OLLI Presents: Growing Your Own Food: Organic Gardening for Beginners

This class attempts to give confidence to people who like to dig in the dirt and who want to try out a vegetable garden, or even to those who already garden at home and wish to discover what others have tried and found successful. Joanne describes her own experiences over the years, both bitter and sweet, and includes time for class questions, comments, tales of successes or failures, and how to enjoy, interpret, and learn from them. Suggested readings and teacher-made handouts are available on various topics, such as taking time in fall and spring preparing plots and amending soils and defending your hard work against garden blights and pests. This class is for those who love nature and being outdoors.