Educational Series

SAN ANTONIO THRIVING

In 2013, our entire educational series is dedicated to helping SA thrive. You can join in as a host, a presenter, a participant, or a volunteer for any of these events.

 

Learn with us

Green Spaces hosts multiple community gardening workshops each year that provide gardeners with regionally-appropriate gardening techniques as they get hands-on training from local experts.

• Pollinator Series – in 2013, GSA is offering 4 one-hour workshop topics: Spring Vegetable Gardening, Organic Gardening, Fall Vegetable Gardening, and Community Organizing. Learn more and request a presentation.
  

• Permaculture in Small Spaces – a mini series for many places. Don’t let the big concept of permaculture hold you back from small scale application. Sign-up for one or more of this three-part series. Each Permaculture workshop is $50, or $125 to attend all three. Contact Michelle to learn more.

• Movies – come an hour early for a potluck and a little garden work. Each movie shares details about the various links in our food supply, ways to get outdoors and active, and examples of community coming together for greater good.
  • Movie in the Garden- “Happy“: April 6, 2013
  • Movie in the Garden/Family Night- “Play Again“: July 20, 2013
  • Movie in the Garden/National Food Day Celebration- “Vanishing of the Bees“: October 20, 2013

• Work(ing)shops/Special Educational Events
  
  • Gardening with Kids: February 21, 2013
  • Composting Workshop: April 16, 2013
  • Herbs, Outside the Planter Box: July 14, 2013
  • Art for Water Conservation: August 24, 2013
  • National Food Day Celebration: October 20, 2013

   

Sign-up for the next garden workshop

Become a Pollinator

1. A-Z Seed Swaps – Seed Swaps will be held twice a year (before spring and fall planting). Bring your seeds and share your recipes. Each Seed Swap also offers mini seed-starting demonstrations.

• Seed Swap: January 24, 2013
• Seed Swap: July 20, 2013

1. Mentor Orientation- the first mentor orientation has passed, but please contact Michelle if you’re interested
2. Volunteer Training – the first volunteer training training has passed, but volunteers are always welcome. Contact Bruce to learn more, or check out our volunteer page and start getting your hands dirty.
3. Speaker’s Bureau – get trained up for GSA and be our voice to the community.

Join the GARDEN FORUM

Become a member of Green Spaces and gain a year’s access to the garden forum- a resource full of inspiration & ideas, from regionally-appropriate techniques & specifications for tried and true structures to offered garden supplies and stories about the boy who learned to love spinach.