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Community Garden Management and Best Practices

This class will focus on a variety of best practices from starting, managing and improving a community garden. We’ll focus on ways to inclusively outreach neighborhoods, different ways to cooperatively manage gardens, explore example bylaws, discuss ways to deal with theft and vandalism and much more.

Teacher
Josh Singer, as the DC Parks and Recreation (DPR) Community Garden Specialist, builds community gardens, urban farms and develops urban Ag. support systems such as an urban garden education series with over 100 urban Ag. classes a year, a garden toolshare, a 4 greenhouse seedling cooperative, and a community compost cooperative network serving over a 1000 active composters. Josh also is the co-founder and executive director of the 501c3 non-profit 3-acre garden park called Wangari Gardens, the founder of the DC Food Recovery Working Group and a co-founder of the DUGnetwork, DC’s Urban Ag and Food Security cooperative Network

Edible Annuals Garden Workshop

Spend an evening going through a gardener’s tour of the Marion Street Intergenerational Garden, a communal edible garden tucked away in Shaw. Check out examples of no-dig gardening, in-ground and raised beds and learn lots of tricks for growing some great summer crops (including vegetables, herbs and native plants.) Come ready with questions and gardening gloves!

Teacher Bio:
Over a decade ago Rebecca was asked if she would like to do a small gardening project with a group of kids in a local community center. From that point on she grew to see urban gardening as a way to combine her interests in art, community participation and everything green. In 2009, Rebecca incorporated City Blossoms with partner Lola Bloom. Since then, City Blossoms has become a leader in kid and community-focused urban agriculture in the area, supporting over 40 green spaces, designing teaching tools and training for organizations such as the Nature Conservancy and FoodCorps, and compiling a bilingual early childhood curriculum, Our First Harvest/Nuestra Primera Cosecha. Rebecca has a BA from Fordham University, an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.