Urban Agriculture Series

The 2015 Urban Agriculture Series is set to return on Saturday, February 14, 2015. This six week free event will be held at Blanton House, 700 Blanton Avenue, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. You can RSVP to richmondgrowsgardens@richmondgov.com

 

Schedule of speakers include:

February 14:
Duron Chavis, Project Director of Virginia State University Indoor Farm
Sean Shepard, Co-Owner Backyard Farmers.

Topic: Economic opportunities and entrepreneurship in sustainable urban agriculture.

February 21:
Victoria Campbell, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Community Facilities Community Garden Coordinator
Kelly Deegan, Blue Bee Cider Horticulturist

Topic: How to grow vegetables and fruit organically.

February 28:
Ellen Shepard, Linwood Holton Elementary School School Garden
Kristi Orcutt, Bright Hope Farm

Topic: How to develop school gardens. How to raise goats and chickens in an urban environment.

March 7:
David Stover, Urban Apiary and Beekeeping
Arthur Kay, Environmental Scientist at Carverponics

Topic: The art of beekeeping. How to grow fish and hydroponic food to eat.

March 14:
Bruno Welsh, Founder of CompostRVA
Dennis Williams, Tricycle Gardens

Topic: Composting and growing worms.

March 21:
Cheryl Crawford, Virginia Cooperative Extension Service
Ana Edwards, Market Coordinator for Byrd House Farmers' Market

Topic: How to preserve foods and cooking what you grow.

Department of Parks, Recreation, and Community Facilities Announces Urban Agriculture Classes

Join the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Communitiy Facilities for the Urban Agriculture Learning Series.  Classes are scheduled to begin on Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 11 a.m. 

The full schedule is listed below.

February 22:  

    Duron Chavis of Happy Natural Day presenting “Economic Impacts of Urban Farming”

    Victoria Campbell presenting “Preparing the Urban Land for Crop Production”

March 1:

    David Stover presenting “Beekeeping”  

    Jan Thomas of the Richmond Tree Stewards presenting “Caring for Your Fruit Trees”

March 8:

    Ellen Shepard of Lynwood Holton Elementary presenting “Developing School Gardens”

    Lisa Taranto of Keelona Farm presenting “Organic Insect Control”

March 15:

    Kristi Orcutt from Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens “How to Get Your Garden to Grow”

    Sean Sheppard of Backyard Farmers presenting “Sustainable Agriculture as an Entrepreneurial Opportunity” 

 March 22:

    Bruno Welsh of CompostRVA with “Composting”

    Cheryl Crawford with “Fundamentals of Preserving Your Garden Crops”

 March 29:

    John Lewis of Renew Richmond presenting “Vermiculture –Worms”

   Ana Edwards presenting “Cooking What You Grow”