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Herbs are a traditional source of nutrition and healing. Participants in this class will explore the impact of ancestral plants, sources of materia medica, ethical and sustainable foraging techniques, as well as recipes for building a home apothecary. Participants will engage in on-campus plant walks to discuss bioregional, cultivated, and seasonal plants. Includes hands-on workshops.
Note: (No class on March 23)
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Fee: $180.00
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Instructor: Brenna Pixley
Capacity Remaining: -6
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Dates: 3/9/2023 - 4/20/2023
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Sessions: 7
Days: Th
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Building: KVCC Food Innovation Center
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Fairy Gardens have been cultivated in Ireland, the British Isles, Germany, France, and Scandinavia since druidic times, and are still very popular today in the Celtic regions of Europe. Especially popular in Ireland, fairy gardens serve as passageways that enable fairies to join the human world; they’re also an excellent way to add a bit of whimsy and mystery to your garden. This course teaches you how to design and create your own traditional fairy garden using natural items like cones, acorns, and twigs. You will learn which plants work best in your garden (and which plants fairies prefer!). You will be provided with a pot, soil, gravel, plants, and items to make your garden come to life.
- Fee: $70.00
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Instructor: Leena Mergen
Capacity Remaining: 3
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Dates: 6/17/2023 - 6/17/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: Sa
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Building: KVCC Food Innovation Center
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Intro to Nut Production will help landowners decide if nut production is right for them. We will provide education on various nut varieties that grow in Michigan; walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts and pecans. We will go over their uses, common pests, tools, equipment, and offer a taste test of nuts and value-added products.
- Fee: $40.00
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Instructor: Ken Asmus
Capacity Remaining: 9
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Dates: 5/6/2023 - 5/6/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: Sa
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Building: KVCC Food Innovation Center
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Come join us in learning about growing your own gourmet mushrooms from locally available materials! We will grow oysters, shiitake, winecaps, and more. Students will learn how to procure substrates and create good environments for mushroom growth. We will also discuss how to use coffee grounds and other composted material as substrates for mushroom growth. Some mushroom identification is practiced during this course as well. Come ready to learn about the savory mysteries of fungal farming. Students take home different inoculated mushroom media at the end of each session.
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Fee: $140.00
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Instructor: Lee Arbrogast
Capacity Remaining: -5
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Dates: 3/8/2023 - 3/29/2023
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Sessions: 4
Days: W
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Building: KVCC Food Innovation Center
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Whether you are tending a half-acre, a few raised beds, or some pots on your patio, you can learn how to design your garden to produce an abundant yield of both food and viable seeds for planting next year! In this hands-on workshop, we will examine a variety of garden designs, plant the seed garden at the Food Innovation Center, and workshop participant garden plans. We’ll help you decide which seed crops will do best in your garden and teach you what you need to know to steward those crops to a successful seed harvest.
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Fee: $40.00
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Instructor: Amy Newday, John Edgerton
Capacity Remaining: 0
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Dates: 5/20/2023 - 5/20/2023
Times: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: Sa
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ValleyHUB is a farm, food hub, and education center based at the Food Innovation Center at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. The Urban Farm at ValleyHUB showcases a range of sustainable agricultural practices. The five-acre site includes an indoor grow room, a heated greenhouse, outdoor raised beds, and two passive solar hoophouses. The Food Hub is a licensed food processing facility equipped to produce fresh-cut fruits and vegetables at a range of production scales. Join us on this *FREE* tour to explore our beautiful site, and learn about our programs and practices.
- Fee: $0.00
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Instructor: Hristina Petrovska
Capacity Remaining: 12
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Dates: 6/17/2023 - 6/17/2023
Times: 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: Sa
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Building: KVCC Food Innovation Center
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ValleyHUB is a farm, food hub, and education center based at the Food Innovation Center at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. The Urban Farm at ValleyHUB showcases a range of sustainable agricultural practices. The five-acre site includes an indoor grow room, a heated greenhouse, outdoor raised beds, and two passive solar hoophouses. The Food Hub is a licensed food processing facility equipped to produce fresh-cut fruits and vegetables at a range of production scales. Join us on this *FREE* tour to explore our beautiful site, and learn about our programs and practices.
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Instructor: Hristina Petrovska
Capacity Remaining: 14
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Dates: 5/20/2023 - 5/20/2023
Times: 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: Sa
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Join us in revealing many of the ways to make more food with less from home! In an era of climate change and energy decline, we will benefit from being more involved in producing our own food to ensure access to the most nutritious and life supporting meals. The secret is that it can be fun and easier than you think to care for your family, friends and city’s ecology. Come join us in learning to make simple gardens (indoor and outdoor), planting perennial food crops, foraging wild edibles, preservation and fermentation of crops, raising urban livestock, cheese making, composting and mushroom cultivation. A class for all ages and all scales of land access.
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Fee: $160.00
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Instructor: Lee Arbrogast
Capacity Remaining: -6
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Dates: 5/3/2023 - 6/7/2023
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Sessions: 6
Days: W
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Building: KVCC Food Innovation Center
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