[Seedgeeks] Winter Foods Gardening Workshop

[Nick Routledge]

Please circulate:
   
  Wot: Winter Foods & Gardening Workshop
  When: Saturday, June 24, 3.00 p.m.
  Where: FFLC Youth Farm, 705 Flamingo, Springfield (directions below)
  Sponsors: FFLC and the Eugene-Springfield Permaculture Guild
   
  Fundamentals:
  The longest garden food season of the year in the PNW is not the 'Summer', but the 'Winter' season. There exist no up-to-date sources of information around this topic. Join our workshop/discussion/seed exchange to learn/share about approaches to eating and living well through Fall, Winter and early Spring. The event will be co-hosted by Ted Purdy, FFLC farmer, and Nick Routledge, mildly perplexed. In recent years, these Fall-Winter workshops have been the best-attended gardening workshops we've seen locally. Interest, already high, is growing fast. Come find out why. The event is free. Questions, call Nick at 284-3703. 
   
  Fluff:
  Why a winter gardening workshop in June? In previous years, our winter workshops have been scheduled in conjunction with the Fall Bioregional Permaculture Gathering, far too late to begin seeding and/or transplanting the key brassica winter food crops. This workshop is timed to provide you with an opportunity to ready most of your winter foods (mid-winter leeks were seeded some time ago, for example) in the major June-July seeding window. We will have some seed to share. For those of you unable to address the challenges of raising cold weather crops into the hottest months of the year (which we will cover), we will discuss the realpolitik of plant availability, locally, as well as the basics of timing, varieties, and cultural info including yes, slugs.
   
  For those of you looking to the deeper patterns, we will conclude the workshop with a debrief on how specific winter food plants are evolving in our bioregion, where the most exciting material is to be found, and what opportunities exist for backyard gardeners to play a significant role in deepening the ecological resilience of our winter food shed. 
   
  Later in the season, we will follow up with a workshop focusing on garlic, winter grains, favas and winter cover cropping.
   
  Directions to the Foo Foo La Cootie youf farm. 
  Option1: Take Beltline as far east as it goes (about 1/2 mile east of I-5). Go right on Game Farm Road, pwoceed six blocks to the Baptist Church, go right on Flamingo, pwoceed 2 blocks and the farm is on yer left.
  Option 2: Take Coburg Road to Harlow. Take a right. Continue on Harlow which crosses I-5, turns into Hayden Bridge, then turn left on Game Farm Road, pwoceed 2 blocks, hang a louie on Flamingo.
   
  Regards, as ever,
   
  n.

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