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Do You Want To Start Your Own Veggie Garden?
NHM's master gardner Florence Nishida explains why we should start our own healthy vegetable garden at home. Fass gardening classes start soon, part of our new and expanded Workshops program!
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Workshops
Sustainable Sundays
If You Plant It, They Will Come!
Sunday, February 26, 2012; 1 pm - 3 pm
From lizards and butterflies to hummingbirds and froghoppers, attracting wildlife to your garden is easy and good for the environment too! Whether you’re designing your yard from the ground up, or just want some quick and easy tips to adapt the yard you already have, this workshop will give you the tools you need to make your yard a habitat for local wildlife.
Members $10, Nonmembers $15. Call (213) 763-3433 or e-mail Karen Ewald or kewald@nhm.org to register.
EarthWorks hosted by TreePeople
Sunday, March 25, 2012; 1 pm - 4 pm
Learn how the earth works to create a more sustainable environment right in your own backyard! Participants learn the “why” and “how” of low-impact, best management practices (BMPs) for their property and receive assessment tools and solutions to implement basic DIY solutions. A variety of incentives, membership discounts and other resources will be provided.
• Mapping water supply and needs
• Creating permeability
• Infiltration pits, berms, and swales
• Turf removal and mulching
• Rain gardens
Free with Museum admission. For more information please go here. E-mail trainings@treepeople.org to RSVP.
Gardening Classes
Learn to Start Your Own Vegetable Garden at Home!
Outside the Butterfly Pavilion learn from Florence Nishida and Araceli Perez-Ocejo, Master Gardeners, how to grow your own vegetable garden. Give your family delicious, nutritious, and convenient fresh food year-round by learning the following gardening techniques:
- Growing organic without pesticides or herbicides
- Creating good soil
- Knowing how much and how often to feed and water
- Starting from seed and transplanting
Where
Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007
When
Sundays: April 15, 22, 29 and May 6; 1pm - 4:30pm
Class Topics
April 15: “Starting Your Garden: Location, Location” / Bad Soil to Good; Making Raised Beds; Essential Tools
April 22: "Planting: From Seed to Plant” / Transplanting; Plant Spacing; Seed-Saving; Growing in Pots
April 29: “Feeding the Soil” / Fertilizer Types, Uses, Signs of Deficiency; Making Good Compost; Worm Composting
May 6: “Best Cultivation Practices” / Watering, Trellising, Feeding, Weeding, Pest Management, Pinching and Pruning
Cost
Members: $25 per class, $80 for all 4 classes in the series
Non-members: $30 per class, $100 for all 4 classes in the series
Discounted to $15 per class, and $50 for all 4 classes in the series for residents of zip codes 90006, 90007, 90008, 90011, 90015, 90016, 90018, 90037, 90062, 90089
Registration
Please call (213) 763-ED4U or e-mail educate@nhm.org for more information.