Organic Gardening  

Gardening in "harmony with Mother Earth" is a hot topic these days with a greater awareness of our inter-connectedness and our need for clean water, air and earth. Learn everything you will need to know to be successful with organic gardening. Diana will share tips and "tricks of the trade" on getting started, building and maintaining rich soil quality, managing pests & diseases, choosing plants for an organic garden, zeroscape techniques, and obtaining free organic fertilizers and mulches. Each participant will receive six free organic plants and six organic heirloom seeds.

Instructor: Diane Mendelsohn, Purdue Master Gardener; owner, Mother Earth Organics; thirty years floral design experience.

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2.5 hours

Room: AI001, Management Training Center

Fee: $39 (includes plants, seeds and parking; no additional discounts)

Using Herbs in the Kitchen
(formerly Herb Gardening )

Do you love using herbs?. . .I do too! Growing and using a wide variety of herbs will add much to the quality of your life.

Learn to use herbs in the kitchen for peach mango salsa with fresh cilantro sprinkled on top and herbal teas made with pineapple sage, mints, or chamomile herbs. Explore the use of medicinal herbs. Some go easily into salads, others are made into salves, and a few, such as echinacea, are made into alcohol based tinctures.

Each participant will be able to choose three herb starter plants and seed packets. Examples will be shared for tasty gourmet dishes including herbs as a condiment.

Instructor: Diane Mendelsohn; see Organic Gardening.

Sorry, this class is no longer available

Room: AI001, Management Training Center

Fee: $39 (includes plants, seeds and parking; no additional discounts)