Build your own Landless Garden
Learn how to construct your very own Landless Garden- a garden in a potato sack! With this method you can grow vegetables pretty much anywhere- a stoop, a porch, parking spot - all you need is a 2sq ft space that gets a little sunshine. This is an urban gardening method that is entirely compostable at the end of the season, uses all recycled, and thus low cost, materials, and is easy to construct. Now everyone can grow vegetables, even in the city!
details
- when: saturday, april 16th, 2011, from 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm
- to attend: Please see the info page for more information on attending any of the workshops at the 2011 Boston Skillshare.
- facilitated by: Laurel Valchuis
lesson plan
Watch and participate in a demonstration of how to build a 2 sq ft garden with a burlap bag, 4 sticks, some gravel and soil. Now you can grow your own veggies at home in the city very cheaply and simply!
facilitator experience
Laurel has been Landless Gardening since 2007 since she learned this method in Tanzania. With a deep understanding of the need for sustainable food systems through her current work as an agribusiness consultant, and lack of patience to wait out her community garden's waitlist, Laurel began building Landless Gardens in the South End to give everyone access to gardening space. She hopes to see Landless Gardens sprouting up all over Boston and beyond, transforming previously non-fertile land into productive vegetable gardens.
intended audience
Urbanites who want to garden but have only a little outdoor space