British Columbia: May 3, 2008- Food Gardening for the Faint of Heart Full Day Workshop

The Sustainable Living Arts School and Langara College Continuing Studies are thrilled to host a full day workshop:

Gardening for the Faint of Heart
with Robin Wheeler
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This fun and intensive full day course was designed for those who feel they are beginners in food gardening but would love to feel more confident about understanding garden systems and food production. Students will learn garden terms (the fun way!), explore the magic of "microclimates", make design choices, select plants for your needs, delve into seed catalogues and learn techniques for watering, simple soil improvement and more.

Our teacher for the day: Robin Wheeler founded the Sustainable Living Arts School in Robert's Creek because she is passionate about teaching the simple, low tech skills we need to live sustainably both in the country and in the city. She's the author of Gardening for the Faint of Heart and the forthcoming Food Security for the Faint of Heart (both from New Society Publishers). She's also a very funny and wise teacher. You'll leave inspired, with the skills to grow more food. A great gift idea for Mother's Day! For more on Robin's work visit www.ediblelandscapes.ca

Gardening for the Faint of Heart
with Robin Wheeler
Saturday, May 3 2008 10am-4pm
Cost: $85 includes a local, seasonal and delicious lunch with lots of time for fun and casual conversation on the topics at hand. Class size will be small (max. 15) so that all of your burning questions can be answered.
More info: www.slas.wikispaces.com or email keiramc@gmail.com
Register: In person or by phone 604-323-5322 with Langara Continuing Studies . For more info email keiramc@gmail.com

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The Sustainable Living Arts School

The Sustainable Living Arts School is a rural and urban learning initiative that emphasizes bringing local folks, local knowledge and local resources together for free-of-charge, hands-on learning experiences that help us reduce our ecological footprint, increase our individual and community self-sufficiency, and build healthy community relations. We value and work towards non-commodified, non-institutional, non-credentialized, non-evaluated learning and yes-accessible, yes-joyous, yes-empowering, yes-collective learning (among other lofty goals)! Consuming less and relating more, might be one way to sum it up.

In Vancouver we host learning parties where the subject is anything that helps us to live more lightly. We're inspired by permaculturists, 100 mile dieters ('cept for chocolate etc), slow foodies, herbalists, alternative energy folk, natural builders and thrifty, handy, food-growing and food foraging people everywhere.

In Robert's Creek at our rural campus, Robin Wheeler's lush Edible Landscapes, we host weekend intensive workshops on a wide variety of sustainability skills. Come relearn the simple, low tech skills that will reduce our local footprint, decrease our impact on others in the world, and permit breathing space and time for connection with our landscape. www.ediblelandscapes.ca

If this sounds like you, and you are passionate about something you would like to SHARE or HOST by offering a free/for donation only learning party, we are now looking for teachers and hosts for the spring/summer season. Please contact Keira McPhee at keiramc@gmail.com or 604-707-0337 Andrew Rushmere at arushmere@hotmail.com or 604-708-8314 if interested. Thanks a bunch!