preregistration required

Grow Your Own! 9 month Course - from soil to seed to table
Nourish your body and our soil.

-Build soil
-Grow vegetables, herbs and edible flowers
-Harvest
-Recipes
-Ferments and Preservation
-Seed saving and more.

Savor the best food you'll ever eat - your own.
http://handmadegardenspdx.com/year-round-harvest-course/
Seeds and Plants, Mentorship, Classes, Community Building

Classes begin February 20.
At NE 45th and Going, Cully neighborhood.
Scholarships, payment plans and work trade available.
www.handmadegardenspdx.com

Pollinators
Sunday February 28th, 1pm - 4pm
NE Portland, Vernon neighborhood
 
Pollinators serve an important role in our local food web. More specifically, we need them in order for our fruit trees to produce bountiful fruit sets! In this hands-on workshop, you will gain a basic understanding of bee-keeping, learn about the life of bees, how to construct mason bee habitats, and which plants are favorable for attracting pollinators. For the hands-on portion of this workshop, we'll be cleaning mason bee cocoons and assembling mason bee habitats that will be installed at our 2016 Community Orchard sites.  Additionally, every participant will get to take home cocoons, paper tubes for starter bee homes, and pollinator friendly flower seeds.

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About the instructors:

Jen Davis lives in Portland with her two kids and husband.  She is an artist, writer, filmmaker and urban farmer.  She grows 16 kinds of fruit, and nearly one half of her family's vegetable supply.  She also keeps ducks, and has raised Mason bees for ten years.  She teaches Mason bee workshops from home and at schools throughout the region.

 Madelyn Morris is a Portland-based educator and co-owns Mickelberry Gardens, LLC with her husband. The start-up company is developing a product line based on locally harvested herbs, raw honey, beeswax, and other hive products from the couple's steadily growing honeybee apiary in southeast Portland - where humane, ethical, and organic beekeeping methods are always utilized. Madelyn is happy to share her enthusiasm for honeybees and other pollinating insects, and promotes deepening our relationship with these fascinating and helpful creatures. www.mickelberrygardens.com

 The location address and other details will be provided after you register.

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Espalier Pruning & Training Workshop with Portland Fruit Tree Project
Saturday January 30th, 10am - 1pm
SE Portland, Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood

This fun workshop will be an opportunity to learn what it takes to establish a proper espalier training system for your fruit tree and what pruning cuts you need to make to maintain that structure. You'll also be able to gain some practice pruning on espaliered trees under skilled supervision at this event.

To attend this workshop we ask that you already have a basic understanding of pruning. If you do not have a basic understanding of pruning, please attend one of our Winter Pruning workshops.

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About the instructor: 

Ben Gibson has been working with trees since he was a skidder operator as a teenager. Since 2008, he has been working in the urban arboriculture field. He has taken on the roles of ISA Certified Climbing Arborist, Crew Lead, and Salesman. In April 2013, he started his own small business as "The Tree Nerd." This allows his to focus on the beauty and long term health of trees. He specializes in ornamental pruning of all kinds, and is happy to share his passion and knowledge of trees with any who will listen.

The location address and other details will be provided after you register.

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Weeds - control them before they control you!  Join us for an after-work exploration of common garden and landscape weeds along with some other notorious plant invaders of the region.  Gain an understanding of how these aggressive plants take over - and how to get the upper hand controlling their spread without turning to synthetic herbicides.

Workshop is free and open to anyone.  Help us plan ahead. Register online at: http://emswcd.org/workshops

Native plants attract birds, butterflies, and beneficial insects, and require less regular maintenance once established.  Our free workshops are taught by landscape professionals and are designed to help you choose native plants that are well-suited for the unique conditions of your yard.

Workshop is free and open to anyone.  Help us plan ahead.  Register online at: http://emswcd.org/ workshops/