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April 10, 2010: Massachusetts Organic Gardening Workshop Day

Registration form and online registration: coming soon

10 Locations in Mass (so far):

A) Mattapan
B) South Natick
C) Newbury
D) Darmouth
E) Centerville
F) Barre
G) Winchedon Springs
H) Wendell
I) Chesterfield
J) Monterey

This Spring, just as it comes time to plant the garden, NOFA/Mass presents our third annual Statewide Spring Organic Gardening Day. On April 10, there will be organic gardening workshops in every region of the state (See below). Growing our own food is an excellent way to save money, lessen our carbon footprint, improve our health, and connect with neighbors and nature. Isn't now a good time to learn skills that will help you plant a garden and make it productive throughout the year?

These workshops are all led by experienced gardening educators, and they are intended to meet the tremendous resurgence of energy and action for backyard and community gardening. In addition to explaining and demonstrating some key steps that can empower to you start your own garden, these workshops provide a great opportunity for you to ask questions. Whether you are a complete newcomer to gardening or you just feel that you could use some brushing up on growing skills and concepts, these workshops are for you.

Topics that will be covered at these workshops:

Starting garden beds
Seed Starting
Organic soil fertility

Organic soil amendments
Mulches and cover crops
Weeds, disease and pests

What to plant when
Crop spacing
Succession cropping

Registration: $30. NOFA membership discount: $5. Early registration (by March 27, 2010) discount: $5.
Contact: Ben Grosscup, 413-658-5374. By email, ben.grosscup@nofamass.org; put "April 10" in subject.

List of Organic Gardening Workshops on April 10, 2010

Boston/North Shore

A) City Natives, 30 Edgewater Dr., Mattapan, MA, Time: 9am-12pm
- Jean-Claude Bourrut of Serving Ourselves Farm manages a vocational organic farm program for homeless men and women.

B) Natick Community Organic Farm (NCOF), 117 Eliot St., South Natick, Time: 10am-12pm
- Lynda Simkins is director and farm manager of NCOF, where she does food-based education.

C) First Parish Church of Newbury, 20 High Rd., Newbury, MA, Time: 9am-12pm
- Rita Wollmering and Brooke Finn run the The HERB FARMacy in Salisbury, MA, where they grow both vegetables and herbs.

Southeast Mass. and Cape Cod

D) Brix Bounty Farm, 858 Tucker Road, Dartmouth MA, Time: 9am-12pm - Derek Christianson is farm manager of Brix Bounty Farm, where he is striving to grow nutrient dense vegetable crops through biological fertility treatments.

E) Home of Peter and Cindy Olotka, 56 Richards Road, Time: 9am-12pm - Peter and Cindy are longtime home gardeners and green house growers.

Central Mass.

F) Many Hands Organic Farm, 411 Sheldon Rd, Barre, MA, Time: 9am-12pm - Julie Rawson is co-owner of Many Hands Organic Farm, and executive director of NOFA/Mass. She specializes in soil fertility, season extension, and intensive planting systems.

G) Noonday Farm, 96 Windsor Road, Winchendon Springs, MA, Time: 9am-12pm - Beth Ingham has been farming organically for 18 years, using a no till raised bed garden system, and a greenhouse for multi-season growing.

Western Mass.

H) Home of Sharon Gensler, 87 Bullard Pasture Road, Wendell, MA, Time: 9am-12pm - Sharon is a longtime homesteader and organic growing educator.

I) Crabapple Farm, 100 Bryant Street, Chesterfield, MA, Time: 9am-12pm - Tevis Robertson-Goldberg runs Crabapple Farm, a diversified CSA.

J) Monterey Community Gardens at the Monterey Community Center, Time: 9am-12pm - Ruth Green owns Green Arts Garden Design and is a Certified Horticulturalist and Accredited Organic Land Care Professional in Monterey, Massachusetts.

For archives of the 2009 Massachusetts Organic Gardening Workshop Day, see here.

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