Advanced Backyard Gardening: Concepts & Solutions

Learn the tools and techniques that will save you time and money as you take your home garden to the next level!

This class is offered on multiple dates.

Sunday, January 28, 1:00pm-3:30pm

Sunday, February, 25 1:00pm-3:30pm

$30 non-members; $25 members

Are you ready to expand your production, increase yields, and get the most out of your backyard food system? Bigger, better gardens need bigger, better solutions!

Join Jason Kamp, our market gardener, as he shares his knowledge of suburban homesteading in an indoor talk, and provides a guided tour of our food and flower garden production spaces.

Great for experienced gardeners ready to level up, this class will cover the following:

  • Save your money! Get the most out of your soil, seeds, and space!
  • Integrated pest management ideas and solutions.
  • Permaculture techniques and perennial food crops.
  • Increased yields through season extension, vertical growing, seed saving, irrigation solutions, and preserving the harvest.
  • Garden tool and equipment reviews “before you buy”

This informative class will also provide take home resources to help you grow even more of your own healthy food right in your own backyard!

FAQ

Your ticket to this program covers attendance at this two-hour long program that includes an indoor talk and an outdoor garden tour. You will also receive access to take-home information on gardening. Non-Member tickets also include the cost of admission to the farm for a day. Please note that because this program runs on a Sunday when the farm is closed to the public (except for private classes), this farm admission should be used on another day that the farm is open within the year of 2023.

Not at all! Eventbrite will redirect you to a PayPal pop-up to take payment, but you can simply enter your card information by selecting the grey “Pay with Credit or Debit Card” button at the bottom.

Dress in layers to be prepared to both sit inside for an hour and walk around outside (less than a mile on a hilly path) for an hour.

REGISTER

By registering for this class you are agreeing to the following:
Cancellation policy: We provide full reimbursements for tickets purchased through Eventbrite up to two weeks in advance of the program. After two weeks in advance of the program, we will not provide reimbursements for cancellations of tickets.
Pet policy: For the safety and comfort of other guests, pets are not allowed at any GHF program. Service animals are welcome. Therapy animals whose job is to provide emotional support do not count as service animals.
Illness/COVID Policy: If  you suspect  you may be coming down with a transmissible illness, or are currently testing positive for COVID, we require you to stay home. Thank you for helping us to keep each other healthy and comfortable!
Agritourism Warning: Under Ohio law, there is no liability for an injury to or death of a participant in an agritourism activity conducted at this agritourism location if that injury or death results from the inherent risks of that agritourism activity. Inherent risks of agritourism activities include, but are not limited to. the risk of injury inherent to land, equipment, and animals as well as the potential for you as a participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to your injury or death. You are assuming the risk of participating in this agritourism activity.