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Citizen Gardener Course with Dick Pierce (#10)

Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 9:00 AM - Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 12:30 PM (CT)

Austin, TX

Citizen Gardener Course with Dick Pierce (#10)

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Event Details

Want to learn about Austin’s unique growing season(s), climate, soils, plants, and water resources?

Want to raise safe, nutritious food for your family, and your children to know and enjoy gardening?

Don’t have a lot of time, money, patience, or space…but want food and want it to work, now?

Interested in adding to your family’s well-being, and nutrition, your exercise, and Austin’s food movement and local food supply?

Consider yourself a “Foodie”?

Get 10 hours of instruction, apprentice for 10 hours with a more seasoned gardener, and become an official Citizen Gardener.

What you will learn
• Basics: Turn your bare ground or Bermuda grass lawn into raised-garden beds – in the right place, with the right soil. Small enough to manage, big enough to provide real food.
• Techniques: Raised beds; soil, mulch, and compost; bio-intensive/square-foot gardening; plant varieties for Central Texas; water management; plant starts, seeds, and propagation; good and bad bugs.
• Do It,…Learn I,…Go Home and Do It:. Saturday AM workshops and Wednesday evening discussions mix up outdoor and indoor time with a great group. Schedule coincides with our winter/spring planting season.


Details
Course Fee is $50 for two hands-on classes and one evening discussion, or FREE with a pledge of ten hours of volunteer time to a Citizen Gardener Garden Partner (list available on website). Material fee is $20
Please bring cash or check made out to Dick Pierce to 1st class.
• A new session (3 classes) will starts nearly every Saturday.
• Check the Citizen Gardener website for details and other course dates and send questions to citizengardener08@gmail.com

Instructor: Dick Pierce

Location: Festival Beach Community Gardens (new) – near cor. Waller & Flores – East of I-35, South of E. Cesar Chavez (1st St.)

Three classes:

Saturday morning, January 16 from 9:00am - 12:03pm

Wedneday evening, January 20 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Saturday morning, January 23 from 9:00am - 12:30pm

When & Where



Festival Beach Community Garden
29 Waller Street
Austin, TX 78702

Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 9:00 AM - Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 12:30 PM (CT)


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Citizen Garden offers 10 hours of class instruction and 10 hours of apprentice with a more seasoned gardener and then you become an official Citizen Gardener.