Learn about how to correctly harvest and the different ways to cook a variety of vegetables from the garden through lecture and hands on cooking demos.
Teacher
As the Brain Food Garden Manager, Lyssa Houser is excited to grow the Brainfood Youth Garden as an extension of Brainfood’s food-based youth development programming. Lyssa’s background in food education includes experience developing and implementing intergenerational gardening programming as the Garden and Cooking Educator for the DC Department of Parks and Recreation. She also has experience leading garden education efforts through her work as the Director of Education for Wangari Gardens, where she teaches public workshops, supervises the planning and maintenance of the public gardens, and leads solar-cooked community lunches. She has also worked with Common Good City Farm, Old City Farm and Guild, Solar Household Energy, Inc, and Love & Carrots
Don’t have a lot of space for a traditional in-ground garden but want to grow your own fresh vegetables? Do you see the prices of containers at gardening stores and have sticker shock? Fear not! At this workshop, we will show you how you can grow plenty of healthy produce for you and your family in even the smallest of spaces for a fraction of the cost. Come and learn how to start a 100sq foot garden and considerations you need to make when gardening only in containers. Get your creative juices flowing as we help show you how ANYTHING can be used as a container and start growing!
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.
Get a jump on the season, save money, grow what you want and maximize production! Class will cover everything from lights to soils to seed starting strategies to get you started for 2016. Instructor: Gordon Clark, Montgomery Victory Gardens
