Workshop Details
Registration:
email: hastingsfoodsac@gmail.com
Date & Time: the last Tue of every month
morning session: 10-12 noon
evening session: 6-8 pm
Cost: $8 per adult per session, kids free!
Location: Hastings Community Centre, East Hastings & Lillooet St, Vancouver
Overview
The Teaching garden workshops provide practical gardening knowledge as well as some of the theory behind organic techniques of growing food throughout the year. They give families the opportunity to learn & practice their newly acquired skills before trying on their own home garden plot. Each month we cover topics relevant to the season.
Choose between the morning or evening session. Childminding is available for the morning sessions only.
The Seasons of Food program also includes classes in nutrition and cooking. Email hastingsfoodsac@gmail.com for details.
Outline
January
- Composting
- Soil Building
- Starting onions & leeks indoors
- Preparing your early spring beds
- Planning a herb garden
February
- Making a mid-winter salad
- Native edibles
- Starting early greens indoors
- Starting peas outdoors
March
- Planting out early greens
- Starting tomatoes indoors
- Spreading compost
- Managing mulch crops
April
- Starting root crops outdoors (carrot, beet, radish)
- Transplanting greens outdoors (kale, broccoli)
- Starting squash & cucumber indoors/in greenhouse
- Moving tomatoes to the greenhouse
- More bed preparation
- Planting beneficial attractants
May
- Transplanting onions & leeks
- Transplanting squash, tomatoes, cucumbers (weather permitting)
- Planting beans and more root crops
- Trellising
- Testing your soil
June
- Starting fall/winter crops
- organic soil amendments
July – Nov
Stay tuned for details!
