Letting Mother Nature Do the Work

“Letting Mother Nature Do the Work:An Introduction to Permaculture Gardening in Haines”

                   Instructor: Melissa Aronson

Saturdays (3/10, 3/31, 4/7, 4/21, 5/12, 5/26) from 9-12.  Location:

Science room at the High School. $100 fee.  Gaia’s Garden will be

provided to each participant. Registration deadline: Wednesday March 7

Attention: Nate Benton, Haines Borough School District. Class size

limited to 20.

For more information, contact Melissa Aronson at 766-2185 or via email

at aronson@aptalaska.net. This course sponsored by Haines Community

Education and 7 Echoes Homestead.

March 10: Focus: Orientation.  Introduction to the concepts of

permaculture. Handout Gaia's Garden; group activity. Hand out copies

of Cooperative Extension guidelines on varieties for Southeast Alaska

gardens.  Hand out working draft of “Haines Gardening Handbook (HGG)”

and begin group contributions to HGG.  Group activity with seed

catalogues so everyone can order (and share) seeds.  Assign homework

of mapping out gardening areas.