CANVAS RANCH, a sustainable and diversified family farm in west Petaluma, is happy to announce our Farm To Table* Farm School is ready to rock! And you're invited!  

Our first series of workshops is all about growing some of your own food easily and successfully. Step-by-step, we'll give you the tools you need to create a veggie and/or herb patch of whatever size you can handle -- even if it's just a few containers on the deck.

Workshops are Saturday mornings from 10-12 at Canvas Ranch in west Petaluma. Cost is $40 for each workshop ($10 discount for Canvas Ranch CSA members -- one per family please).  Participants 14 years old or older are welcome.

February 4  Designing your garden, theme gardens, seed sources, best varieties for our climate

February 18  Building a mini hoophouse/coldframe, making your own potting soil, growing your own starts 

March 3   Building raised beds, container gardening, low tunnel hoophouses

March 17  Testing/amending your garden soil, building a compost pile, worms

 March 31  Get the bugs out, companion planting, French biointensive gardens, crop rotations

Sign up today, share with your neighbors and co-workers, let your School Garden Coordinator know.  Classes are limited.  Send your check for the first workshop to Canvas Ranch, 755 Tomales Road, Petaluma, CA 94952.  And please email me if you have any questions.  I look forward to seeing you! 

*From Farm To Table is a project of the Education Foundation of Sonoma County, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 1991. 

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