Spring Gardening Workshop | Friendship Gardens Charlotte

Spring gardening workshop on March 19

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 programWe 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 tour pages of this site.

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 the flyer here.

Friendship Gardens Charlotte
Creating local, renewable nutritious food resources for meals-on-wheels recipients
An Initiative of Slow Food Charlotte and Friendship Trays, Inc.

Friendship Trays, 2401-A Distribution St. Charlotte, NC 28203 voice 704-333-9229 fax 704-333-5947
Meals-on-wheels in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC
Delivering, in a caring and friendly manner, balanced meals to individuals in this community
who are unable, because of age or infirmity, to obtain and prepare their own meal
Friendship Trays is a 501(c)(3) organization. Employer ID #56-1201496. Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license
are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 919-807-2000. The license is not an endorsement by the State.