Edible Forest Gardening for the Prairies Workshop With Ron Berezan
May 17, 2015
Date & Time : 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday May 17 & Monday May 18
Do you want to grow and eat your own organic food but weed and water less?
Forests sustain themselves ... nobody weeds and waters a forest or a thriving ecosystem! This can be done entirely with edibles. Ron Berezan is coming to Medicine Hat to hold an Edible Forest Garden Workshop. Ron has been passionate about growing food for the last 30 years, and has designed public edible landscapes, intensive production urban areas, rooftop gardens, and edible forest gardens. He's taught permaculture, forest gardening, and organic gardening workshops from the Yukon to Cuba. He also writes for a variety of permaculture and organic gardening magazines and has been a regular CBC Alberta radio gardening guest.
With him, discover hundreds of edibles, many of which are lesser-known, and how to combine them in patterns that forge mutually beneficial relationships to create a self-sustaining edible garden ecosystem. Discover perennial and self-seeding fruit, nut, annual vegetables, mushrooms, and small livestock including bees, poultry, as well as other plant yields including medicinal plants, coppicing plants, plants for crafting activities, flower production, harvestable timber species, perennial plants for bio-fuel production, and beautiful spaces for relaxation.
- In this workshop:
- - discover how forest gardening is a viable alternative for Southern Alberta climates in rural and urban settings
- - learn forest gardening design principles and practice
- - discover a wide range of edibles for our region
EARLYBIRD SPECIALS (save up to $50 if you register by April 30!)
- - 2 day intensive course - earlybird: $259 / person
- - 2 day intensive course + bring a friend earlybird: $239 / person
REGULAR PRICE (register after April 30) - 2 day intensive course regular price: $289
- 2 day course
- materials (including less known edible plant and microbe samples to bring home, plus mushroom spawn for the brave at heart)
- biochar making demo
Location: To be determined.
Cheques made payable to "Community Food Connections Association". Registration forms & payment may be dropped off or mailed to:
2948 Dunmore Road SE Medicine Hat, AB T1A 8E3
For questions, please contact Jennifer at (403)548-7884 or Rita at (403)502-8224
We are also hosting free to the public mini-workshops on Saturday, May 16th at Police Point Park Nature Centre:
Rethinking Gardens: Introducing permaculture to your yard
Three free programs present a new view on low-input and tasty gardening:
1:00pm Owen Nelson - An Introduction to Permaculture
2:00pm Ron Berezan - Intro to Edible Food Forest
3:00pm Kristen Mann- Edible Weeds and their uses
Sales - Organic bedding plants