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1F103S

Backyard and Container Growing

November 15th

6:30 – 9:30 pm - Wednesday, Nov 15th

LOCATION : TBA

Nanaimo / Cedar,

Vancouver Island

Instructor :

Christina Nikolic

COURSE SUMMARY

Welcome to Backyard & Container Growing, an evening workshop with Christina Nikolic of Stewardship Landscape Design. Low cost solutions and starter kits to grow your own food anywhere! Learn to create a farmer's market on your front doorstep and a grocery store on your windowsill. Plants have special nutritional and moisture needs when grown in pots. Learn simple tips like turning food scraps into fertilizer and how to use organic matter to keep soil moist.

Christina lives and works as a self-employed landscape designer and environmental educator in Victoria, BC. She obtained her university degree in Landscape Architecture in Germany and has added certificates as Master Composter and Organic Landscape Manager since coming to Canada ten years ago. Creating healthy and balanced garden ecosystems, and teaching people how to build and maintain them, is her passion as well as her profession. (Check back here for any updates to do with descriptions, time changes, social announcements & other course details.)

COST

Public: $35

Registered Earth Masters Student: $25

COURSE INCLUDES (Optional):

Student Potluck Dinner

5 – 6 pm - Wednesday, Nov 15th

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Design Skills for Permaculture Living (Three & Five-day VERY Intensive versions)

9 am - 9:30 pm, November 15 - 19th, varying times.

Brown Bag Lunch & Potluck Suppers!

Instructor: Christina Nikolic

Designing & Drafting Intro (Half-day Workshop)

10:00 am – 2:00 pm - Wednesday, Nov 15th – (See also 9am – Meet & Greet)

~ Christina Nikolic (10:30 am- 1:30pm)

Designing & Drafting: Hands-on (Half-day Workshop)

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Thursday, Nov 16th

~ Christina Nikolic (9 am - noon)

Permaconcepts (Half-day Workshop)

2 – 6 pm - Wednesday, Nov 15th

~ Christina Nikolic (2 - 5 pm)

(Open potluck discussion: 5 - 6 pm)

Understanding Healthy Soils (Half-day Workshop)

1 - 4 pm - Thursday, Nov 16th

~ Christina Nikolic

Smart Plants: Perma-Uses (Half-day Workshop)

1 – 5 pm - Friday, Nov. 17th

~ Students present their Model - 1 – 2 pm

~ Carol Wagner (2 – 5 pm)

Design Your Own Dream Garden (Evening Workshop)

6:30 – 9:30 pm - Friday, Nov. 17th

Includes Class presentation of student Model

~ Carol Wagner

Display of Student Designs

9 am - 12 noon, Saturday, Nov. 18th

Tales from Off the Grid… Living the Life (Full-Day Workshop)

9 – 5 pm - Saturday, Nov 18th, Brown Bag Lunch!

~ Mandala Kowal, Carol Wagner, Jan Steinman & guests

(9:00 - Students Welcome – Intern Facilitator / Greeting)

10 – 11:30 – Jan Steinman – Lifestyle Examples & Options - Overview

11:30 – 1:00 - Carol Wagner – Living the Dream – Reasons & Reflections

1:30 – 5:00 – Mandala Kowal – Self-reliance in the Sierra Madre Mountains

Off the Grid Living (Six-day Intensive)

9 am – 9:30 pm - Saturday, Nov 18th – Friday, Nov 24th, session times vary

~ Mandala Kowal

OTHER DETAILS

Check back here for additional information that may be added later, like student-posted hikes, discussion topics, design-team & study buddies, and teacher office hours or paid public consulting times.

Outside Resources

To be announced.