2025 CLASSES: GROWING HEALTHY FOOD AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES!
HEALTHY FOOD CLASSES: A COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO LEARN TO GROW THEIR OWN HEALTHY FOOD
1. "LEARN HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN HEALTHY PLANTS: SEEDING 101" SATURDAY, MARCH 8TH, 10-NOON with Jeremy Houston, First Light Farm's Field Manager
2. "LEARN HOW TO PUT UP A HIGH TUNNEL" SATURDAY, APRIL 27th, 10-NOON (ADDITIONAL CLASSES MAY BE ADDED IF NEEDED) Almost all gardeners who grow vegetables in the Pacific Northwest should know how to put up a high tunnel to increase heat for their tomatoes, peppers, even beans and beets. In this workshop, you'll learn the basic process of putting up a caterpillar tunnel -- measuring the space, putting the rebar in the ground, putting up the plastic hoops and plastic, and finishing with putting the twine over the plastic. Participants will go home with knowing all of the steps to creating their own high tunnel for their own garden.Register online. $30.00. Q&A session at the end of the class. This class is free to First Light Farm's Mini Farmers.
HEALTHY COMMUNITIES CLASSES/EVENTS (tba)
First Light Farm's Learning Center's Educational Mission: to help people learn to grow their own food, reconnect with a living soil and the natural world, learn new life skills, and build more resilient communities.