Learn to Garden Like a Pro (2024)
Event description
These workshops are a 'go to whoa' guide to home gardening where Rod distills his secrets from years of professional organic market gardening. Garden soil, style, site, layout, planning for 365/yr harvest, seasons, seeds, seedlings, transplanting, direct seeding, irrigation, crop rotation, biology, fertility, green manures, mulch, crop protection, pests, weeds, diseases, tools, structures, harvest, storage, etc, etc... It's all there in our fun and practical workshops.
Why would you come? Maybe you want a home garden to enhance your food security, but aren't sure where to start. We'll give you a step by step plan...
Or you'd like to get your kids into gardening. We'll show you how to give them the success that will inspire them...
Or maybe you've started a backyard patch, but things aren't going as good as you'd like. We'll give you tips and tricks to get it cranking...
Struggling with your health? Maybe the answers could be found in your garden.
Or maybe you just want to learn all our organic gardening secrets so you can use them for yourself and be a blessing to your family and community. No worries, that's what we plan to do anyway!
And we are so confident that you will not only learn what you need to become a super successful gardener but have a barrel of fun doing it, that we offer you the first workshop for FREE!
Our 8 part workshop will have you gardening like a pro and feeding your family from your own garden 365 days of the year! Each workshop builds on the previous, and is a topical monthly guide to all things garden.
Our aim is to help you and your kids become homegrown gardening heroes as we mentor you month by month for 8 months toward a productive year round harvest.
Sunday 10th March - HomeGrown Gardening #1 (FREE workshop)
THE CONDUCTOR - Garden Site, style, size, first steps...
Sunday 14th April - HomeGrown Gardening #2
YOUR SUCCESS INSPIRES - Planning for year round harvest, seeds, seedlings...
Sunday 12th May - HomeGrown Gardening #3
OBSERVATION THE KEY - Soils (physical, chemical, biological), garden beds...
Monday 10th June- HomeGrown Gardening #4
SMALL ATTENTIONS OFTEN - Irrigation, pests…
Sunday 14th July - HomeGrown Gardening #5
BE THEN DO - Weeds, plant diseases, crop rotation...
Sunday 15th Sept. - HomeGrown Gardening #6
THE FACTS OF THE MATTER - Harvest, post harvest, crop protection...
Sunday 13th Oct. - HomeGrown Gardening #7
DISCIPLINE - Trees - home orchards to syntropic...
Sunday 10th Nov. - HomeGrown Gardening #8
MAKE IT SUSTAINABLE - Continuity, tools, economics...
Cost per Workshop (#2-8): $65/family
Cost for all Workshops: $455
Book all 8 workshops before March 3 & use the EARLYBIRD promo code to get your discount.
Children are welcome to join in or play near by.
The first 3 bookings (from the local area) for all 8 workshops get a bonus of an hour of Rod's time in their own garden. Put him to work or just ask for all the advice you need in your situation. Invite as many friends as you like to join your personal tutorial!
So get your green (or brown!) thumbs ready for an epic gardening journey as we dive into 8 monthly workshops where you'll learn to garden like a pro in 2024