Friday, February 24, 2012

Get your garden GROWING this Spring! We'll show you how!






On Sunday March 4th YOU ARE INVITED to PARTICIPATE in a seasonally inspired workshop on how to get your Spring garden GROWING! Now is the time to equip yourself with the skills, the resources, and inspire the passion needed to cultivate a healthy, beautiful and most importantly...a delicious spring garden.

Join us at Graze the Roof on 3/4/2012 at 1p for "Designing your Spring Garden," led by Nikolaus Dyer of Purple Carrot Gardening. Nikolaus designs, installs and maintains edible gardens throughout San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma counties. He has been practicing stewardship in gardens, farms and backyard food forests for over a decade and brings expertise, passion for growing food and a gift for teaching the art of gardening.

This workshop is great for beginning gardeners as well as those who have been at it for awhile - get inspired, learn something new, refine your skills all in the context of GLIDE's unique rooftop gardening project!

COMMUNITY POTLUCK TO FOLLOW WORKSHOP! PLEASE BRING A DISH TO SHARE!
AND BRING YOUR OWN PLATE/BOWL, CUP AND UTENSILS!

PLEASE RSVP at grazetheroof@gmail.com

Sunday March 4th
1p-3p
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

We LOVE worms!








Join Booka Alon, self-professed worm whisperer, at Graze the Roof, GLIDE’s Rooftop Garden on:
Sunday, February 19th from 1p-3p for a two hour Introduction to
Worm Bins for Urban Dwellers.

Did you know, if you compost the scraps from your kitchen using a worm bin, you can create the world’s greatest all in one fertilizer-plant-food-and-pest-deterrent known to mankind?

If you’re on a budget, like to be resourceful and are wondering how to reinforce your organic matter without manure, kelp or other expensive mediums, then VERMI-LOVE is just the workshop for you!

In this in-depth 2 hour workshop, Booka Alon guides you through the process of creating a 2-bin, worm system with readily available materials such as newspaper, rubber tubs and a drill. It’s easier than you think you to maintain a balanced, happy home for the voraciously hungry Red Wrigglers. Aside from the basics of worm bin startups, Alon will also lead a casting harvesting session. From 4 years of vermicomposting practice, Alon will teach some tried and true techniques in gleaning the most castings, while sorting worms methodically and efficiently, so they can return to the worm bin for more rounds of eating your garbage.

RSVP for this unique workshop on vermi-composting at
grazetheroof@gmail.com

WHAT: Meet Booka the Worm Whisperer and learn all about Worm Bins for Urban Dwellers
DATE: Sunday February 19th 2012
TIME: 1p-3p
LOCATION: Graze the Roof the rooftop of 330 Ellis St. Read more...