March 2013
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All classes are an hour long unless otherwise noted
Basics of Seed Starting
with Corina Reynolds
Starting your garden plants from seed can save you money, let you try varieties that are unavailable as starts, and importantly, let you start growing things while it’s still too cold to put them outside. Corina will talk about the economic, social, and biological reasons to save seeds, and give instructions to help make sure your tender seedlings make it to see the spring.
5050 SE STARK • Saturday • March 2 • 11:00am
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What to Do in March in the Veggie Garden
with Donna and Robyn of Your Backyard Farmer
Join Donna and Robyn, of Your Backyard Farmer, for a great refresher on what to do in the veggie garden for the month of March. They will cover topics such as seeding and planting seasonal crops, what to harvest, methods of planting, combating weeds, and organic techniques for dealing with various undesirable pests that might be invading your garden.
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 2 • 11:00-12:30pm
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Seed Starting for Kids
with Gwen Severson of Portland Nursery
In this fun and educational class, kids can learn about how seeds germinate and how (and why) to start plants from seed and care for them. They’ll take home some potted up seeds and instructions for nurturing them. Limit 12 kids (should be accompanied by an adult).
5050 SE STARK • Saturday • March 2 • 1:00pm
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Spring Lawn Care
with Lyle Feilmeier of Collier Arbor Care
Looking for ways to maintain your lawn in a more sustainable way? Join Lyle Feilmeier, of Collier Arbor Care, and learn how to naturally keep a healthy and beautiful lawn. Lyle will go over the seasonal needs of your lawn, the best products to use, and give some great tips for achieving a more sustainable lawn! Lyle Feilmeier is an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist with Collier Arbor Care.
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 2 • 1:00-2:30pm
This class has been cancelled
Intro to Urban Fruit Trees
with Monica Maggio of Core Home Fruit Services LLC
Thinking of growing fruit trees on your urban lot? Learn some great tips and techniques for successfully growing fruit trees with Monica Maggio, of Core Home Fruit Services LLC. Monica will discuss site requirements and preparation, pollination needs, maintenance requirements of different fruits, and how to select a good fruit tree. She will also talk about general care, maintenance, and common pests.
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 3 • 1:00-2:30pm
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Year-Round Veggie Gardening: Beginner
with Polly Gottesman of Pumpkin Ridge Gardens
Polly has been providing vegetables year–round to her CSA subscribers for decades, and her seminar on planning year–round gardens in our area has been a perennially popular one here. Come learn about the best timing, dependable varieties and other tips so you can garden like you eat—l12 months a year. This is the first of two classes, and will present the outlines of four-season gardening in the northwest.
5050 SE STARK • Sunday • March 3 • 1:00pm
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Fruit Tree Pruning Demo
with Monica Maggio, of Core Home Fruit Services LLC
Confused about how to prune your fruit trees? Join Monica Maggio, of Core Home Fruit Services LLC, to learn about the proper pruning techniques, tools and timing to maximize fruit production and increase overall health. She will guide you through the steps of pruning with demonstrations and visuals, and help you gain confidence in making the right cut.
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 3 • 3:00-4:30pm
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Intro to Medicinal Plants in the Garden
with Missy Rohs of Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies
We have medicine growing all around us, from the cracks in the sidewalk to the corners of our gardens! Join Missy Rohs, of Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies, for an introduction into the world of medicinal plants. From culinary herbs to common weeds, she will explore the use of plants and how they can be made into medicine.
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 9 • 11:00-12:30pm
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Naturescaping
with Lora Price of Design With Nature
Learn the principles and practices of Naturescaping with expert Lora Price, of Design With Nature. She will teach you how to create a "nature inspired" back yard that works with nature, not against it, all while saving you time and money! Naturescaping creates habitat for birds, butterflies and bees, helps you reduce water use, decreases stormwater runoff, eliminates the need for chemical garden products, and much more. Lora will also introduce you to various native plants that are both beautiful and perform well in our urban gardens.
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 9 • 1:00-2:30pm
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Spring Containers: Creating and Updating
with Portland Nursery Staff
Start getting creative with container gardening! Learn to refresh and update your existing containers to keep the plants healthy and the design seasonal; meet some wonderful plants for the spring season. Lecture will be followed by hands-on planting of a new container if you choose, bring gloves! $5 materials fee for planting segment (plus the containers and plants you choose).
