2024 Foundations in Organic Vegetable Gardening: A 6-Part Series in Growing Your Own Food (Additional Tuesday Session)

The original series beginning Thursday February 22 is now full and has a waitlist. Due to this high demand, we are offering an additional session of this class on Tuesday evenings, starting February 27. For more details, please see below.

This six session extended course has been designed to provide you with a thorough background in organic gardening principles, soil building techniques, site planning/garden design, seasonal crop selection, and much more - all at a great bundled price! In addition to the four in-class presentations, this series includes two Wasatch Community Garden Campus tours during the growing season to observe various seasonal gardening topics and discuss your own garden challenges with our instructor.  The tours will also include healthy garden snacks that you can make easily at home with basic ingredients!

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Session 1, Soil Night: Tuesday February 27,  6:30pm-8:30pm

Overview of organic gardening and regenerative agriculture, understanding soil, and garden site preparation

Session 2, Crop Night: Tuesday, March 5 6:30pm-8:30pm

 Crop terminology, warm vs. cool season crops, and choosing and planting seeds and transplants

Session 3, Growing Night: Tuesday March 12,  6:30pm-8:30pm

Intensive planting methods, vertical gardening, succession planting, and companion planting

Session 4, Garden Challenges Night: Tuesday March 19,  6:30pm-8:30pm

Evaluating sun, soil, water and air within your garden and how it affects pests

Session 5, Spring Garden Tour and Q&A: Saturday April 20, 2pm-4pm

Starting seeds in soil blocks, taking soil samples, and opportunity to discuss issues affecting your own garden

Session 6, Summer Garden Tour and Q&A: Saturday August 24, 10am-12pm

Trellising options, pest diagnostics basics, and opportunity to discuss issues affecting your own garden