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Our Classes are always changing. Check back frequently to see the latest updates!

We host and co-host a variety of classes related to growing, maintaining, harvesting from, and using cultivated and wild edible and medicinal plants. See our current offerings below! Are you an instructor looking to teach classes in these topic areas in Minnesota, South Dakota, or Iowa? Contact us!

Seed Soiree: 2022 Garden Planning for Food and Seed Saving

Topics:

Come learn how to design a garden for both food and sharing seeds in your community.  We will also discuss how to acquire and start your own seeds.

Class is appropriate for both beginner and experienced gardeners.

Free and open to the public. To make a design for YOUR garden in class, please contact Berty at riverbendberries@gmail.com by Friday, February 11th with your name, the size and layout of your garden, and a list of what you want to grow.

Be a Seed Saving Hero and commit to growing 3 varieties of seed in your garden for the Rock County and Common Roots Seed Libraries!  We will have information available and sign up at the class.

Date: Saturday, February 19, 2021

Time: 10:30am-12pm

Location: Rock County Community Library

201 W Main St

Luverne, MN 56156

Instructors: Elizabeth (Berty) Stearns and Rachel Saum

RSVP to info@projectfoodforest.org

No cost.  Donations to Rock County Community Library or Project Food Forest welcome.

Getting Ready for Spring

Workshop

The Rock County Master Gardeners will give you some tips on gardening, from starting your seeds indoors to winder seeding to watching the calendar dates for the right time to actually begin planting in your garden.  Plus, we will be checking out the library’s “seed catalog”!  Did you know that the library gives away seeds for free?  Come and learn more at your local library.

Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Time: 6-7pm

Location: Rock County Community Library

201 W Main St

Luverne, MN 56156

Instructors: Erin Hamann and the Rock county Master Gardeners

Cost: $5 Register through Luverne Community Education at 507-283-4724

Seed Starting – Homegrown Sioux Empire and Outdoor Campus Series

Workshop

Join Homegrown and Common Roots Seed Library for success with seed starting in the spring! The class will be informational, and participants will be sent home with a packet of seeds to get started on planting.
Age: All ages, youth with an adult

Steps to register
1. gfp.sd.gov/toc-east/
2. Program registration
3. Conservation – View Upcoming Events
4. Scroll down to March 15th class
5. Register for event

Date: Tueseday, March 15, 2022

Time: 6:30pm

Location: Game, Fish, and Parks Outdoor Campus

4500 S Oxbow Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57106-4114, United States

Instructors: Rachel Saum

Cost: Free. Registration required (follow steps above)

Vegetable Gardening 101 Series

Workshop

Set yourself up for a successful vegetable garden. Get your hands dirty with Master Gardener, Jerry Mills, as he lays down a comprehensive foundation for garden to table sustenance.
Each week Jerry will guide you through everything you need to know: the soil and seeds; planning the bed, mulch and water; plant diseases, weeds, unwanted events, and what to do about them.
His method is perfect for anyone who has never picked up a garden hose, and is loaded with info for a weathered gardener.
Take each class individually, or take all 4 weeks of focused know-how so you can hit the ground growing!
Arboretum Members! Look for the MEMBERS ONLY listing to take advantage of your special pricing member’s perk!

Dates:

The DIRT: Thursday, March 17, 2022

The PLOT Plan: Thursday, March 24, 2022

Too MULCH H2O: Thursday, March 31, 2022

“What could possibly go wrong?”: Thursday, April 7, 2022

Time: 6-7:30pm

Location: Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum

1900 S Perry Pl, Sioux Falls, SD 57110

Instructor: Jerry Mills

Cost: $20 per ticket per class. Tickets Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum & East Sioux Falls Historic Site : Discover : Calendar

Propagating Edible Perennials

Workshop

Learn to propagate woody perennials from cuttings.  A hands-on workshop at the Prairie Ally food forest.  Learn to propagate and take home a couple of cuttings of your choice of elderberry, raspberry, juneberry, honeyberry, aronia, and grape!

Date: To be determined, April, 2022

Time: 

Location: Prairie Ally Outdoor Center

308 N Blue Mound Ave, Luverne, MN 56156

Instructor: Sean McFarland

Check back soon for more information!

Foraging- Edible Weeds and Mushrooms – Homegrown Sioux Empire and Outdoor Campus Series

Workshop

The Home Grown Sioux Empire and Outdoor Campus Series program is getting excited for spring and all that nature has to provide. This
class with discuss safe, ethical and legal foraging techniques.
Age: All ages, youth with an adult
Steps to register
1. gfp.sd.gov/toc-east/
2. Program registration
3. Outdoor Skills – View Upcoming Events
4. Scroll down to April 20th class
5. Register for event

Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Time: 6:30pm

Location: Game, Fish, and Parks Outdoor Campus

4500 S Oxbow Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57106-4114, United States

Cost: Free. Registration required (follow steps above)

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