Year long urban agriculture/edible gardening workshops
at The Center for Urban Ecology at Humber Arboretum, hosted The Greener Side.
The 3 season, 15 session course is broken down into 3 separate course registrations each comprising 5, 3 hour classes held every 2 weeks at Humber College.
All classes will be hosted atThe Center for Urban Ecology’s new demonstration edible garden. Week 1 will show the garden as it is now, a lawn (VIDEO LINK).
Each class, students will receive hands-on experience and theoretical knowledge covering the relevant activities of the specific time of year. By the end of the year you will have been guided through the growing season of an Toronto edible garden, from it’s first days of planning and planting, to it’s final days of clean up and review.
The main advantage of learning in an environment like this is that you learn hands-on, on site, and in real time. You can take what you learned that very week and apply it to your own garden the very next day.
The Spring Session, starting April 21, 2010 at 5:30 pm, covers Site, Soil and Plant Selection.
- planning, sketching and site layout (mid April)
- plant selection (end April)
- soil conditions (mid May)
- container gardening (end May)
- timeline plantings (mid June)
The Summer Session, starting June 23, 2010 at 5:30 pm, covers Organic Plant Health Care, Garden Maintenance and Harvesting.
- watering systems (end June)
- insect management (mid July)
- disease management (end July)
- harvesting (mid Aug)
- organic plant health (end Aug)
The Fall Session, starting Sept 15, 2010 at 5:30 pm covers Composting, Seed Saving, Season Extension and Garden Clean Up/Review.
- indoor-outdoor composting (mid Sept)
- seed saving (end Sept)
- season extension (mid Oct)
- putting the garden to rest (end Oct)
- season review and planning for the following year (mid Nov)
Inquiries will be received at info@thegreenerside.ca.
Registration is through the Center for Urban Ecology, naturecentre@humber.ca at Humber Arboretum
Each session is $225 plus $50 for materials.
Recommended coursebook is $30.
Enrollment is limited to 20 people per session.
The course runs every 2 weeks except the first week (April 21), which is followed one week after with the second class (April 28). We want to give people enough time to hear about the courses before they start, and for various reasons were not able to promote the course up til now…..
