Garden with Cathy

Description

Garden for Food, Medicine, & Habitat

This is a learn-by-doing, hands-on course for anyone who wants to learn how to garden. You will learn how I grow nutrient dense food organically using site-sourced inputs to the soil, how I incorporate volunteer herbs into my garden and herbal products, how my garden has become habitat for birds, bees, and much wildlife, and how I source resources from the forest.

Specific topics include but are not limited to: seed germination, planting by the moon, seedling care, bed preparation, Hugelkultur, composting, sourcing soil resources from the forest and pond, transplanting, companion planting, crop maintenance, harvesting, canning the harvest, wildcrafting, foraging, seed collection, and more.

Open Scheduling That Works for You

In order to make the garden accessible to as many students as possible, I am offering an open schedule. As a result, students are free to schedule 1-2 3hr days/week that work for their schedule. You’ll come and learn gardening skills by doing whatever is happening on the days you’re here.

You Get to Grow Your Own At Home & Weekly Harvest Box

Garden with Cathy doesn’t end here. For instance, students are welcome to take seedlings and some site sourced resources home to their gardens. While able to bring seedlings and resources home to your space, you can grow your own garden in tandem with the class. However, if you are unable to garden at home, harvest a box of produce/herbs from the garden weekly.

Connect With the Communities

Gardening is a way to connect with the community of plants and animals that inhabit and migrate through your space. Learn what is happening in the garden through observation and discover how take cues from the soil, plants and animals in your microbiome.

The open schedule allows students the opportunity for sessions to overlap. This way, you can plan sessions with your friends and make new friends when your schedules overlap with someone new. We’ll all be forging new relationships within our community!

Go With the Flow

The garden is a place to recharge energetically and a place for creative inspiration. I love to explore the flow of student inspired direction, because it’s like idea mycelium network. Someone have an idea, or curiosity around how to make herbal products from the herbs in the garden or wildcrafted from the forest?? I’ll go with the flow, and teach you how to do it. Want to share/exchange recipes? Inspiration to break bread together! We’ll set up an on-site potluck, prepare a meal together, learning new ways to eat what we harvest.  Want to learn how to forage herbs, berries, and mushrooms from this forest? We’ll do it in the right season. Above all, this is not a rigid course, and everybody’s input is welcome.

The Cost??

$160/month gets you 1-2 sessions/week, depending on what works for you.  Sessions are 3+ hrs each. Your month starts upon your first session in the garden. Therefore, if you start on May 15th, your month of opportunity lasts until June 15th. Not local?? No worries, pop a tent on the weekends. Plan your schedule with Cathy personally once enrolled.