Grow Your Own Vegetable Starts

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Growing Gardens
Address: 
5431 Northeast 20th Avenue
Portland, OR 97211
United States
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Tuesday, December 4 6:00pm-8:00pm

Cost: $10-$30 sliding scale donation

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Learn to start healthy seedlings indoors, using low cost methods with big results. The topics covered in this workshop include the materials you'll need to get started, the types of plants that should be started indoors, timing, planting and caring for seedlings, hardening off and using your space efficiently to grow a large quantity of plants. Participants will go home with a planting calendar, a list of resources and a six pack of plant starts.

Presenter Information: Kathy Katz is a local grower who has for the past 25 years been studying small scale/intensive food production models and learning to incorporate them into her own operation. She has spent many years supporting and volunteering for non-profit organizations because she feels it's important to get nutrient dense food to everyone in our community. A longtime contributor to Growing Gardens programs and supporter of their mission to teach the important skill of growing you own food. Currently Kathy is running a small seedling operation, mentoring new gardeners, helping with a few local school gardening projects and working on returning to the small farm her family owns.

Venue: 
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Cost: 
$10-$30 sliding scale donation

Contact Information

Contact Name: 
Rodney Bender
Contact Phone: 
503-284-8420
Contact Email: 
rodney@growing-gardens.org

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