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Hi! I'm new in this group. A while ago I started a mini garden on my tiny balcony. I've planted some tomatoes and herbs. Do you have any suggestions what else I could keep in small containers? :) You can see how my garden is going so far here: http://minifarmbalcony.blogspot.com/
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Ten Steps to Being an Urban Farmer Boot Camp
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Join the Urban Farm team and Urban Farmer Greg Peterson for the new course Ten Steps to Being an Urban Farmer. This course is designed to give you accelerated training in planning, permaculture concepts, and green living. It draws from real world examples to provide a broader sense that greening your life and creating your own Urban Farm is an evolutionary and learning process.
During this course you will:
- Create a step-by-step plan to envision and implement your home and the land around your home into your own Urban Farm.
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Obtain a deeper understanding of concepts such as:
- Site design
- Rain and Greywater harvesting
- Solar aspect and site planning
- Soil health and pest management
- Seed saving and propagation
- How to observe to create change
- Meet and interact with others creating their own Urban Farm.
- Share in an interactive private tour of the Urban Farm and the systems installed there.
- Site visit day so that you can begin to integrate what you are learning.
Greg Peterson and the Urban Farm team will lead you through a thought process to empower you to be an Urban Farmer. Weekly assignments and class interaction will further instill your learning.
The primary goal of this course is to empower you as an aspiring Urban Farmer to move though a thought process in creating a whole systems approach to designing your UrbanFarm.
The Ten Steps to Being an Urban Farmer course is currently being offered at the Urban Farm in Phoenix starting March 5, 2012 and will meet ten evenings and one Saturday over approximately three months. For an additional $100, a student may bring a spouse, partner, parent,or child to work on the same project with.
Bring a Friend for an extra $100
Course cost $699 - $449 early registration discount by Jan 30
or
Pay the full tuition of $699 and bring two friends. Three for the price of one.
Urban Farmer Boot Camp - Class Dates are:
- Monday, March 5, 12, 19, 26
- Saturday, April 14
- Monday, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Available tickets:
- 26 "Early Reg - Urban Farm Boot Camp" tickets
- 20 "Early Reg - Urban Farm Boot Camp + 1" tickets
- 5 "Urban Farm Boot Camp" tickets
- 10 "Urban Farm Boot Camp +1" tickets
