January 27
Gardening course to be offered in RumfordGardening course to be offered in Rumford
Article from Lewiston Sun Journal:
Published on Friday, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:12 am | Last updated on Thursday, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:10 pm
RUMFORD — To help teachers and other community members have successful gardens, whether at school or job sites, the Oxford County Cooperative Extension will offer School Gardening 101: A Garden Primer.
Preregistration is under way for the free five-week course that starts Feb. 29. Classes will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays at RSU 10′s Mountain Valley High School in Rumford.
“This course is for people who either run school garden classes or community gardens, so it’s helping them have successful gardens,” Barbara Murphy, extension educator, said Thursday in Paris.
Gardening success depends on a basic understanding of soil, pests and diseases, and crop choices. But school and community gardens face the additional challenge of volunteer management, fundraising and keeping the garden growing through summer, Murphy said.
“This is more for the nuts and bolts of getting schools and community gardens over the hurdles, like the real challenges of having a school or community garden,” she said.
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Eden Project offers gardening tips at Truro Library
Article from BBC News:
27 January 2012 Last updated at 01:25 ET
The workshops will include tips for growing vegetables in small containers
Gardening advice is being offered to green-fingered enthusiasts living in Cornwall.
The Eden Project has arranged a series of one-hour weekly workshops at Truro Community Library.
They include techniques on containers, composting, maintaining allotments and growing windowsill plants.
The indoor classes run three times a day every Friday until 2 March and each session costs £8.50, which includes the plant and material.
Inclusive activity
The Eden Trust has been working with the community library to help create a community garden in the city.
The workshops have been designed to help the community learn basic gardening skills enabling them to also create their own gardens at home regardless of space.
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