{"id":136,"date":"2011-07-09T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2011-07-20T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T03:29:10","slug":"citizen-gardener-class-fort-worth-8132011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/09\/citizen-gardener-class-fort-worth-8132011\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Gardener Class – Fort Worth – 8\/13\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m very happy to announce the very first Citizen Gardener<\/a> class to be held in the North Texas \/ DFW area will be in Fort Worth on August 13, 2011. \u00a0The idea to start this class came from our spring\u00a0Permaculture Design Class. \u00a0Dick Pierce<\/a> (the instructor) had mentioned the program and I thought it sounded great and decided to implement in the DFW area. The class provides people who are interested in growing their own food a clear path to success with a minimal time and money investment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The location for the class is at the Fortress Youth\u00a0Development\u00a0Center<\/a> in east Fort Worth. \u00a0The class will help them along with their goal of starting a community garden and implementing vegetable gardening into their\u00a0curriculum\u00a0for young adults. \u00a0Right now, they have an empty spot that it not used, but we will construct two raised beds during the class, and eventually, they will fill the area with garden plots!<\/p>\n

As a very special treat for the first class, Dick Pierce, noted Permaculture instructor, designer, and consultant will be the lead teacher. \u00a0He makes classes lots of fun and manages to pack in lots and lots of learning in a short time. \u00a0An interesting approach to teaching is utilized in the Citizen Gardener classes: \u00a0First thing is DOING it, everyone helps build the beds, getting all the soil moved around and positioned correctly, planting, mulching, etc. \u00a0Of course there is some discussion during this time, but it is 100% hands-on! \u00a0After all of that, we have more formal classroom style learning. \u00a0People wind up absorbing much more of the knowledge when this format is used.<\/p>\n

For more information about this class, visit the main webpage for the DFW Citizen Gardener<\/a>. \u00a0Also note that you can sign up for future classes or suggest locations from that page. \u00a0For discussion about the CG program, visit the Citizen Gardener board<\/a> on the NTVG forum.<\/p>\n

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I’m very happy to announce the very first Citizen Gardener class to be held in the North Texas \/ DFW area will be in Fort Worth on August 13, 2011. \u00a0The idea to start this class came from our spring\u00a0Permaculture Design Class. \u00a0Dick Pierce (the instructor) had mentioned the program and I thought it sounded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-citizen-gardener","tag-fort-worth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jPFc-2c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}