NOFA NH Organic Gardening Series – Small Scale Gardening Techniques to Build Self-Sustainability
May 11 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
| $20Are you tending a garden for the first time, or have you been growing food for many years? The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire Organic Gardening Workshop Series offers instruction for new and experienced home growers seeking to build skills to feed themselves, their families and develop self-sufficiency. Knowledgeable speakers from across the Northeast share their expertise with informative workshops throughout the spring. Learn about how to improve a home growing system or start something new.
The 2024 gardening series is a mix of four online workshops on Tuesday evenings from 4/16-5/7 and one in person workshop on Saturday, 5/11. Register for the full online series or individual workshops. The in-person workshop (in NH) must be registered for separately and has a capacity of 20 people. NOFA members receive a 25% discount for all gardening series workshops. Visit the NOFA-NH website for more details and to register (https://www.nofanh.org/gardeningseries).
Program Pricing & Registration
$12 per online workshop
$40 for all online workshops (if you register at one time)
$20 for in person workshop (must register for separately)
Online workshops will be recorded and available for two months
Integrating growing and storing techniques oriented to long term benefits can help you create a system that improves your self-sustainability. Techniques like crop rotation and seed saving can help you improve soil quality, reduce financial burdens, increase crop accessibility and yield, and more. Join Sibongile of Sycamore Community Garden as she shares some techniques to give you the tools to help improve your small-scale growing systems. Information shared will open your mind to growing in a way that sustains you and your household for years to come.
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Sibongile Ndlovu is Zimbabwean by birth and a teacher by profession. She taught in Zimbabwe primary schools where the ratio was one teacher to forty five children. She grew up in a family where gardening was the priority and her parents tried to be as organic as possible in their garden. She values being a Sycamore gardener because there is so much opportunity in learning different techniques in gardening among diverse cultures. The Garden provides residents of the Concord area, particularly new Americans and those with limited incomes, the opportunity to grow organically-farmed food on land accessible by public transportation. The Garden also aims to increase social capital, cultural understanding, empathy through the communal act of gardening, and provide educational opportunities in partnership with NHTI.
