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Urban Gardening: Companion Planting and Space Saving Techniques

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Come visit Pittsfield’s Robbins Ave Community Garden and learn how to maximize space in your small garden, raised bed or container garden.

Instructor Julia Lemieux will teach the fundamentals of companion planting as well as inter-planting of green manure crops for weed control and improved soil health. This introductory workshop will involve hands on straight forward examples of different methods and techniques to improve your garden’s output. Participants will work to create their own companion planted container to take home along with handouts detailing each topic discussed.

Agriculture has been a part of Julia’s life since her childhood, growing up on a farm in rural Western, MA. She attended the University of Massachusetts and worked on several vegetable and livestock farms and as a landscaper. After having her first child, Julia founded Windy Ridge Farm, a small organic produce farm and plant nursery in Hawley, MA. Their focus is on edible and medicinal seedlings and small shrubs. The Farm attends the Downtown Pittsfield, Lanesboro and Winthrop farmer’s markets and offers a wholesale program for plants.

Julia is employed by the Berkshire Community Action Council as Pittsfield’s City Gardener. In this position, she maintains 6 community and school gardens in the City (including the Robbins Ave. Community Garden). She provides educational programming to a wide range of child and adult community members in an effort to increase food security and self sufficiency in the area.

* A limited number of scholarships are available to make this program accessible for all who wish to participate. Please email alchemy.initiative@gmail.com to inquire.

Urban Gardening Workshop info:
When: May 30th, 3-5pm
Where: Robbins Ave. Community Garden (154 Robbins Ave., Pittsfield)
Cost: $30

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