Classes with Lowcountry Local First and Trident Tech

New 2011 classes offered by Trident Technical College's Continuing Education's Sustainable Agriculture Program in partnership with Lowcounty Local First.

www.lowcountrylocalfirst.org

See Link Below for Trident Tech’s Catalogue listing of Spring classes open now for registration:

Trident's Continuing Education Green Course and Sustainable Agriculture Page
http://www.tridenttech.edu/21337.htm

Instructor’s Name: Buster Herrington
Course Info (Title): Tractors

Class fee: $79.00

Location: St Paul's Parish Site, classroom 104

Date: Saturday, March 26th, 9am -1pm

Class description: Parts, operation, safety and maintenance

Instructor’s Name: Jenny Bloom
Course Info (Title): Market Gardens
Class fee: $169.00

Location: St Paul's Parish Site, Classroom 104

Date: Monday, April 4,11,18, 25 from 6:30-8:30pm

Class description: Growing and Marketing from a Small Scale Farming Perspective

Instructor’s Name: Kari Whitley
Course Info (Title): Intro to Sustainable Agriculture
Class fee: $259.00
Location: St Paul's Parish Site, Classroom 104
Date: Thursdays, April 7- June 2, 6:00-8:30
Class description: The Basics for Growing Food Locally

Instructor’s Name: Roger Francis
Course Info (Title): Local Soils and Soil Amendments Class fee: $169.00
Location: St Paul's Parish Site, Classroom 104
Date: Thursdays, June 2, 9, 16, 23 form 6:30-8:30
Class description: Learn about our local soils and how best to amend them to maximize your gardens yield

Instructor’s Name: Jenny Bloom
Course Info (Title): Composting
Class fee: $79.00
Location: St Paul's Parish Site, Classroom 104
Date: Monday, June 6 and June 13th from 6:30-8:30pm
Class description: Composting in piles, worm boxes and the best ways to incorporate compost into you garden.

Instructor’s Name: Danielle Spies
Course Info (Title): Propagation
Class fee: $159.00
Location: Sea Island Savory Herbs, Johns Island
Date: Saturdays, September 10th and 17th, 9:00am- 1:00pm
Class description: Seeding, soils, and cuttings; the basics of propagation for any size grower

**If the Tractor Class on 3/26 does not fill with 10 bodies by next week, we will reschedule for Summer or Fall semester.

Follow this link to register for any one of the Spring classes. Summer classes will be open for registration in April.

Trident's Continuing Education Registration Page
http://www.tridenttech.edu/1453.htm

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Trident's Green Initiative Blog
http://ttcgreenblog.blogspot.com/

Let's get our weeding on at this week's meeting - Tuesday, March 29 6pm

Great job everyone who came out to work this weekend on prettying up the raised beds in the PolSci garden.

This week's meeting will be at the garden at 6pm this Tuesday, 3/29. We are aiming to do some weeding then (luckily it's supposed to be a clear day), outline the next steps for the garden, and hopefully get some of the seedlings into the ground. So it is going to be a productive, awesome time! We need as many gardeners as possible to get the plants growin'!

Welcome, Spring 2011!

This blog has been dormant for too long. Let it be known that Winter hibernation is officially over, and work has begun on the reincarnation of the Political Science garden on Coming Street.

For all of you who are unaware, the Poli-Sci Garden consists of three contiguous 4' by 8' raised beds. In total, we have 96 sq. feet of planting space!

This past Spring and Summer, the plants flourished: cauliflower, mustard greens, dill, green onions, and more. Since they were left free to grow "wild" this past Fall and Winter, we will be cleaning up the beds this weekend, which means we'll be weeding and pulling out the plants we want to transplant elsewhere in order to make room for the new seedlings we sowed last week at Adam's house.

On Saturday, March 26, we'll be painting some additional wood panels white to spruce up the aesthetics of the place (and hopefully we'll be weeding, as well!), and on Sunday a couple of the design-minded members will install the freshly-painted wood panels. The timing for Saturday's garden festivities is 4:00pm, but that could change! Keep your eyes on the blog for more details.

Thank you to all members who have shown up to get this planting show on the road. And remember, no planting or gardening experience is necessary to come out and learn; we want everyone to help pitch in!

Check out C of C Urban Ag on Facebook, too, if you're into that type of thing!