Friday, January 6, 2012

Our January 2012 Schedule

Venice High School Students' lettuces!
Under the 'better-late-than-never' heading, here is the schedule for this month at The Learning Garden:  

WHAT TO DO,  WHEN TO DO IT; GROWING FOOD IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
 January 7, 2012 Saturday
10:00am - Noon
On the Garden Patio
Learn the secrets of experienced gardeners to grow your best garden yet!  David King, with about 50 years of experience, will take you through the things you need to do to get your garden started this year. $25.00 at the Gate and discounts for prepaying for multiple  classes. Dress warm, bring a cup if you want hot coffee or hot tea! We go on rain or shine...

LESSONS FROM THE LEARNING GARDEN WEBCAST
 January 11, 2012  Wednesday  
 6pm
 On the internets 
Free with this invitation!

Have you ever wondered how The Learning Garden began?  Or how you can duplicate this project in your own neighborhood?  We invite you to join us on a live MedicineCrow.com webcast where David Crow meets with co-founder Julie Mann, and Gardenmaster, David King to discuss the history of the garden, its importance to our community, and ups, downs, ins and outs of creating a unique garden project. 

As our guests, all you have to do is register at this link, and you will be instructed how to attend - either by phone or online.

GROWING FOOD IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
 January 12, 2012
 Thursday
 8 PM

Gardenmaster David King presents a growing food workshop as a a part of the series, Analog Living Series at Crash Space,  10526 Venice Blvd, Culver City CA 90232

WESTSIDE PRODUCE EXCHANGE
 January 14, 2012
 Saturday
 9 to 12 Noon
The Learning Garden Patio


The Westside Produce Exchange is a monthly free exchange of fruits, vegetables and edible herbs in the Westside of Los Angeles, California. Contact them to learn how to share your excess vegetables with others.  They also maintain an active Facebook page.

SEED LIBRARY OF LOS ANGELES (SLOLA) Monthly Meeting
 January 14, 2012
 Saturday
 2:30 PM  

Grow from seed, save your own seed.   SLOLA's monthly meetings always include a short course on something to do with seed saving.  This month, David King will help us through our New Year Seed Saving Resolutions!
Also election of our new officers takes place as well as checking out seeds from the Library!

PLANT PROPAGATION FOR GARDENERS
 January 15, 2012
 Sunday 
 1:30 PM 

Offered by UCLA Extension, Plant Propagation is a 10 week fun-filled and exciting course that covers making new plants from seed, cuttings, grafting and every other way you can make new plants! Register through UCLA Extension.
  
SEED SAVING, HOW AND WHY
 January 28, 2012
 11 AM to Noon
 Santa Monica Library, Fairview Branch

Assiduously avoiding the politics of seed saving, for about an hour David King will show us how to save seeds emphasizing the easy ones to save.  
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW VICTORY GARDENERS RE-UNITE!
 January 28, 2012
 1 to 3 PM
 At our picnic tables

Students who have attended any of our Victory Garden classes are invited to return to take stock of progress and get fired up for the new year!  


For those of you interested in Victory Garden courses, in a few weeks we'll be introducing our Spring course list for 2012!  


A final heads up for February:  We will have a trio of exceptionally talented poets on our patio for a poetry reading just before Valentine's Day.  Suggested donation of $15 at the door; warm drinks and cookies will be served... more details as we get them.  

One of our New Years' Resolutions is to get MORE ART in the Garden.  I have always wanted poetry reads, singer-songwriter afternoons and full moon workdays.  If you have ideas or want to help make any of this a reality, drop us a line:  It can't be done alone, but with a little help, we could all have a lovely To Do list!  :-)  Happy New Year everyone!

Hope to see you in the Garden soon...  Join the Occupy The Learning Garden Movement...


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