Hunter Park GardenHouse offers certification program for those seeking experience in gardening for high-density neighborhoods
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Nicole Halvorsen
Monday, Jan. 27 — The Hunter Park Garden House on Lansing’s East Side is offering an Urban Gardener certification program next month for beginner to intermediate home-gardeners.
The program consists of 10 instructional, lecture-style sessions to learn basic yard and greenhouse gardening skills, featuring guest speakers Saturday afternoons and hands-on labs taught by Garden House staff Tuesday evenings. The skills will be “appropriate for high density, small lot neighborhoods,” according to the program’s website.
Participants will plant and care for a garden together over the duration of the program. Topics to be covered include when to plant certain crops; making compost; pests and diseases; planning a garden layout and more.
Registration fees vary. The fee for the program is $100, but drops to $75 by committing to 20 work-share hours, and $50 for committing to 40 work-share hours. Work share hours are hands-on volunteer hours at the Garden House.
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