5050 SE STARK • Saturday • March 9 • 1:00pm
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Vegetable Gardening 101
with Jolie Grindstaff of Portland Nursery
If you are excited to grow your own food but have little to no experience, this is the class for you! Portland Nursery’s Jolie Grindstaff will discuss the basics of site preparation, crop selection based on site elements, planting and care techniques. With her years of experience, Jolie will demystify growing your own food and share her tips and techniques for beginner success!
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 10 • 11:00-12:30pm
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Grow Your Own Mushrooms
with Tony Migas and Ed Foy of the Oregon Mycological Society
Learn how to grow your own mushrooms with members of the Oregon Mycological Society. Tony and Ed will share great tips and techniques for how to successfully grow many different types of mushrooms in the comfort of your own home and garden. The Society will have mushroom starter kits of Oyster, Shiitake, Stropharia, and Hericium mushrooms available for $20.00 each, and plug spawn of Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms for growing on logs available for $10.00/ bag of approximately 100 plugs. User-friendly instructions included. If properly cared for, these kits can provide years of fungal fun, potentially for a lifetime! Pre-order to make sure you get the ones you want by contacting Tony at thefungi@comcast.net or phone/fax at 360-576-8520.
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 10 • 1:00-2:30pm
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Medicinal Plants in the Garden
with Gradey Proctor of the Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies
Join us for a class on the common medicinal plants that are easily grown in Northwest gardens. In fact, some may already be living in your yard! He will discuss the plants’ healing properties and ways in which these garden herbs can be processed for medicine.
5050 SE STARK • Sunday • March 10 • 1:00pm
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Starting Seeds Indoors & Out
with Tim Lanfri of Community Garden Creators
Join Tim Lanfri, of Community Garden Creators, and learn all about seed starting. Tim will suggest the best seeds for starting inside, and those that can be started outside. He will discuss tips and technique for indoor and outdoor seed starting, lighting and fertilizing requirements, hardening off your seedlings, timing of outdoor seed starting, and much more!
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 16 • 11:00am
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Planning & Planting for Year-Round Harvests
with Tim Lanfri of Community Garden Creators
If you are interested in harvesting fresh vegetables every month of the year, this class is for you! Join Tim Lanfri, of Community Garden Creators, to learn great planning and planting techniques for growing food year round! Tim will discuss making a planting plan, timing your plantings, succession planting, fall and winter growing techniques, and how to maximize your harvest without a greenhouse.
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 16 • 1:00pm
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Year-Round Veggie Gardening: Next Steps
with Polly Gottesman of Pumpkin Ridge Gardens
Polly has been providing vegetables year-round to her CSA subscribers for decades, and her seminar on planning year-round gardens in our area has been a perennially popular one here. Come learn about the best timing, dependable varieties and other tips so you can garden like you eat—12 months a year. This second session is for more advanced gardeners, and will delve more deeply into growing under plastic during the winter and methods specifically for unusual overwintering outdoor crops.
5050 SE STARK • Saturday • March 16 • 1:00pm
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Vegetable Gardening 102: Crop Rotation & Companion Planting
with Jolie Grindstaff of Portland Nursery
Take your vegetable garden to the next level. This is a great class for gardeners with a few years under their belt now wanting to dig deeper! Join Portland Nursery’s Jolie Grindstaff and learn the benefits of practicing crop rotation and companion planting for the healthiest, happiest plants possible. Drawing from a decade of gardening experience, Jolie will discuss tips and techniques for crop rotation, great crop combinations and methods for interplanting, and strategize about how to rotate crops in urban garden plots.
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 17 • 11:00-12:30pm
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Make Your Own Outdoor Bonsai
with George Bowman of Portland Nursery
In this workshop you will create and bring home your own outdoor bonsai! Join George Bowman, Store Manager at Portland Nursery-Division, to learn the basics of growing outdoor bonsai. With over 12 years of experience, George will walk you through plant selection, repotting, trimming and training. Please bring hand pruners if you have them. Class limited to 15.
$40 fee covers all materials.
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 17 • 1:00-2:30pm
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Pesticide-free Pest Control
with Glen Andresen of Metro
Discover effective, nontoxic ways to tackle weeds, pests and plant diseases. See how a few simple steps for preventing problems early on can save a lot of work later. Learn the latest techniques for managing problems safely, and find out where to go for reliable information. You can make your yard beautiful and safe for children, pets, wildlife and waterways.
