summer 2016 classes & camps get all the dirt! seattletilth.org learn Map Page 2 About Seattle Tilth page 3 Veggie Gardening page 4 Urban Livestock page 5 Kitchen page 6 Permaculture & Sustainable Landscapes page 7 Summer Garden & Farm Camps page 8 Garden Educator Workshops page 9 Kids & Youth page 10 Registration Form page 11 Classes by Date page 12 21 ACRES FARM Seattle Tilth’s McAULIFFE PARK Upcoming JOIN US! SEATTLE TILTH SEATTLE OFFICE, GOOD YOUTH Events SHEPHERD CENTER GARDEN GARDEN WORKS Chicken Coop & Urban Farm Tour, Saturday, July 16 Throughout Seattle Harvest Fair, Saturday, August 6 Seattle Meridian Park seattletilth.org BRADNER GARDENS PARK Visit us RAINIER BEACH LEARNING at our GARDEN RAINIER BEACH URBAN FARM gardens & AND WETLANDS farms! community learning garden educational farm volunteer opportunity classes for adults Auburn SEATTLE TILTH children’s garden programs FARM WORKS summer youth camp Learning Gardens & Class Locations Bradner Gardens Park (BGP) Rainier Beach Learning Garden (RBLG) Seattle Tilth Farm Works 1730 Bradner Place S, Seattle 4800 S Henderson, Seattle 17601 SE Lake Moneysmith Rd, Auburn Good Shepherd Center (GSC) Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Seattle Youth Garden Works 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle Wetlands (RBUFW) At the Center for Urban Horticulture 5513 S Cloverdale St, Seattle 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle McAuliffe Park (MP) 10824 NE 116th St, Kirkland 2 About Seattle Tilth Seattle Tilth, Tilth Producers and Cascade Harvest Coalition have merged! Our mission is to build an ecologically sound, economically viable and socially equitable food system. Our education programs focus on the entire food system: earth, farm garden, market and kitchen. Garden Education Food Hub Learn how to grow food with us! From adult classes to kids We grew 66,000 pounds of food in 2015 at our educational camps to school tours, we have been teaching people of all ages farms and gardens. We partnered with local farmers to feed to grow food organically for nearly four decades. people through our CSA, farmers markets, food banks, subsidized Farm Education Good Food Bags, restaurants and grocery stores. Consider joining our CSA! With Farm Walks and an annual conference, we offer farmer to farmer education around Washington State. Immigrants, refugees DIG IN, GET INVOLVED! and low-income individuals develop small farm businesses through Seattle Tilth Farm Works. Underserved youth learn job and leadership skills through Seattle Youth Garden Works. Garden Hotline FarmLink connects people seeking farmland with landowners. Ask us your garden questions! The Garden Hotline offers Environmental Education individualized solutions to your garden problems. (206) 633-0224 // [email protected] Gain expertise in composting and recycling… then teach others! Join training programs in Seattle, South King County and Volunteering Eastside. Or participate in wetlands restoration at Rainier Beach Gain skills while giving back to the community when you join ABOUT TILTH SEATTLE Urban Farm. 1700 other volunteers in our gardens and farms, events, classes, Cooking & Nutrition Education camps and office! seattletilth.org/get-involved/volunteer We bring people together to cook and share meals in their own neighborhoods – at schools, community centers and churches. Support Find out about Community Kitchens Northwest on our website. All gifts are welcome and appreciated! Members receive Puget Sound Fresh discounts on conferences and classes, invitations to exclusive member events, a bi-monthly print newsletter and a vote for our Discover what’s in season and where to get it with our Board of Directors. multimedia guide to Puget Sound farms, produce and products. seattletilth.org/support Visit pugetsoundfresh.org. 3 Veggie Gardening Eating fresh veggies and herbs that you grow yourself is a thrill! Learn how to get the best results using organic methods – healthy for you and the environment. Grow Great Tomatoes • Saturday, May 7; 10 a.m.-noon, GSC Get ready to grow the biggest and tastiest tomatoes, peppers and other heat-loving crops! Fresh tomatoes and peppers are some of the most delicious veggies, but they can be tricky to grow in our cool summers. This class will teach you everything you need to know to grow the biggest, earliest and most flavorful summer crops. Learn about which varieties do well in our maritime climate, when to plant, and season extension techniques to maximize heat. Other topics include fertilization, watering, harvesting trellising and pruning. $36 INDIVIDUALS, $25 SEATTLE TILTH MEMBERS, Container Gardening 101 Outsmart Pests: Organic $54 HOUSEHOLD PRICE FOR TWO ADULTS • Wednesday, May 18; 6-8 p.m., GSC Pest Management* You don’t need a backyard to grow your • Saturday, May 21; 2-4 p.m., BGP own food! Container gardening is great for Now that your garden is growing, all you have beginners, apartment dwellers and anyone to do is sit back and watch, right? But wait, looking to add extra space or variety