Ceres Community Project
Garden As Medicine Series
Our Garden as Medicine classes focus on giving you hands-on experience growing healing foods and herbs using sustainable organic gardening practices. Learn practical tips to enrich your diet and your health.
$35/class if you register for one or two classes
$30/class if you register for three or four classes
For questions: hfcc@ceresproject.org
707·829·5833
Gardening in Relationship
April 7 ~ 9 am -12pm
Location: Ceres Community Garden
1005 Gravenstein Highway North
Behind O'Reilly Media
Sebastopol
Gardening is all about relationship- human to plant, plant to pest, soil to microorganism. Working with those relationships instead of against them is the basis of a successful garden. Learn how to get in right relationship: understanding soil, pests, care, timing, water and more.
Beyond Tomatoes
May 5 ~ 9 am -12pm
Location: Ceres Community Garden
1005 Gravenstein Highway North
Behind O'Reilly Media
Sebastopol
This class takes the gardener into designing and planning a garden that provides food year round. It explores the practices of crop rotation, planting from seed, and selecting nutrient-dense crops by going beyond tomatoes and common vegetables to integrating herbs and fruits into the garden.
Full Circle Gardening
July 7 ~ 9 am -12pm
Location: Ceres Community Garden
1005 Gravenstein Highway North
Behind O'Reilly Media
Sebastopol
The garden is a circle, one season creating the seed and nutrients for the next. In this class we will learn to keep foods growing through the winter months, make compost, harvest and save seed and plant a successful fall garden.
Harvesting and Preserving the Harvest
September 8 ~ 9 am -12pm
Location: Ceres Community Project
7531 Bodega Ave
Sebastopol
Preserving your harvest is a gratifying part of gardening. Learn techniques for harvesting and preserving the abundance of produce that comes from a healthy garden including canning, lacto-fermentation, and pickling and dehydration techniques.
Instructors
Sara McCamant
Ceres Garden Coordinator
West County Seed Bank, iGrow organizer
JoEllen DeNicola
Ceres Community Project
Nutrition Director, Organic gardener
For questions or more information:
hfcc@ceresproject.org
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