4 Classes** (via Zoom):
Monday, June 8 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Monday, June 15 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Monday, June 22 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Monday, June 29 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
**Please plan on attending ALL class sessions.
Description:
Transform your community spaces and support your community with food! In this four week class, we will explore and learn about victory gardens, and a twist on them - potager gardens. A potager (po-toe-jhay), or kitchen garden, can be created with a community
garden, containers, or a front or back yard. It includes annuals, perennials, herbs, and vegetables in one space. This class will learn to design a garden with a myriad of color, blooming and harvest times. Participants will learn about soil, what
to plant in their areas, how to care for and maintain these plants, and how to support themselves, their homes, and their communities with food.
We'll go over your personal goals for gardening - container, community garden, backyard, and how to work on what you need/want. Those goals will vary per person and space, but we will go over soil, garden design, how to support the plants and garden that
you are looking for, as well as supporting the community through a victory garden/Potager garden design and execution.
We will also go over modifications for gardening to serve your body’s needs. Whether that is changing the way we use a trowel, using container gardens instead of the heavy work in an in-ground garden, hanging baskets on pulley systems to ease watering,
but most importantly designing and working in a space that works for you.
Questions? Email program@gildassclubmadison.org.
What You'll Need:
- - Internet and a device (computer, tablet, phone) that can connect to a zoom video conference session.
- - Some general recommendations for optional items will be shared during class but nothing specific is needed to participate in this learning opportunity.
About Mallory Shotwell:
Mallory Shotwell is an interdisciplinary artist and arts educator. In her art practice, she works
with storytelling/interview, audio, photography, and video to share stories based on a theme. She majored in English at Aquinas College in Michigan, and later French and Elementary Education at Edgewood College in Madison. She worked as a public school
teacher in Michigan and as a Montessori teacher in Madison. In her teaching practice, she utilizes multiple learning styles to serve and respect people's needs.
Zoom access is provided by our Technology Sponsor, the Wisconsin Cancer Collaborative.