07 Jan Citizen Gardener- Grow Your Food!

It’s planting season which means it’s time for Austin area Citizen Gardner courses to gear up again!

In less than a year almost 200 new gardeners have been trained, over 1,000 hours of community service generated and dozens and dozens of new yard, community, and other forms of urban gardens have been installed! You can join this incredible movement this season!

Get 10 hours of instruction, apprentice for 10 hours with a more seasoned gardener, and become an official Citizen Gardener.

What you will 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 I,…Go Home and Do It:. Saturday AM workshops and Wednesday evening discussions mix up outdoor and indoor time with a great group. Schedule coincides with our winter/spring planting season.

Details
• Course Fee is $50 for two hands-on classes and one evening discussion, or FREE with a pledge of ten hours of volunteer time to a Citizen Gardener Garden Partner (list available on website). Material fee is $20.  Please bring cash or check made out to Dick Pierce to 1st class.
• A new session (3 classes) will starts nearly every Saturday.
• Check the Citizen Gardener website for details and other course dates and send questions to citizengardener08@gmail.com

There are several dates to choose from! You MUST RSVP/register yourself via one of these links:

=> CG #10 Get details, dates, and register here: http://cg10.eventbrite.com

=> CG #11 Get details, dates, and register here: http://cg11.eventbrite.com

=> CG #12 Get details, dates, and register here: http://cg12.eventbrite.com

=> CG #13 Get details, dates, and register here: http://cg13.eventbrite.com

=> CG #14 Get details, dates, and register here: http://cg14.eventbrite.com

Let’s get more food growing in Austin!!