5050 SE STARK • Sunday • March 17 • 1:00pm
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Alpine & Rock Gardens
with Melissa Bierman of Goodness Grows, LLC
Alpine and rock gardens feature extensive use of rocks or stones, along with plants native to rocky or alpine environments. Expert Melissa Bierman of Goodness Grows, LLC will lead you through the basics of this beautiful garden style including site preparation, selection of alpine plants native to our region, and maintenance tips to keep your garden healthy and looking exquisite.
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 23 • 11:00-12:30pm
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Backyard Honey Bees 101
with Brian Lacy of livehoneybees.com
Honeybees can be a wonderful addition to a garden, increasing the productivity of your fruits and veggies, providing animation and music in your flower beds, and of course offering a bit of healthful sweetness to the tally of your garden’s production. Learn to successfully give bees a home at your home. Brian Lacy of livehoneybees.com will cover siting, permitting, the four seasons of bees, as well as harvesting honey, wax, pollen and propolis.
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 23 • 1:00-2:30pm
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Plant Up an Edible Easter Basket
with Maggie Stuckey, author of The Bountiful Container
Celebrate the coming of spring with a lovely container of edible plants and flowers! For those with limited space, for convenience and ease, or just for the beauty of it, putting edibles in containers is a great idea. Maggie is one of our favorite teachers. HANDS ON, $30 materials fee
5050 SE STARK • Saturday • March 23 • 1:00pm
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Small Space Vegetable Gardening
with Jolie Grindstaff of Portland Nursery
Have a desire to grow vegetables? Challenged with a small urban lot, a raised bed, a community garden, a patio or deck? Urban gardeners, this workshop is for you! Portland Nursery’s Jolie Grindstaff, vegetable gardening enthusiast and expert, will help you determine which crops are right for you, lead you through planning, planting and maintaining bountiful edible gardens in the smallest of spaces.
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 24 • 11:00-12:30pm
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Gardening with Native Plants
with Nels Olson
Discover the endless benefits of integrating native plants into the landscape. Horticulturalist Nels Olson will talk about why native plants are so important to our urban landscape, and share some great tips for integrating them into your edible or ornamental garden. He will also discuss some great native plant selections for sun, shade, tricky situations (e.g. wet soils) and small urban lots.
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 24 • 1:00-2:30pm
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Keeping Backyard Chickens
with Pete Porath of Oregon Peeps Unlimited
Chickens make great accomplices in your efforts to produce food in your backyard, adding fertility, eating pests, making eggs, and providing entertainment—all for relatively little effort. Learn how to select breeds that will fill your needs, set up appropriate accommodations, and deal with questions like what to do with a chick that turns out to be a rooster, and how to protect your flock from predators.
5050 SE STARK • Sunday • March 24 • 1:00pm
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Successful Citrus in the Pacific Northwest
with Jim Gilbert of One Green World Nursery
Are you excited to grow citrus but a little unsure of where to start? Come join Jim Gilbert, of One Green World Nursery, and learn how to successfully grow citrus in containers in the Pacific Northwest. He will discuss winter and summer care, lighting requirements, watering, fertilizing and pruning tips. Jim's talk can help bring your citrus into full production!
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 30 • 11:00-12:30pm
CLASS IS CANCELLED
Integrating Edibles
with Marisha Auerbach
You can make your landscape not just beautiful, but productive, too, if you integrate edible plants in your design! Learn to think beyond the separate raised vegetable bed and grow edibles throughout your garden. Expert Marisha Auerbach brings a permaculture approach to design, and can help you think of your home garden as a system itself.
9000 SE DIVISION • Saturday • March 30 • 1:00-3:00pm
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Gardens for Hummingbirds, Butterflies & Bees
with Jolie Grindstaff of Portland Nursery
Portland Nursery’s Jolie Grindstaff shares her experience in attracting these beautiful and beneficial winged creatures to the garden and offers plant ideas and gardening techniques to help your garden buzz to life.
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 31 • 11:00-12:30pm
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Bonsai Techniques: Forests
with George Bowman of Portland Nursery
Through live demonstrations and "trees in training" displays, bonsai expert George Bowman, Store Manager at Portland Nursery-Division, will explore the miniature forest, grove, raft and landscape bonsai styles. He will also discuss proper tree selection, pruning, wiring and potting. Although this class is focused on outdoor bonsai, the styles apply to indoor bonsai as well.
9000 SE DIVISION • Sunday • March 31 • 1:00-2:30pm
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