin * Lose weight
Find out more »Summer Gardening Activities for SWFL
What activities are best for this time of year in our climate? It’s a great time for pruning, propagating, planting, and soil building. Is now a good time to put out fertilizer and what types of fertilizer are best? What about container gardens? Come learn about gardening activities for the heat of our summer months.
Find out more »Get Ready for Fall Gardens in SWFL
Yes! Now is the time to plan for our cool weather plantings. Learn about starting seeds, succession planting, and soil preparation for chemical free, healthy, and productive fall vegetable and herb gardens. Learn what activities will prepare your fall garden so you can produce the healthiest, most nutritious, and delicious harvest. From tropical favorites, traditional vegetables, flowers, and herbs, find out what to grow, when to plant, and how to maintain a healthy garden throughout the fall and winter growing…
Find out more »Gardening Talk
Many of our regular gardening class attendees have requested a monthly open topic gardening discussion. In this class, attendees can bring their questions, plant problems, and ideas; we’ll share organic methods and solutions to problems. These talks have been so fun! There is nothing like the learning that happens with interactive discussion and sharing a wide variety of experiences. Come on by and learn with us! If you bring plant parts with a problem, please keep the plant parts in…
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