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Grow Your Own Food In-Person Workshop

$349.00

In person workshop Saturday May 20, 2023, at Norris Farmstead in Rockport, WA.

Limited to 50 registrants, this will be an intimate and hands on workshop where you'll learn how to grow a year's worth of food in a backyard setting for your family. From knowing what and how much to grow based on your family size and preference, to maximizing space, plant selection (including fruit and herbs), putting in garden beds, soil health, and more!

This is a jam-packed workshop where you'll leave knowing you will be able to grow healthy sustainable food for yourself and your family. Plus, you'll receive a starter pack of Melissa's family's heirloom Tarheel green pole bean seed. See full workshop description for more detailed information below.

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There's never been a better time to grow an abundance of healthy food in your backyard. In this full day workshop, you'll join Melissa and guest teacher for a full day of jam-packed learning.

You'll discover and learn:

  • Customized growth plan for your fruit, vegetable, and herbal production on your homestead.
  • A personalized plan to grow a year's worth of food based on your family's eating habits and climate.
  • How to analyze your property and yard for the best placements of your crops to get the maximum harvest, based on harnessing the four major microclimates almost every backyard has.
  • How to grow a garden that will feed your family for a full year, without a greenhouse, even in the shorter northern growing climate of the Pacific Northwest.
  • Easy ways to put in a new gardens and build healthy soil without synthetic fertilizers.
  • Planning and optimizing an orchard even if you don't have a lot of property or aren't on your permanent location.
  • Growing elderberries and citrus in a Northern Climate from expert gardener and beekeeper Seth Smith.

Ticket is for one adult and includes a delicious, from-scratch lunch on the farm and a coveted packet of heirloom Tarheel green bean seed that Melissa's family has been seed-saving for over 100 years.

This is a get-your-hands-dirty workshop. You'll be in the garden learning how to maximize growing space and reduce disease in a rainy climate using vertical gardening and companion planting to increase the harvest. There will be a very limited amount of elderberry plants and fruit trees available for purchase.

Workshop will be held rain or shine. All ticket sales are final, no refunds.

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