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Your Best Veggie Garden - 6 week Class - Reg. by 2/21
If you have never grown a vegetable garden or are a novice vegetable gardener, here is a class for you! Experienced gardeners that want to hone their skills are welcome as well.
Possum Creek MetroPark Farm is offering Your Best Vegetable Garden on Tuesday evenings, March 6 to April 10, from 6 - 9 pm. Each class covers a different topic and a hands-on project pertinent to growing a successful garden. Guest speakers and MetroParks personnel present topics on soil and composting, planning the garden, planting the garden, pests of the garden, and preserving the harvest. The last session is devoted to the class participants sharing some aspect of gardening. One Saturday in April is a work day and field trip to an area vegetable grower.
There are some mandatory stipulations associated with this class: an interview, finger printing; and class fee of $20 (due at the interview). Participants are also requested to complete 25 hours of service learning volunteer hours at Possum Creek Farm or one of the other MetroPark garden sites following completion of the class. Materials for the hands-on project are supplied for you.
Interested in signing up? Contact Kevin Kepler, Volunteer Services Manager, by email or at (937) 275-7275 ext 1212 to arrange an interview. Kevin can be reached by calling . Please register by February 21, 2012.
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By Compost this
February 6, 2012 11:48 AM | Link to this
I have to be interviewed and finger printed???
By null
February 6, 2012 1:43 PM | Link to this
Why do you need my fingerprint????Is there a plant bomb in the garden??And 25 hrs of your free time.This is stupid as stupid can be.And 20 bucks.This is one dumb story.And a interview?? WHY WHY WHY???
By AM
February 6, 2012 6:47 PM | Link to this
Finger printing? For a gardening class??? Who do these people think we are?? Who do they think THEY are????? None of my hard earned money will go to support this type of nonsense. Why is it that we allow this type of leadership in ANY of our civic groups? Am I now a terror threat because I want to plant green peppers?
By luci
February 7, 2012 12:26 PM | Link to this
MetroParks, like most public organizations, fingerprints all volunteers. The fee covers the cost of the binder and printed material used in the class - which the student takes away with them. If you’re not interested in a multi-session class with volunteer requirements and a fee, then consider the many free classes MetroParks also offers.