Practical
Steps to Planning Your Garden
Led by Nancy
Turner and Dave Cain
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WORKSHOP LOCATION UPDATE
The Workshop will be held as planned at Nancy and
Dave's, but we will be inside of the Yurt since it seems
that it will be pretty cold and white out in the garden.
Click here for directions. |
A Seven Days for the Earth 2007 Event
Wednesday, April 18 6:00pm to 7:30pm
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Did you go crazy ordering seeds this year and now
you don't know where to start with planting them?
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Have you been wanting to start a veggie garden, but
just don't know where to begin?
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Are you already feeling pressure that you are getting
a late start on your garden this year?
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Do you usually think about starting your garden when
the first real veggies of the season start coming and
and then you realize you are too late?
Come to this garden workshop and get rid of that "garden
anxiety."
 Nancy and Dave will demonstrate how they keep all this
stuff straight so you can start your garden in an
organized manner and keep track of the information you
need from year to year. They get tremendous pleasure
from gardening and love to share their enthusiasm with
others.
Their garden work includes a seed starting/transplant
strategy, raised beds, crop rotation, season extension,
composting, and a lot of trial and error. Having started
small, they have expanded their garden and their efforts
bit-by-bit each year, learning from experience and other
community gardeners.
 Joining Nancy and Dave are Jeremy Gulley and Sally
Kendall who have been gardening commercially at
Rootswork for the past two seasons and have much to
offer from their experience.
We will start out by learning about starting your own
seedlings vs. buying transplants, learning which veggies
you want to self-seed, and learn about the best way to
start your transplants. Then we will see what Nancy and
Dave have already started in their garden in their cold
frames. From there we will get a look at their raised
bed gardens and learn about what they will be doing in
the next several weeks to assure a bountiful harvest
this coming summer.
 Please come with your own tips and ideas to share with
others.
- When: Wednesday, April 18th 6:00pm to 7:30pm
- Where: Nancy and Dave's at 715 East Road, Waitsfield
(at the intersection of Common, Joslin Hill. North,
and East Roads - go east on East Road and look for
the mailbox with the bike frame on the left hand
side of the road)
For those who don't know...Nancy and Dave live in a
Yurt
that they built themselves four years ago. If you want a
tour of the Yurt or you want to walk around their
gardens before the formal program, please come at 5:30.
Nancy was on The Dinner Hour on February 27th talking
about their garden planning. Click
here to download that show.
Download Nancy and Dave's Garden Plan
As an Excel Worksheet that can be modified to suit your
gardening needs <download>
As a Adobe PDF format (best if you don't have MS Excel)
<download>
Immediately following the workshop, many of us will be
heading down to The Big Picture to see the documentary
Fed Up followed by a panel discussion about agriculture
in Vermont.
There is No Charge for this Event! |
