Want your garden to yield more food with less work? Plan now and get a jump on year-round abundance!
- 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. 22, 1-3:30 pm – in the garden*, NE Portland
Part B: 2024 Garden Plan show-and-tell with expert feedback!
Thursday March 3, 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.
$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!