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Organic Vegetable Gardening for Beginners (Fall)
August 19
10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
$85.00
This workshop on organic gardening techniques will cover end-of-season
topics, such as: protecting mature plants from light frosts and saving
your harvest from those killer frosts. And you’ll get lots of ideas
for preserving and storing the abundance of the fall season. You will
also learn about building new garden beds, cover-cropping, planting garlic,
putting your gardens to bed for the winter, tool care, building fall compost
piles and screening mature compost for spring plantings. Take home a handbook
of ideas and resources, and a variety of seed catalogues to peruse over
winter while you plan next year’s garden!
co-ordinator: Karen Copeland
As a young environmentalist, Karen came to organic gardening
first through the act of composting. She set up and maintained compost
bins at many places of work in an effort to reduce waste, eventually acquiring
the nickname Copey Composter. A transient lifestyle prevented her from
seeing any garden through an entire growing season until she set down
roots in 1998 southwest of Thunder Bay, where the gardens have grown in
size each year, providing food for home and the Country Market. In 2005,
Karen co-founded Cattails Farm, which ran a trial Community Supported
Agriculture (CSA) project, providing produce to eight subscriber/members,
followed by a 16-family CSA in 2006.
Karen dreams of a day when part of every yard is devoted to growing nutritious
fruits and vegetables, much like is done in other countries, helping people
to re-connect with the source of their food, as well as acquiring independence
from a food system which is lacking in nutrition, taste and soul. She
believes growing food locally and organically is one of the most important
investments we can make for future generations and for the planet as a
whole.
