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How can you tell the difference between beneficial and injurious insects? Learn about the garden food web and how to maintain a garden with minimum (or even no) pesticides. We'll discuss insects and entomology, but also soil biology, birds, fungi, and other life found in a thriving garden. Good bugs are a gardener's friend!

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

We all want a beautiful garden filled with healthy, vibrant flowers. These colorful and uplifting places move us past the routine landscape and are filled with pleasure, inspiration, and life. This intensive, practical course will present comprehensive information on many interacting concepts and systems – from developing healthy soils, to the irrigation, design, and plant care necessary to create attractive, efficient, ecologically-friendly/locally-appropriate gardens.

A series of colorful slides will illustrate these concepts. A number of print materials and resources will support this class and will be emailed to students.

Adventures in Ecological Gardening: From the U.S. to London and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Gardening and farming adventures have taken instructor Kate Frey from the U.S. to challenging and diverse situations, such as the Chelsea Flower Show in London, an organic farm in Saudi Arabia, and garden shows in Japan and Malaysia. What themes, practices, and systems from U.S. gardens, farms, and natural areas have informed how these projects looked and grew? What was the reaction to them from visitors? And what lessons and information has been learned from working in these countries? Kate will share these exciting adventures and expert knowledge to help you create healthy, productive gardens full of vitality.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.