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Citizen Gardener Course with Dick Peterson & Sandy Brazwell (#15)

Austin, TX

Citizen Gardener Course with Dick Peterson & Sandy Brazwell...

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Citizen Gardener Candidate 3 tickets Free  

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?

What will you 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 It,…Go Home and Do It:. Saturday AM workshops include fun outdoor activities with a great group. Schedule coincides with our fall planting season.

The Fall Garden – Plant in September – Harvest through November
• Late August - September is the planting time for most vegetables in Austin’s unique Fall Gardening season
• Grow/harvest until late November – early December (and beyond).
• Fall provides great weather to be active and outdoors. Help add to your family’s well-being, nutrition, your exercise, and Austin’s food movement and local food supply – become a “Foodie”


Details
Course Fee is $30 for two hands-on classes and one evening discussion. 
 Please bring cash or check made out to "Sustainable Food Center" to the 1st class.
$10 will be refunded if you complete 10 volunteers hours at one of our Citizen Gardener Garden Partner (list available on website).
• Check the Citizen Gardener website for further details and other course dates and send questions to citizengardener08@gmail.com

Instructor: Dick Peterson (Lead) & Sandy Brazwell (assistant)

Three classes:

Saturday morning, August 14 from 8:00am - 12:00pm, Festival Beach Community Garden: Waller & Flores, Austin 78702

Tuesday evening, August 17 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Terrazas Public Library: 1105 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX 78702

Saturday morning, August 21 from 8:00am - 12:00pm, Festival Beach Community Garden: Waller & Flores, Austin 78702

Where



Festival Beach Commun. Garden
Near Cor. of Waller & Flores
E of I-35, S of E Cesar Chavez (1st ST)
Austin, TX 78701

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Citizen Gardener



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.