Photograph courtesy of Gateway Greening
If you garden, or want to, and haven't taken advantage of Gateway Greening's Bell Demonstration Garden (3871 Bell), you are really missing out. Year after year, Bell provides community gardeners with seeds, seedlings, perennials, education, and even helps people start new community gardens. Perhaps the best way to get acquainted with Bell is to show up for one of their free Saturday workshops, which are open to the public and designed for a wide range of gardening skill sets.
There are still two months worth of workshops left on the 2012 calendar:
September
1 Fall Cover Crops 8 Harvesting Summer’s Crops 15 Making Your Own Compost 22 Making Your Own Compost 29 Basic Seed Saving
October
6 Basic Seed Saving 13 Soil Amendments 20 Frost and Season Extension
Workshops are held Saturdays from 10 to 11 a.m. And yes, you can just put on your grubbies and show up. If you have questions, shoot an email to GG's community educator, Ryan Barker: ryan@gatewaygreening.org, 314-588-9600 x 106. If you want to get the topic for Saturday workshops delivered to your inbox every week, subscribe to GG's "Bell Bulletin"; you can always stop by ask one of the gardeners in person, too, since Bell is open to the public throughout the week, March through November.
Happy harvesting, composting, seed-saving, and soil-amending!
