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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Planning a Vegetable Garden for Beginners

Where: South Presbyterian Church, 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, New York 10522

Date: Sunday, March 25th

Time: 1 - 3 PM

Have you always wanted to grow your own food? Come and learn how, it’s easier than you may think.  

Pauline Schneider, Bronx Botanical Gardens Certified Landscape Designer and life long gardener will go through the steps of planning a veggie garden, from tool selection, site prep, seed/plant selection, sketching out the site, dealing with pests and varmints, to what resources are available to budding new gardeners to help increase your chances of success!

There will be some hands on instruction on how to begin designing your own future garden site, so bring a photograph or sketch and measurements if you have them of the location that your garden may be in.  You will sketch the basic outline of the garden. No previous artistic talent or green thumbs necessary!

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 Presented in cooperation with Roots and Wings.
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  1. UnknownMarch 24, 2012 at 6:38 AM

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  2. UnknownMarch 24, 2012 at 6:40 AM

    Great advice for gardeners on dealing with lead contamination in the garden. From Cornell http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/factsheets/misc/cgandlead.html

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Transition Towns across the globe are quickly addressing the reality of Climate Change, Peak Oil and Economic Decline with creative and positive solutions.
There are over 400 globally and over 106 in the USA.
In the US Transition Westchester is the 106th initiative.
Transition Towns avoid fear based rhetoric, they are committed folks who want to ensure a hopeful and optimistic future for our kids.
Transition Towns are made of dedicated groups of citizens focusing on the life support systems of a community: Food, energy, economy, community
Transition Towns also focus on the arts, music, play and the fun parts of life that create tightly knit societies founded on harmony and trust.