OKT will not be offering community food growing classes this spring. We are focusing on our Program for Growth at MLK Jr. Leadership Academy and the Southeast Area FArmers’ Market. If you’d like learn how to grow your own food, attend these free classes at Baxter Community Center. Thank you Baxter!
How to Plan Your Food Garden 1
6 to 8 p.m. at Garfield Park Lodge
334 Burton St. SE, Grand Rapids 49507
Growing food within the urban landscape presents its own challenges but yields wonderful benefits. Every household that grows its own food not only creates a healthier diet for its members (and neighbors) but also helps build an alternative to the profit-driven industrial food system that has devastated our health and the environment.
Our Kitchen Table is offering a series of four food gardening classes starting tonight and repeating in June. Classes meet from 6 to 8 p.m. at Garfield Park Lodge, 334 Burton St. SE, 49507
The classes are free and open to the public. Donations are welcome from those who not being served by our other programs.
If you would like even more support for your food garden, OKT is now recruiting 20 residential food gardeners for the 2016 growing season. OKT has free gardening resources for you if you:
Resources include organic food plants, seeds, soil, containers, soil resting and a food garden coach.
While OKT has been thinking about food gardens all winter — and started growing organic food starter plants in February — now is the time for the rest of us to start planning, plotting and conspiring to grow our own alternative to the industrial food system. For starters, OKT is now recruiting residential food gardeners for the 2016 growing season. OKT has free gardening resources for you if you:
Gardening Classes start in April!
Baxter Community Center is offering its food gardening series in April:
April 6: Garden Basics 1
April 13: Garden Basics 2
April 20: Soil Health/Composting
April 27: Seed Saving
These classes take place on Wednesdays from 6-7:30 p.m. at Baxter Community Center 935 Baxter St. (entrance on Bemis). They are free (but donations are appreciated). For nformation, email anna, ajohnson@baxtercommunitycenter.org.
Our Kitchen Table will be offering two food justice classes in April.
April 18 : Food Policy for Food Justice Class
April 25 : Diagramming Your Food System Class
And, OKT will begin its free food gardening classes in May:
May 2: How to Plan Your Food Garden 1
May 9: How to Plan Your Food Garden 2
May 16: Composting & Vermiculture
May 23: How to Save Seeds
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