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Instructor: Bill Shores

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Raised Bed Gardening

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

This class will cover all aspects of installing and growing in raised beds. Topics include options for purchasing or building them, appropriate sites and soils, season-extension techniques, plant selection, and intensive planting techniques to maximize crop yields in small spaces.

(127) All levels 18 and older
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Small Space Food Gardens

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Bill Shores will offer an overview of techniques to produce food organically in small urban/suburban spaces. Through photos and garden planting graphics, you will gain an understanding of the process of designing a successful food garden.  Topics include efficient use of in-ground space, intensive and succession planting techniques, raised bed gardens, season extension, indoor gardens, and building and maintaining healthy soils.

(127) All levels 18 and older
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Urban Composting

Chicago Botanic Garden

Compost is a valuable soil amendment, and making it provides a great way to recycle abundant yard and food wastes. Even with limited or no yard space, you can produce surprisingly large quantities of your own high-quality compost. Join Bill Shores as he explains the composting process, how to choose and handle materials, ways to fit composting into small urban spaces, what containers you can build or purchase and how to use them effectively, harvesting...

(127) All levels 18 and older
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Growing Salads Indoors

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Learn to grow organic salad greens at home, whether you have garden space or not! Professional gardener Bill Shores, who has grown specialty greens for more than a decade and currently manages chef Rick Bayless’s market garden, will treat participants to a visual feast of microgreens. Then he will demonstrate how to plant the seeds in growing trays, and discuss maintenance and harvesting techniques.

(127) All levels 18 and older
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