FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 2008 PSA
CONTACT: Garden for the Environment
Blair Randall, Garden Education Program Manager
TEL: (415) 731-5627
EMAIL: info@gardenfortheenvironment.org

Garden for the Environment will offer the following classes in May 2008.  All classes will be offered at Garden for the Environment, a half-acre organic demonstration garden in San Francisco at 7th and Lawton Street.  Since it’s founding in 1990, the garden has operated as a demonstration site for small-scale urban ecological food production, organic gardening, compost education and low water-use landscaping.


MAY 2007 Workshops

1.    May 3rd, Urban Composting, 10AM - 12Noon
2.    May 10th, Earthen Oven Building Workshop, 10AM - 12Noon
3.    May 17th, Advanced Composting: DIY Compost Bins Design, C/N Ratios Demystified, Urban Sources of Greens and Browns, 10AM – 12Noon


URBAN COMPOSTING
Date: Saturday, May 3rd, 10AM – 12Noon
Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton St., San Francisco

Jump-start your Spring garden with some homemade compost!  Aside from giving veggies and flowers a healthy start, composting encourages beneficial organisms in the soil and can help break the life cycle of plant pests and diseases.  Join Garden for the Environment for this fun, hands-on workshop teaching methods for backyard and worm composting.  Come learn what you can do to improve your garden without chemical fertilizers or pesticides and prevent organic waste from ending up in the landfill! Rot on!  

This workshop is free and open to all San Francisco residents, will be held at Garden For the Environment, on 7th Ave. at Lawton Street, 10am – 12 Noon. Pre-registration required. To pre-register please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment.org.



EARTHEN OVEN BUILDING WORKSHOP
Date: Saturday, May 10th, 10AM – 12Noon
Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton St., San Francisco

In this workshop we will learn the basics of natural building by constructing a cob oven.  This fun and inspiring one-day workshop will cover material choices, design options, and build the main chamber of a cob oven.  We will use locally sources materials to raise awareness of what is possible in our own backyard.  For more detailed information about this workshop, please visit our website at www.gardenfortheenvironment.org

This workshop is $15, although no one will be turned away for lack of funds, and will be held at Garden For the Environment, on 7th Ave. at Lawton Street, 10am – 12 Noon. Pre-registration required. To pre-register please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment.org.


ADVANCED COMPOSTING: DIY COMPOST BIN DESIGN, C/N RATIOS DEMYSTIFIED, URBAN SOURCES OF GREENS & BROWNS
Date: Saturday, May 17th, 10AM – 12Noon
Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton St., San Francisco

You've set up your compost bin and made some of that delicious Gardener's Gold…you’re ready to take it to the next level! (your bin and its contents that is).  Join us for this Advanced Composting workshop to learn about DIY compost bin designs from reclaimed materials and participate in the hands-on construction of a bin made from salvaged materials.  Further, we’ll discuss urban sources for the greens and browns your compost pile needs and learn the science behind Carbon / Nitrogen ratios, both in the pile and of individual materials.  ROT ON!

This workshop is $5, although no one will be turned away for lack of funds, and will be held at Garden For the Environment, on 7th Ave. at Lawton Street, 10am – 12 Noon. Pre-registration required. To pre-register please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment.org.


The Garden for the Environment is not Wheelchair accessible. 
 
GARDEN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
http://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org
(415) 731-5627



GARDEN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
http://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org
(415) 731-5627
Join us in the Garden on Wed & Sat.
We are in the Office on Tue, Thur, and Fri.