SUMMER WORKSHOP 1: PLANNING YOUR FAMILY GARDEN
Saturday, June 21st
1 to 5pm at Sidney's garden in Hancock Park
Open to kids and their parents at any and all levels of experience, this one day workshop introduces the basic elements of planning a garden to suit your family's specific needs and tastes. Some of the skills that will be taught to help build and maintain a healthy garden include: tilling and amending, preparing a bed for planting, how to plant seedlings as well as simple and intuitive ideas on how to design the look of your garden according to what grows well with other companion plants. Each family will take home an overview design plan that the kids and adults will have created and illustrated together that whimsically articulates their very own garden-to-be.
$150 / family
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SUMMER WORKSHOP 2: STARTING FROM SEED
Saturday, June 28th
1 to 5pm at Sidney's garden in Hancock Park
Open to kids and their parents at any and all levels of experience, this one day workshop offers instruction on basic germination techniques for flowers and vegetable plants. We will go over some very basic and kid-friendly botanical science and then work with mixing different several types of soil that are specific to various types of seeds. Each family will take home a flat of 16 seedlings that they have planted themselves in biodegradable and transplantable containers.
$150 / family
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SUMMER WORKSHOP 3: LOVING YOUR GARDEN
Sunday, June 29th
1 to 5pm at Sidney's garden in Hancock Park
Open to kids and their parents at any and all levels of experience, this one day workshop teaches basic transplanting skills, how to hand-mix organic plant food that is specific to the needs of your plants and fun and engaging ways to encourage and include the whole family in the care of the garden. Each family will take home an established plant in a pot that can be transplanted into their own garden at home to care for as a family, a jar of hand-mixed organic plant food and a jar of organic, non-toxic pest control spray.
$150 / family
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