Class 2: Garden Planning for the Year-Round Harvest

Want your garden to yield more food with less work? Plan now and get a jump on year-round abundance!

Treleven hex beds

  • Grow food year-round in Portland’s mild climate
  • Save water and time
  • Choose the right crops for your garden
  • Lay out your garden beds
  • Read planting calendars, seed packets and seed catalogs
  • ..and more.

To get the most out of this class, bring a map of your garden site and a list of what you hope to grow.  Class 1 can help you with mapping.

Can’t make Class 1?  All students registered for Class 2 will receive instructions for making your own map.

Part A:  Garden Planning instruction and Garden Map show-and-tell

Saturday Feb. 24, 1-3:30 pm – in the garden*, NE Portland

Part B: 2024 Garden Plan show-and-tell with expert feedback!

Thursday March 7, 6-8 pm online – link sent to all registered students
Can’t make both sessions?  Don’t worry, Part B will be recorded!

Free compost! Free soil! Share in the garden magic. BYOB (Bring your own bucket, or bag, or tarp, etc).  $1/bucket suggested after the first two.  Free for Black-led, Indigenous-led and mutual aid projects.

Costs: class is a fundraiser.  All proceeds will be donated to volunteer work in Palestine with International Solidarity Movement.

$20-45 sliding scale per session; $40-80 for both sessions

$45.00Add to cart


To pay an amount other than $45 per session, choose “Check Payment” and then send by PayPal to
handmadegardenspdx@gmail.com
or bring payment to class.
Scholarships (for entire series!) and work-trade available.  Call to discuss.  No one turned away for lack of funds.

*Weather permitting.  These planning classes, unlike most gardening classes, can be held indoors or online if we have another snowstorm.  But we hope to be outdoors!