Families from throughout Orange County can expect their kids to come home with dirty hands after a day at one of the Orange County Great Park's Children's Gardening Workshops in 2014. The free monthly workshop series at the Great Park's Farm + Food Lab provides hands-on gardening activities for children ages 3-to-9. The 2014 series of Children's Gardening Workshops is set to begin this Sunday, January 12.
Kids can participate in creative workshops, such as Growing a Rainbow, Three Sisters Gardening and The Web of Life and will discover and practice sustainable gardening. Kids can take home their new skills and apply them in their own garden with seeds, nectar flowers and environmentally friendly snail traps made in these special Great Park workshops.
The Children's Gardening Workshops will take place every second Sunday of the month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and run every 30 minutes beginning Sunday, January 12.
All workshops are free to the public and run through June 8, 2014. The Children's Gardening Workshop series has been developed in cooperation with the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Orange County and features instruction from gardening experts on sustainable home gardening practices.
Publications written to assist homeowners in the management of their citrus. Questions on varieties, fertilizers, irrigations, pests and diseases are answered.
contributions of the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Orange County to the
Orange County Great Park’s Farm + Food Lab.
Since July 2009, the Master Gardeners have collectively donated more than 10,000 volunteer hours to the Great
Park and have helped make the Farm + Food Lab one of the Great Park’s most popular features. From hosting regular garden workshops for children and adults alike to daily maintenance and staffing, the success of the Farm + Food Lab has been driven by the Master Gardeners and we’re proud to count them as partners.
Planted from seed Sept. 26 and Oct 13, respectively (left to right), two classes split down the middle of the box.
Radishes, Carrots, Spinach, Lettuces, Broccoli and Sugar Snap Peas.
3rd graders will be harvesting their Radishes this week!
The other salad components in their classroom box - lettuces, broccoli, sugar snap peas and carrots - will be harvested in early January.
So far so good at Red Hill Lutheran, hooray for success in the school garden.
The students, teachers, and administrators are in love with the program. I'm thrilled to extend my past experience with a new crowd
-Kim
It is widely known for it’s Butterfly Grove – providing, sustaining and enriching a local habitat for some of our planets most amazing creatures – including the majestic Monarch Butterfly.