Creating Healthy, Water-efficient Edible Gardens: Two FREE edible gardening workshops in one day! Learn gardening techniques you can use at home. Register for one workshop or both.

WORKSHOP 1

9 to 11 a.m. – Edible Gardening the River-Friendly Way: Presented by Gail Pothour U.C. Cooperative Extension Master Gardener in Sacramento County (Classroom-style presentation)

River-Friendly Landscaping (RFL) is an integrated approach to the design, construction, and maintenance of landscapes to support the integrity of one of California’s key ecosystems — the Sacramento River watershed.

Based on the RFL seven principles, during this presentation Gail will teach you how to grow healthy, nutritious food for your family and the community by fostering healthy soil, using efficient watering methods for edibles, selecting what to plant and when, choosing the right edible plants for our climate and conditions, managing those garden pests that like delicious edibles as much as you, and more!

11:00 to 11:30 a.m. – Break. Bring a snack or brown-bag lunch. Beverages will be provided.

WORKSHOP 2

11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Into the Garden: Productive Edible Gardens Start with Healthy Soil and Efficient Water Use (Demonstrations and hands-on learning by doing outside at the community garden) Workshop led by licensed landscape contractor and RFL Green Gardener Professional Jessy Parker.

Starting from the ground up, you’ll learn how to evaluate your soil and ways to support soil life because healthy soil promotes healthy plants. Irrigation system components and options for the efficient delivery and use of water will be demonstrated. Participants will learn how to assemble and connect pipes and fittings, direct and place low-volume emitters in planting beds and boxes, and ways to manage your garden’s water.

What to Bring/Wear: Hat, sunscreen, close-toed shoes, garden gloves, camp/folding chair (limited seating at the garden), snack or brown-bag lunch.

Garden Plots / Boxes – Now that these workshops have helped you to “learn and do,” are you interested in “sharing” by signing up to have a garden plot or box at the Antelope Springs Community Garden? If so, please talk with garden coordinators on Saturday, April 27 — the day of these workshops.