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10AM
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Some Like It Hot: How to Grow Warm Season Crops in the Cool Pacific Northwest
Seattle is a great climate for gardening, but heat-loving veggies such as tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers can be a challenge. This workshop will demonstrate how to warm up your soil earlier in spring, show off essential season extension products, and give a step-by-step growing plan for maximizing your harvest of heat loving vegetables.
Willi Galloway
Willi Galloway is the creator of the vegetable gardening and cooking blog DigginFood, a regular guest on the KUOW 94.9 gardening call-in show Greendays, and the West Coast Editor of Organic Gardening magazine.
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Safe and Healthy Edible Gardening
Edible gardening is increasing in popularity and it is important to know how to determine if the site, soil and containers you have chosen for growing food are safe to use. In this workshop you will learn how to choose safe materials for building raised beds, determine how healthy your soil is and when it is important to test for toxins in the soils and gauge which sites in your garden will be most suitable for edible plants. Includes resource lists for safe building materials and soil testing and free printed brochures from the Naturals Guides.
Laura Matter
Laura Matter is the Lead Environmental Educator on the Seattle Tilth Garden Hotline. She has been a practicing horticulturist for the past 30 years, and has a B.A. in Botany from the University of Washington.
Laura has her own business providing landscape consultations and garden tutoring,
specializing in native plantings, wildlife habitat and edible gardens. She has been one of the site coordinators of the Picardo Farm P-Patch for the past 5 years, and volunteered in public schools and community planting projects.
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Let's Get Growing!
Join Sue McGann as we go over the basics for growing your own veggies. We will cover soil, water, seed varieties, pests, harvests and more in this introduction to vegetable gardening. So, what are you waiting for, let's get growing!
Sue McGann
Sue McGann is an avid food gardener and community activist. She is the farm manager at Marra Farm and in her spare time she works with Puget School Gardens Collective, Sustainable NE, and the urban farmers of SUSTNE, where she spreads the word on home food gardening.
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Sow
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11 AM
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Edible Forest Gardens for the Urban Gardener
Learn how to create a Backyard Edible Forest Garden with yummy snack food, minimizing maintenance and maximizing yields.
Steffany Neuschaefer
Creating interactive gardens and landscapes has been a part of Steffany's pleasure since 1998. Sharing her passion for gardening is what she loves to do. Steffany's formal training includes a Landscape Design Degree from South Seattle Community College; a Certificate from the Master Gardener's Program; and studies in Herbalism from Sage Mountain Herbal Center. Currently, Steffany's focus is designing residential landscapes with edibles, herbs and natives so others can grow and enjoy the many uses of these plants.
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Bees, Goats and Chickens
Panel Discussion
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Building a Garden Community
Want to promote vegetable gardening on your block? Beautify your street with more parking strip gardens?
Or maybe you are a gardener with a big idea but not sure how to get it off the ground? Jayne Simmons from Sister Sage Herbs, Shannon and Jason Mullett-Bowlsby from the Lazy Locavores, Helen Shampain,
and Sandy Pederson from Urban Land Army will talk about how to organize your neighbors and start building a gardening community in your neighborhood.
Panel Discussion
Shannon and Jason Mullett-Bowlsby, Helen Shampain, Sandy Pederson, and Jayne Simmons
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Grow
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12 Noon
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Gourmet Vegetables: Tips and Techniques for Growing Your Best Tasting Vegetables Ever
One of the best reasons to grow vegetables at home is they taste better than store bought. Learn how to maximize the flavor and quality of your vegetables by choosing the right varieties, preparing healthy soil, and giving plants the best possible growing conditions. This workshop will feature specific growing plans for tomatoes, squash, peas, beans, and beets.
