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