Building Urban Gardens Training

Submitted by Julie Samuels

Learn to garden with nature -- ecologically, inexpensively, and creatively -- in this exciting 6-week, hands-on course

Saturdays, 9:30am-12:30pm

January 28 - March 3, 2012

at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N Central Park Drive, Chicago

at the Conservatory Stop on the Green Line

Sessions include:

  • Planning and Designing Your Ecological / Organic Garden
  • Using Composting to Build Healthy Soil
  • Vegetables for your Beautiful, Edible Garden
  • Perennials and Herbs for Diversity and Flavor
  • Insects and Weeds:  A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place
  • Container Gardening, Design Roundtable & Potluck

Sponsored by Openlands.  See the brochure for details and registration information.