March 6, 2011

Ah, springtime in North Carolina. Time to get out in the garden and grow some lettuce, spinach, broccoli, and sugar snap peas before it gets too hot.

Friendship Gardens is a network of urban gardens that strive to teach gardening and grow fresh, healthy, local food for Friendship Trays, Charlotte-Mecklenburg's meals-on-wheels program.

We are happy to offer our SPRING vegetable gardening workshop on Saturday, March 19 from 10 a.m-Noon.

The workshop will be led by Friendship Gardens Coordinator Henry Owen and will take place at Cooks Community Garden, 3201 Mt Holly-Huntersville Rd Charlotte, NC, 28216 See their website to learn more about their gardening effort, or see the Cooks pages on the Friendship Gardens website's tour pages.

To register, click the drawing above to go to a Google Docs form. Bring gloves for your hands, and water to drink. The only cost is two hours of volunteering in one of the gardens growing food for Friendship Trays.

At this workshop you will learn about

• Garden bed preparation
• Soil Life
• Spring Gardening, what you can grow and when
• Planting
• Organic pest and disease controls

Download a flyer for the event here.