Classes
We are charging a minimum $5 fee for all classes to discourage no-shows. To register and pay the fee you follow the registration link after the class description.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, our classes will be offered on-line using a cloud-based service, WebEx. You will be sent an email containing a link that will allow you to join the online class ten minutes before the session begins. To assure that the class is not interrupted with unwanted noise, we ask that you mute your microphone until you wish to ask a question or make a comment at the end of the class. Since this is the first time we are attempting to hold classes online, we ask for your understanding and goodwill as we undertake this adventure.
Starting your own Vegetable Seedlings
Were you were not able to find seedlings for that special variety that you wanted to grow last year? Or, if available, they were not organically grown? or unhealthy looking? or over-priced? You then thought you should grow you own seedlings, but did not know how to start. If so, this class is for you. This hands-on class will cover the basics of seed starting (how and when to do so) and seed sources (best local and catalogue companies), then quickly move on to sowing seeds provided by Project Grow (or by students), and finally to transplanting seedlings. These seedlings will be at different stages of growth to show students what they look like as they develop, as well as provide them with transplanting material. Students will then take home all that they worked on in class.
Class will be taught by enthusiastic and experienced gardeners Marcella Trautman and Kirk Jones.
Please note the class runs 3 hours
Class size is limited to 12. Pre-registration is required. Class fee: $10. Register here. No drop-ins.
Planting and Growing Annual Flowers - the blooming truth
This class focuses on eight annual flowers that can be direct seeded outdoors to produce flowers that year. Half are frost tolerant and can be planted as soon as the gardens open and the other four should be planted after all danger of frost is past. All make good cut flowers.
Students will receive 8 seed packets containing 20 to 50 seeds of each variety, along with planting and care instructions. The eight flowers are:
larkspur, nigella, bachelor button, calendula
zinnia, marigold, cosmos, tithonia (Mexican sunflower)
Instructor is Kirk Jones.
Registration fee: $10. Register here. Class limit: 10. Please check the website to read about any changes to the course [eg: time, location].
Tips and Techniques 2: Planting Your Vegetable Garden
Experienced Project Grow gardeners, many of them master gardeners and composters, will share tips and techniques that have helped them to garden successfully. If you are a novice gardener, or even an experienced one, attend this class to learn how to garden more effectively and efficiently in 2016.
Topics will range widely, to cover problems often encountered by gardeners at the start of the season, and will include, but are not limited to, the following: preparing beds for planting, choosing the right tool for the task at hand, amending the soil, decoding seeding and planting instructions, selecting appropriate staking methods and materials, using row covers effectively, watering wisely, preventing weeds, and the like. Class will be open to questions and individual problems.
Registration is required. Walk-ins are welcome.
Weedy Lawn and Garden Salad
Have you been throwing Chenopodium album onto the compost heap all this time?! That’s lambsquarters - spinach’s wildly nutritious cousin. Weeding the garden becomes a delight when you realize that so many “weeds” are actually superfoods! Join Shawn Severance and the wild food foragers to learn about all sorts of garden weeds that can impart delicious flavor and nutrition to your spring salads. Gardeners, please bring your herbs and greens! We will forage the wild greens and make a Gardener meets Forager salad for all to share. In partnership with Project Grow and Will Forage for Food.
Shawn Severance is the Parks Naturalist at Washtenaw County Parks & Recreation
Please register here. Fee: $0. Walk-ins welcome.
Vermiculture for Youth Educators
This offering is designed specifically for K-5 classroom educators. Jesse Raudenbush of Starr Valley Farms will be sharing tips and tricks on how to make and set up your own classroom worm bin, care and maintenance for your worms, and multiple methods for hands-on classroom investigation and discussion.
Registration fee: $5. Register now . The class is open to the public, and walk-ins are welcome. Cash only. Please check the website to read about any changes to the course [eg: time, location].
Tips and Techniques 3: Maintaining Your Vegetable Garden
THIS CLASS IS CANCELLED
The same panel of expert gardeners - Joet Reoma and Marcella Trautmann - will turn their attention to the problems that beset gardeners when the heat, drought or wet, pests and weeds of mid-season can discourage even the hardiest of gardeners. Intended for the novice gardener, solutions will be explored to ameliorate these difficult situations.
Registration fee: $5. Registration is required. Walk-ins are welcome.
Please check the website to read about any changes to the course [eg: time, location].
