Free Resources for Starting Your Garden
Feb 9th, 2009 | By Mayda | Category: New Farmers, Victory GardensHere are couple of good resources for starting Community Gardens. These are also useful if you are starting your own personal or market garden.
The Get Green Columbus Community Garden Manual Guide The guide is published by the City of Columbus and has information on getting access to land plots, borrowing tools and other resources to get started.
During February, The Franklin Park Conservatory has a free 2 hour class on starting a community garden:
This FREE educational program is designed to provide gardeners with the information and resources necessary to launch and sustain their community garden. This program is presented as a partnership between the Columbus Foundation, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, and Franklin Park Conservatory.
Classes will be two hours long, with a lecture during the first hour, and the second hour featuring group discussion with current community gardeners. Dates: February 4, 11, 18 & 25
Time: Wednesday evenings, 6-8 p.m.
Cost: Free, with advance registration required.
Binders with hard copies of course materials
will be available for $10.
Class size is limited to 45 participants.
For more information call 645-8733 or visit their website.
