Educational Workshop Schedule for Evergreen Brickworks

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GROWING FROM SEED: 11am-12pm

• Connie Hunter from Master Gardeners of Ontario

Learn about the basics of seeds, how people grow from seeds, and how to transplant seedlings into a bountiful food garden. Get the tricks of the trade on how to best care for them and what to do when you’re ready to move them outdoors.

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MAXIMIZE YOUR CONTAINER GARDEN: 12pm-1pm

• Zora Ignjatovic and Johanne Daoust

Whether you’re new to gardening or an experienced green thumb, find out how to maximize production with sub-irrigation container gardening that is easy, saves water and workload, and produces a greater yield.

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HEIRLOOM SEEDS & SEED SAVING: 1pm-2pm

• Vicki Emlaw of Vicki’s Veggies

Why are heirloom seeds important? Learn about these special varieties of vegetables, and the techniques that gardeners and farmers everywhere have employed to save seeds to grow the same heirloom variety again from year to year. Interact with some Ontario seeds and learn what to do to save seeds to grow in your own yardto

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COLDFRAMING : OUTDOOR GROWING IN THE COLD MONTHS: 2pm-3pm

• Kyla Dixon-Muir of Riverdale Meadow Community Garden

Learn how to apply Season Extension Techniques to get as much as a two-month head-start on growing foods outdoors this spring; and learn how to design and build Cold Frames and Raised Beds, for your own garden. Get inspired to keep foods growing far longer into this fall, and right through the winter, to achieve the earliest possible harvests next spring.

GARDENING WITH KIDS: 2pm-3pm

• Stephen Biggs

Get your kids stoked about gardening, because it really can be fun for them. At this drop-in event your kids will enjoy guessing the cool plants and critters on the screen; will learn how easy it is to make a flower pot from recycled newspaper; and can take home seeds for a kid-scale veggie they can grow at home.

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CHOCOSOIL: 3pm-4pm

• '''Michael Saaco of Chocosol"

Learn all about composting .

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