“How to Use Greenhouses and Cold Frames to Extend Your Growing Season,” a class taught by Rhonda Barbieri and Friends will take place on Sunday, March 6 from 12 to 4 p.m. at La Campesina Project on Hawkins Road.
The class will include a tour of La Campesina, a look at appropriate infrastructure and technologies that can be applied to any level of gardening and farming.
- Starting seeds in the greenhouse or cold frame
- Advantages over direct seeding outdoors
- Potting soils 101
- Sourcing seeds
- Basic seeding techniques
- “Working” the calendar & moon phases
- Watering and plant care
- When to move plants outdoors
- Garden Plans, Techniques, and Management
- Raised bed formation
- Row crop techniques
- Companion planting basics
- Succession transplanting and seeding for a continual harvest
And last but not least…we’ll show you how to build a quick and inexpensive cold frame or mini-greenhouse so you can grow your own starts and extend your growing season!
This workshop is sponsored by Food Masters. Questions? Contact Learner Limbach: foodmasters.orcas@gmail.com
The cost is $20 – Scholarships and/or trade opportunities available by inquiry.
Please note that Food Masters pays its instructors $100 per half-day class. This is a token payment considering the amount of work that goes into each class. As a recently formed grassroots organization, we depend on your donations to make this modest teacher compensation possible. Additional donations go toward a fund to establish a permanent Seed Bank on Orcas Island, a priority project for Food Masters in 2011.
Available for purchase from Rhonda will be sturdy 8 foot tall trellis netting, re-useable clips, lengths of untreated sisal, organic potato & fingerling seeds, project grown veggie seeds, potted perennials & natives.
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