Title: Hands-On Preserving Demonstration Class
Location: Chattanooga Area Food Bank Prep Kitchen
Description: Learn how to preserve your summer vegetables at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank hands-on preserving demonstration class. Featured vegetables will be tomatoes, beans and okra. The cost is $15.00 and includes reference materials. There is a limit of 10 participants, so register soon. Come [...]
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Title: Raised Bed Building Workshop Are you thinking about becoming a grower? SproUTing Growers is a 6-part workshop series to provide potential growers with the business planning and management, vegetable and small fruit planning and production and direct marketing skills that they need to properly plan [...] The popular Beginning & Newcomer Gardening classes will start in March and will be held on four Tuesday nights, March 8, 15, 22, and 29. The classes will be held at the J. Merle Crawley Building Agriculture Center, 6183 Adamson Circle from 6:30 pm till 9:00 pm. Master gardeners will teach two subjects each night: March 8 The Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SSAWG) returns to the Chattanooga Convention Center for its 20th Annual Conference “Practical Tools & Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms.” The conference begins Wednesday, January 19 for 2 days of pre-conference activities that include mini- and short-courses, seed swaps and tours of area organic farms, including Sequatchie Cove Farm, [...] If you didn’t have a chance to start your fall vegetables or are ready to freshen up your flower garden, the Chattanooga Area Food Bank is offering a great opportunity to get your fall garden in gear. Now through when supplies last, you can stop by the Evelyn Davenport Navarre Teaching Garden each weekday morning [...] By Dick Fehrenbacher, Master Gardener of Hamilton County Beets are from pre-historic times along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. They became very popular in France and Germany. Beets are high in sugar content but low in calories. Beet powder is used as a coloring [...] Many annuals, herbs and vegetables are easy and fairly quick to grow from seed with minimum amount of equipment. Some vegetable seeds are sown directly into the ground (i.e., carrots) while others are started off in seed trays in the house or greenhouse and then transferred to either the veggie patch [...] By Dick Fehrenbacher The table below provides guidelines for planting seeds based on an average last frost date of April 19 and first frost date of October 21 (Zone 7). Some cool weather plants can be planted in the fall (see the Fall Gardening post). The dates for planting seeds are averages; buying [...] |
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