Willi Galloway
Willi Galloway is the creator of the vegetable gardening and cooking blog DigginFood, a regular guest on the KUOW 94.9 gardening call-in show Greendays, and the West Coast Editor of Organic Gardening magazine
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Pruning and Care of Fruit Trees
Fruit trees can be a bountiful as well as beautiful addition to your urban garden. I will be sharing with you tools,tips and techniques of pruning and training fruit trees to minimize work,increase fruit production and add beauty to your edible landscape.
Ingela Wanerstrand
Ingela Wanerstrand is a Certified Professional Horticulturist and Plant
Amnesty Certified Pruner and has learned how to prune fruit trees from
books and school but, mostly from several big, beautiful old trees that
she has been restoring and pruning every year for 13 years now.
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Eat Your Weeds!
Jayne Simmons, farmer and owner of Sister Sage Herbs and Good Food Gardens, will be teaching this introductory herb class. You will learn how to identify and prepare common “weeds” into nutritious and delicious home remedies and tonics. Plants will be available for proper ID, and we will talk about safe harvesting from urban environments as well as ethically in emergency situations in the wild. We will discuss harvesting times, drying methods, and different ways to extract the healing properties from these herbs. You will leave with the recipes to try at home.
Jayne Simmons
Jayne Simmons wants you to grow your own vegetables and make your own home remedies, and generally become more self sufficient. She has been an avid gardener and cook for over 20 years, served on the Board of Directors for Seattle Tilth from 2002 until 2005, and helped to re-create The Longfellow Creek Community Garden in 2008. Jayne lives in West Seattle and owns Sister Sage Herbs, an herb farm and natural remedies company on Vashon Island, and is working towards her own self sufficiency.
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Harvest
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1 PM
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Tasty Ways to Prepare Northwest Greens
Join nutritionist and chef Jennifer Adler to learn how to make peace with dark green leafy vegetables that are so abundant in the Pacific Northwest. We will unlock the magic of such nutritious and robust varieties as kale and chard. Don't be fooled by kale. The massaged kale salad that we will make will change the mind of even the most staunch kale hater. You will also learn the skills to make quick and delicious braised greens
Jennifer Adler
Jennifer Adler M.S., C.N. provides individual and family nutrition counseling at her private practice, Realize Health, and is an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University.
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Big Things Come In Small Packages - Small Space & Container Gardening 101
Think your space is too small for you to produce real food? From backyard plots to windowsill pots, we have information you want about growing your own groceries in small spaces and containers. We'll start with the basics of picking varieties of seeds to suit different living situations and we will provide solutions for the small space gardener on a budget. From seeds to soil and harvest to table, we'll cover a wide range of topics in a fun and interactive format for the small space and container gardener while supplying you with the necessary resources to grow your own groceries.
Shannon and Jason Mullett-Bowlsby
Known together as The Shibaguyz, Shannon & Jason co-author the life-style blog "Here we go! Life with the Shibaguyz…" (http://shibaguyz.com) Shannon is a King County Master Gardener and Jason teaches classes in bread making and cooking with local, seasonal foods. Both are on the boards of Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle and the Longfellow Creek Community Garden as well as being site coordinators for the Longfellow Creek P-Patch. Together, they have launched their new business The Lazy Locavores as edible gardening coaches.
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Edible Landscaping with Fruits, Berries, Herbs & Nuts
Learn simple things you can do to start growing your own fruits, berries, herbs and nuts. The presentation will offer design ideas, hands-on techniques, varieties that do well in the Seattle area, and a resource list to take home. Topics will include edible hedges, herb gardens, espalier trellises, backyard orchards and fruiting vines.
Michael Lockman
Michael Lockman founded WEdesign Inc. in 1995 to offer sustainable design and consultation services to local homeowners. His sustainability skills are hard at work every day, helping to improve the relationship between homeowners and the environment, one garden at a time. A freelance writer and former adjunct professor in Antioch University's Environment and Community program, Michael holds an M.A. in Ecological Design.
