Gardening Twilight Workshop  June 29th, 6  - 8 pm

Steve Walach will give a guided tour of the Friends Academy garden with a running commentary about the Academy’s strategy of triple-cropping, including a fertility plan plus handouts for crop rotations. Participants will practice with various tools, especially those not generally used by home gardeners. By June 29th the garden should be fully planted with the second crop rotation. Although by late June Friends will not be using row cover, it will be beneficial for participants to take a stab at setting up a bed by inserting hoops and overlaying Agribon row cover — and securing it. 


Steve Walach teaches English and organic gardening at Friends Academy. He also regularly presents garden workshops at NOFA conferences and several other venues. Over the past 20 years he has grown vegetable crops in Miami, Florida and New England. Steve has a fairly large backyard garden, but school gardens are his primary focus. The Friends Academy school garden is set on one-eleventh of an acre. For the past three years, it yielded more than 5000 pounds of produce each year. 2014 was their best year at 5951 pounds, which is a rate of more than 65000 lbs/acre.

Fees:
Beginning Farmers (10 years or less in industry) : $5.00
SEMAP Members: $15.00
Non-SEMAP Members: $20.00

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We have someone from the Cape interested in this workshop, however, she cannot drive after dark. If you are also from the area, or just interested in helping carpool, please let me know at kmurray@semaponline.org. Thank you.