to their what’s eating holes in your broccoli? What garden. This class will cover the benefits of should be done about all of those weeds? Why growing in containers, choosing soil, containers are your tomatoes brown? Come learn how to and locations. Learn about considerations for avoid chemicals by using organic practices to growing crops like herbs, salads, small fruits manage pest bugs, weeds and diseases. Learn and summer veggies and ongoing maintenance the art and science of attracting beneficial bugs of your container garden. This class is lecture- to pollinate your crops and eat harmful insects Drip Irrigation for Home based with participatory demonstration in the that damage your veggies. In this class we Gardeners* learning garden. will discuss the Integrated Pest Management • Saturday, May 14; 10 a.m.-noon, GSC $36 INDIVIDUALS, $25 SEATTLE TILTH MEMBERS, (IPM) system and what it means for organic Learn how easy it is to water your garden with $54 HOUSEHOLD PRICE FOR TWO ADULTS gardeners, meet some common garden pests resource-efficient drip irrigation! Even though and weeds and safe solutions for managing our Pacific Northwest maritime climate is them, go on a bug hunt in the garden to known for its rain, during the droughty summer identify good and bad bugs, and get resources we still need to water our food crops, thirsty to help you continue problem solving pests in ornamentals and container gardens. This class your own backyard. will cover the basics of drip irrigation system $36 INDIVIDUALS, $25 SEATTLE TILTH MEMBERS, design and use in a home garden, including $54 HOUSEHOLD PRICE FOR TWO ADULTS water requirements, zones, parts, installation, *$65 FOR BOTH SECRETS OF COMPANION scheduling, winterizing, troubleshooting and PLANTING (Page 7) AND ORGANIC PEST soaker hoses. This class pairs well with Water MANAGEMENT Catchment: Harvest the Rain offered later in the afternoon. Sign up for both classes for a full day of learning and receive a discount!* Support $36 INDIVIDUALS, $25 SEATTLE TILTH MEMBERS, $54 HOUSEHOLD PRICE FOR TWO ADULTS Seattle Tilth with a *$65 FOR BOTH DRIP IRRIGATION FOR HOME membership gift GARDENERS AND WATER CATCHMENT: and receive discounts HARVEST THE RAIN (PAGE 7) on classes today! CLASSES: VEGGIE CLASSES: GARDENING 4 For more details and registration, visit seattletilth.org. Advance payment and registration required. Urban Livestock Taking care of animals and keeping them healthy requires knowledge and preparation. Take a class and gain a solid foundation. You will love the fresh, delicious, home-grown products and caring for your new friends! Raise City Goats Beekeeping 301: Harvest CSI Bees: WildBeeSense • Saturday, June 4; 10 a.m.-noon, private Honey and Winterize Your Biodiversity Project residence in Seattle Hive • Saturday, July 30; 9-11:30 a.m., BGP Learn what it takes to keep miniature goats for • Saturday, July 23; 10 a.m.-noon, GSC Join Elias Bloom, a WSU pollinator milk or fiber. Jennie Grant, author of City Goats • Saturday, August 13; 10 a.m.-noon, GSC entomologist, in our citizen science initiative and founder of the Goat Justice League, will Learn how to harvest honey and prepare your that explores the relationship between plants, show you around her goat yard so you can see beehives for winter. This third installment of pollinators and the tools we can use to save the gregarious “kids” in action! Participants our Backyard Beekeeping series is perfect for these precious organisms. Class attendees will will leave the class with the basic information beginner beekeepers working on their first hives receive a free guide on how to identify and needed to decide if being an urban goat-herder as well as intermediate beekeepers looking to observe wild bees, hands-on instruction in is right for you. Learn the basics of keeping gain more skills. Topics will include late summer pollinator identification and monitoring, and the mini-goats including selecting breeds, city and fall hive management, queen evaluation skills necessary to join a growing network of regulations, feeding, breeding, milking and and colony manipulation, what you need to local bee observers that seek to conserve and keeping your herd healthy. do to get your hives through winter, feeding, restore bees in Washington State. $36 INDIVIDUALS, $25 SEATTLE TILTH MEMBERS, harvesting honey and equipment storage. FREE, PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED $54 HOUSEHOLD PRICE FOR TWO ADULTS $36 INDIVIDUALS, $25 SEATTLE TILTH MEMBERS, $54 HOUSEHOLD PRICE FOR TWO ADULTS CLASSES: URBAN LIVESTOCK | VEGGIE GARDENING | LIVESTOCK URBAN CLASSES: Start Your Fall and Winter Garden • Saturday, July 9; 10 a.m.-noon, GSC • Thursday, July 28; 6:30-8:30 p.m., BGP • Saturday, August 20; 10 a.m.-noon, MP Mid-summer is the perfect time to start planning your fall and winter garden so that you can keep eating fresh vegetables all year. For fall and winter harvests, it’s important to get seeds and starts into the garden early enough to allow them growth while the sun is still shining.