Putting your Vegetable Gardens to Bed for Winter

When?
Thursday, October 12th, 7-8pm

Where?
Virtual (via Zoom)

Description
It’s that time of year again: we’ve harvested all that we can, and are ready to rest up after another growing season. But what should you do with your garden beds to prepare them for the long winter ahead?

Join us and our facilitator Rob Danforth for this workshop on putting your vegetable gardens to bed for winter! Rob will cover not only in-ground beds, but also containers, raised beds, and elevated beds. He will also discuss options for soil saving and amending. We will all be ready tuck our gardens in for their winter rest by the end of this workshop!

Meet your Facilitator
Rob Danforth
Experienced urban food gardener (over 45 yrs.+) & gardening coach (over 12 yrs.+) for Canadian Organic Growers – Ottawa/St Lawrence /Outaouais Chapter, Senior Organic Gardeners, Just Food Ottawa, and private groups. Revised June, 2023.

Past gardening experiences with vegetables, herbs, & the flowers that support them in plots, raised beds, & containers (pots, box beds, elevated beds, cold frames, composters, & recycled items). Backyard (45 yrs.+), Past: Gloucester Allotment Gardens (14 yrs.), Past: Arrowsmith Community Gardens & Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard Garden (7 yrs.). Past donor of organic vegetables & herbs [most of our produce on the 2900 sq. ft. we used to garden] to GEFC & CCRC food banks (10 yrs.).

Gardening coach: on-the-road seminars (122 — 7 with translators), articles (42), videos (4), hands-on workshops (14), consultation booths (9), & zooms (57 — 14 with translators).

Past team member founding SOG and Arrowsmith Community Gardens.

Past volunteer at Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard (14 yrs.).