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Citizen Gardener Course with Dick Pierce (#16)

Austin, TX

Citizen Gardener Course with Dick Pierce (#16)

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Want to learn about Austin’s unique growing season(s), climate, soils, plants, and water resources?
Want to raise safe, nutritious food for your family, and your children to know and enjoy gardening?
Don’t have a lot of time, money, patience, or space…but want food and want it to work, now?

What will you 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 It,…Go Home and Do It:. Saturday AM workshops include fun outdoor activities with a great group. Schedule coincides with our fall planting season.

The Fall Garden – Plant in September – Harvest through November
• Late August - September is the planting time for most vegetables in Austin’s unique Fall Gardening season
• Grow/harvest until late November – early December (and beyond).
• Fall provides great weather to be active and outdoors. Help add to your family’s well-being, nutrition, your exercise, and Austin’s food movement and local food supply – become a “Foodie”


Details
Course Fee is $30 for two hands-on classes and one evening discussion. 
 Please bring cash or check made out to "Sustainable Food Center" to the 1st class.
$10 will be refunded if you complete 10 volunteers hours at one of our Citizen Gardener Partner Garden (list available on website).
• Check the Citizen Gardener website for further details and other course dates and send questions to citizengardener08@gmail.com

Instructor: Dick Pierce

Three classes:

Saturday morning, August 28 from 8:00am - 12:00pm, Bahá'í Faith of Austin, 2215 E. M. Franklin Ave, Austin, TX 78723

Wednesday evening, September 1 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Bahá'í Faith of Austin, 2215 E. M. Franklin Ave, Austin, TX 78723

Saturday morning, September 4 from 8:00am - 12:00pm, Bahá'í Faith of Austin, 2215 E. M. Franklin Ave, Austin, TX 78723

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Bahá'í Faith of Austin
2215 E. M. Franklin Ave
Austin, TX 78723

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Citizen Gardener



Citizen Garden offers 10 hours of class instruction and 10 hours of apprentice with a more seasoned gardener and then you become an official Citizen Gardener.