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Plate
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2 PM
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The Magic of Preserving Foods
Preserve some of the freshness of summer during the dark days of winter. Learn how to make sauerkraut from the abundance of cabbage and other vegetables in your garden. Fermented foods provide probiotics, which are beneficial for your digestive and immune systems. Probiotic rich food is not only healthy, but inexpensive, incredibly delicious and easy to make. Learn the traditional way of incorporating probiotics into your diet- from your food. This is the perfect way to marry the times of plenty from summertime produce with health and vitality.
Jennifer Adler
Jennifer Adler M.S., C.N. provides individual and family nutrition counseling at her private practice, Realize Health, and is an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University.
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Integrating Edibles into Your Landscape
Are you interested in growing more edible plants but feel that they won't fit into your established ornamental landscape? Edibles do not need to be kept in solitary confinement, but can instead be integrated into your aesthetically attractive landscape. To move you towards harvesting more food off of your land, we'll discuss what to consider in an evaluation of your site, possibilities of edibles for both standard and difficult garden situations, and considerations for plant health, human safety, and resiliency of the local ecosystem.
Laila Suidan
Laila Suidan is a long-time lover of edible gardening who does consulting and landscaping through her business, Down to Earth Landscapes. She is also an environmental educator with the Garden Hotline at Seattle Tilth. She is a graduate of South Seattle Community College's Horticulture program, has a bachelor's degree in Zoology, and is a Certified Arborist
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Victory Gardens, Then and Now
One half a century ago, nearly half of the produce eaten by Americans came from Victory Gardens.
With the example of the Obama's we are returning to a time
when people are replacing their lawns with lettuce, and connection with neighbors to grow food. Come hear from some of the original Victory Gardeners
and others who are currently growing most of their own food.
Panel Discusson
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Pantry
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3 PM
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Getting Started with Worm Bins
Are you interested in turning your kitchen scraps into free, high quality fertilizer for your garden or house plants? Whether you live on a 10 acre farm, a small city lot or in a studio apartment, it's easy to use red wiggly worms to recycle the waste from your dinner table and turn it into black gold. In this workshop I will show you how to get started on worm composting. Start to finish, I'll give you the lowdown on choosing a design, where to buy worms, how to bed, feed and care for your worms, and finally how to harvest the nutrient-rich worm castings.
Carey Thornton
Carey Thornton is focused on food. She is a Garden Educator for Seattle Tilth teaching folks how to grow organic vegetables and make their own compost in an urban environment. She also works for Food $ense, a program of the WSU Extension that teaches nutrition in low-income elementary schools in King County. Carey loves living in West Seattle and being a board member for Community Harvest. Her passion is empowering people to feed themselves well from seed to table- growing healthy food, cooking a fresh and simple meal, then sharing it with friends, family and neighbors.
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Renters Can Grow Groceries Too
Healthy, affordable food is not just for homeowners! Renters need good food too and there are many ways to acquire it.
Lacia Lynne probably grew more food as a renter than she has lately as a homeowner, so come learn ideas you can adapt and use.
You will leave with an assessment of what you really need and some options for your situation.
Lacia Lynne Bailey
Lacia has been growing food since childhood 4H veggie sales and wants to translate what she learned on the farm to urban food for everyone, including renters! As the old saying goes, "You can take the girl out of the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the girl" With her life experiences and a degree in Environmental Engineering, Lacia looks at how the parts of the system work together to create the right abundance for you. Now that miniature dairy goats are legal in Seattle, she is also excited to share the possibilities of these delightful creatures to our home food supply.
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Edible Flowers
Take home from this presentation a handout of edible flowers and a special treat for you and your garden. Sample yummy dishes prepared by Jana using flowers from her backyard and organically grown local nursery's. Walk away with a splendid, simple informed mind and feel free to "tip toe through the tulips" and eat them too!
Jana Sorsen
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Ask the Experts
Here's your chance to get your garden questions answered by a knowledgable panel of experts.
Panel Discussion
Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby, Master Gardener; Sue Mc-Gann, Marra Farms Coordinator; Laila Suidan, Seattle Tilth
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