Cook your Way into the New Year and Celebrate with Healthy Food!Saturday, January, 26, 10-11am
Decatur Public Library Meeting Room
Healthy eating is about feeling great, having more energy, and keeping your life in balance. Les Dames d’Escoffier International members, Kristy Cook and Nancy Lutz will guide you in the right direction. These Senior Consultants with Affairs to Remember Caterers will teach you how to host a party with bright colorful healthy foods you can feel great about. You can expand your range of healthy food choices and learn how to plan ahead to create tasty, healthy celebrations in 2013.
Snapshot of Plant your First Spring GardenMonday, February 25, 10-11:30am
Decatur Library Auditorium
This class is for first time gardeners, or those transitioning over to organic methods of vegetable gardening. Join Stephanie Van Parys, Executive Director of the Oakhurst Community Garden Project, and learn about spring and summer vegetables and herbs perfect for our region.
Why Saving Our Seeds MattersSaturday, March 2, 10-11am
Brought to you by the Wylde Center and Park Pride, join Ira Wallace, from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, and learn why is it important for gardeners to save seeds. GMOs, seed industry consolidation, and lost seed-saving skills threaten the very basis of organic agriculture. Learn more about what is happening and how you can fight back with your garden, your votes, and your dollars. Join Ira, the Wylde Center, and Park Pride at the Oakhurst Garden for a Free Seed Swap Potluck with Seed Saving Demo right after the presentation at 11:30am. If it is raining we will have the seed swap at the Decatur Library.
Click here to RSVP for FREE SEED SWAP and instructions to participate.
Ira Wallace lives and gardens at Acorn Community Farm, home of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange , where she coordinates variety selection and seed growers. Southern Exposure offers 700+ varieties of non-GMO, open-pollinated, and organic seeds. Ira is a co-organizer of the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello . She serves on the board of the Organic Seed Alliance and is a frequent presenter at the Mother Earth News Fairs and many other events throughout the Southeast. Her first book, The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, will be available in late 2013.
Permaculture: Common Sense Connections in the GardenTuesday, March 12, 10-11am
Decatur Public Library Meeting Room
Join Garden Designer Brandy Hall and learn the tools to build prosperous and resilient gardens. We will also look at practical and simple solutions to issues such as water storage and erosion control. Brandy passionately engages communities through education, design, and installation of food forests and perennial farms and gardens through her small ecological design firm, Shades of Green at
shadesofgreeninc.org.