Design Your Spring Garden for Joy & Ease
Quick-N-DiRTY GARDEN DESIGN

January 14, 1:00 PM EST
Zoom (link sent to you when you register)

Welcome to the second Emory Grove Garden Class of the new year with me, Rachel Economy, ecological edible garden designer & sustainable farming educator. I’m looking forward to planning and designing with y’all! This is my favorite way to get the year off to a good start.

In this workshop, we’ll be going through my favorite, hands-on garden design process. I call it the “Quick-N-Dirty” garden design because it doesn’t take too long to get you from planning to actually digging in the dirt. We’ll identify your core needs & desires for your spring garden, your main challenges or obstacles and how to address those, 3-5 things you’re really excited to grow, and the first three steps you need to take to get started right now. Let’s, as I like to say, get growing!

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Garden Ecology, Strategies for LESS PESTS!

January 7, 1:00 PM EST
Park “Portico” Picnic Tables

Welcome to the first Emory Grove Garden Class of the new year with me, Rachel Economy, ecological edible garden designer & sustainable farming educator. I’m looking forward to planning and designing with y’all! This is my favorite way to get the year off to a good start.

In this workshop, we’ll address the true test of every gardener: pests!

We’ll learn about the ecology of the garden, and how pests come into it. We’ll identify four types of strategies that help keep pests off your crops, so YOU can eat them (and enjoy their beauty). We’ll then go over specific strategies in each of those types, and do an interactive activity that will help you start to plan and scheme for less-pests and more joy in your garden this year.

Note: If the weather forecast changes, I’ll send a zoom link to everyone who is registered, and to the neighborhood email list.

Please register by filling out the form below

This helps me plan class activities by giving an estimate of how many people will be attending, so please register if you know you can come. However, if you realize last-minute that you can come, please still join us!

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As disabled and chronically ill people, we often have to get extremely creative and innovative in designing our lives, filling in the huge gaps in accessibility and occupational support that run rampant in the US medical and social support systems. Yet so often, the moments when we most urgently need this creativity are also the ones in which we feel the most physically or psychologically exhausted. In this workshop, we'll play with a simple design-thinking process that takes you from problem to plan to implementation, so that any time your need is high but your energy is in the tank, you can use this framework to help you more easefully do the revolutionary thing sick and disabled people have been doing for centuries: build the wildly adaptive worlds we need, now. We'll share our own design hacks and collective crip & spoonie wisdom, see what emerges, and leave with design tools / frameworks we can apply right away to our spaces and lives. Come spend your lunch break (virtually) with us!