Seeding the Garden of Gardeners
Get 10 hours of instruction, apprentice for 10 hours with a more seasoned gardener, and become an official Citizen Gardener.
Citizen Gardener List of Volunteer Opportunities
Listing of Partners or participants for the ten hours requirement of the new student. click here
Interested in having volunteers help in your community garden? Use this form to send us details and we'll review it and let you know when you've been added.
Students should enter your volunteer hours using this form.
Interested in having volunteers help in your community garden? Use this form to send us details and we'll review it and let you know when you've been added.
Students should enter your volunteer hours using this form.
CG CONTACT INFO
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS about the program or about classes send an inquiry to citizengardener08@gmail.com
TO RECEIVE INFORMATION on upcoming courses and specific postings by CG, please complete the form provided by Edible Austin/Citizen Gardener: click here
TO RECEIVE INFORMATION on upcoming courses and specific postings by CG, please complete the form provided by Edible Austin/Citizen Gardener: click here
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Plan to come to the Local Food Pot-Luck and Graduation Celebration
Great News, Great News, Great News!
Everyone's invited to the Local Food Pot-Luck and Graduation Celebration for this Fall's Citizen Gardeners and Permaculture Designers
It will be at the Barr Mansion on Thursday , December 3rd form 6:30 - 10:30 PM
Please plan to attend, invite/bring a friend, and conjure up a great main dish, side dish, or salad (6-8 servings) from Local Food ingredients, including those from your own garden. This is the first, biggest, best and most fun Local Food event of the Holiday Season.
RSVP at http://fall2009localpotluckandgraduation.eventbrite.com/.
If you interested in carpooling to the event, check out the carpooling discussion in our forum.
Everyone's invited to the Local Food Pot-Luck and Graduation Celebration for this Fall's Citizen Gardeners and Permaculture Designers
It will be at the Barr Mansion on Thursday , December 3rd form 6:30 - 10:30 PM
Please plan to attend, invite/bring a friend, and conjure up a great main dish, side dish, or salad (6-8 servings) from Local Food ingredients, including those from your own garden. This is the first, biggest, best and most fun Local Food event of the Holiday Season.
RSVP at http://fall2009localpotluckandgraduation.eventbrite.com/.
If you interested in carpooling to the event, check out the carpooling discussion in our forum.
Get Ready for Winter/Spring classes
Back by popular demand with almost 200 graduates and new Austin area gardeners...............
[Winter-]Spring 2010 Citizen Gardener Courses - 5 of them - start on Jan 17 and run through mid-March.Back by popular demand - it's a great course and you know everyone is gardening these days - and with nearly 200 graduates growing great vegetables, getting super exercise and nutrition, while trimming expenses, and loving it..
Two Sat. AM's and a Wed. evening is 10 hours of instruction. It's hands-on, learning by doing it - site design, make a raised bed, plant a square-foot garden, build a compost pile, learn about Austin climate, soil, planting times; build/plant a mulch bed, turn the compost, see demo of trellis, a little shade-/green-house, rain water collection - all the information/experience you need to design, build, plant, and enjoy your own back-/front-yard garden this Spring. Yup, only in Austin does the planting season start in mid-January and run until mid March - the same time block as these CG Classes.
Here is the line-up:
-CG #10 - Sat.AM, Jan 16; Wed Evening, Jan 20, 7:-8:30; Sat AM, Jan 23 -
-CG #11 - Sat.AM, Jan 30, Wed Evening, Feb 3 , Sat AM, Feb 6 -
-CG #12 - Sat AM, Feb 13, Wed Evening, Feb 17, Sat AM, Feb 20 -
-CG #13 - Sat AM, Feb 27, Wed Evening, Mar 3, Sat Am, Mar 6 -
-CG #14 - Sat AM, Mar 13, Wed Evening, Mar 17 , Sat AM, Mar 20 -
Locations will be determined soon - planning for 1 each in Central, East, Near South, Far South, Austin, Cedar Park
The Events page with more specific information will be updated soon.
[Winter-]Spring 2010 Citizen Gardener Courses - 5 of them - start on Jan 17 and run through mid-March.Back by popular demand - it's a great course and you know everyone is gardening these days - and with nearly 200 graduates growing great vegetables, getting super exercise and nutrition, while trimming expenses, and loving it..
Two Sat. AM's and a Wed. evening is 10 hours of instruction. It's hands-on, learning by doing it - site design, make a raised bed, plant a square-foot garden, build a compost pile, learn about Austin climate, soil, planting times; build/plant a mulch bed, turn the compost, see demo of trellis, a little shade-/green-house, rain water collection - all the information/experience you need to design, build, plant, and enjoy your own back-/front-yard garden this Spring. Yup, only in Austin does the planting season start in mid-January and run until mid March - the same time block as these CG Classes.
Here is the line-up:
-CG #10 - Sat.AM, Jan 16; Wed Evening, Jan 20, 7:-8:30; Sat AM, Jan 23 -
-CG #11 - Sat.AM, Jan 30, Wed Evening, Feb 3 , Sat AM, Feb 6 -
-CG #12 - Sat AM, Feb 13, Wed Evening, Feb 17, Sat AM, Feb 20 -
-CG #13 - Sat AM, Feb 27, Wed Evening, Mar 3, Sat Am, Mar 6 -
-CG #14 - Sat AM, Mar 13, Wed Evening, Mar 17 , Sat AM, Mar 20 -
Locations will be determined soon - planning for 1 each in Central, East, Near South, Far South, Austin, Cedar Park
The Events page with more specific information will be updated soon.
What is Citizen Gardener?
Citizen Gardener is new program that began in August of 2008, designed to engage more Austin area residents in growing food locally.
How it works: The interested student signs up for different educational opportunities totaling ten hours of gardening course work. This training comes from a seasoned educator or master gardener who provides a foundation for the new student to give back to a Partner or participant ten hours of volunteer/apprentice work. Upon completion of the hours, the student is not only awarded the distinction of being a "Citizen Gardener", but has been given the tools to create their own garden.
The Reward: This process returns a cycle of gifting to the planet and others... a reciprocating, blooming and fruitful gift.
How it works: The interested student signs up for different educational opportunities totaling ten hours of gardening course work. This training comes from a seasoned educator or master gardener who provides a foundation for the new student to give back to a Partner or participant ten hours of volunteer/apprentice work. Upon completion of the hours, the student is not only awarded the distinction of being a "Citizen Gardener", but has been given the tools to create their own garden.
The Reward: This process returns a cycle of gifting to the planet and others... a reciprocating, blooming and fruitful gift.
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