SJCC Kesher Community Garden Lecture Series

The SJCC Kesher Community Garden invites you to learn more about home gardening, organic gardening and gardening with your famiily with the NEW SJCC Kesher Community Garden lecture series at the SJCC Mercer Island campus. 

Featured Lectures:

"Regional Food"

• Sunday, May 15, 10:30 a.m.
• Farmer Adam McCurdy will talk about how eating fresh, locally grown organic produce can positively affect your greater well-being and overall health.Learn some easy planting secrets from a 13-year farmer to help you succeed in growing your own food in your yard or your P-Patch plot. Farmer Adam will also talk about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) concept and the importance of our regional food system and ways we can support and benefit from it. Register now >>

"Children's Wellbeing Garden"

• Thursday, June 9, 7 p.m.
• Rita Howard, garden designer, educator, therapist, and trained and experienced herbalist, talks about planting and using safe, gentle herbs that can help children.  We'll explore herbs that can help with everything from scraped knees to nightmares.

"Compost Happens"

• Thursday, July 14, 7 p.m.
• Master recycler/composter Bill Peregrine shows you the lazy way to make “black gold with” the cold composting technique – a low effort, high return process. For more industrious gardeners, Bill will explain how you can motivate nature’s workforce and create compost in as little as three months. Whichever is for you, you’ll learn how nature is your friend and ready to help you in your garden year-round.

"Herbavoracious Cooking"

• Wednesday, August 17, 7 p.m.
• Michael Natkin brings a cooking demonstration to the J. Michael’s web site, herbivoracious.com, is a four-time winner of “Saveur” magazine’s “site we love.”