Free Colorful Garden Class

Published 5 months ago • 1 min read

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See Details Below for Upcoming Free Class

Rainbow Gardening

Can you grow food and have a beautiful garden? Yes! Many food crops need pollinators, yet the flowers on the crops themselves are often not enough to support the pollinators. By designing your garden to contain both food and year-round color, you ensure not only beauty, but a continuous supply of pollen for the pollinators on which much of our food depends. You can even incorporate both flowers and color in winter with one native plant.

I will be teaching a free class through Meetup about Growing Food and Year-Round Color on May 6 at the Arvada Community Garden - check it out here!https://www.meetup.com/xeriscape-havens-meetup-group/

This event is at 6:00p.m. outside at the garden. FREE and open to the public.
(inclement weather: Vance Street Flats, 5854 Vance St, 6:15pm)
Come early or stay afterwards to visit the seed library and/or get a tour of the garden. Garden opens at 5pm.

You can also check out my website for more: AmyCarynJohnson.com. I am offering services geared more toward harmonizing our environs, mostly outdoors but also indoors. But I am also pursuing a masters degree at the moment, so I will not have a lot of availability yet.

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DISCLAIMERS *I am not a healthcare professional. This guidance is given only to support a healthy connection with nature. If you have any health problems, mental or physical, please seek professional help.

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