Extend Your Growing Season

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Adults
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Don't let the colder seasons stop you from gardening. Here you will learn how to turn your garden into a year-round food factory.

Topics covered:

  • Timing your plantings, crop protections and harvesting veggies and herbs all year long
  • Learning what types of cold-hardy veggies and herbs thrive in freezing and sub-freezing temperatures
  • Planting for fall, winter and spring harvest
  • Easy, moderate and advanced crops to grow in the fall and winter
  • Harvesting greens in freezing weather

Registration required.

Mark Gostkiewics is the owner of Tri Gable Lea Farm in Colchester, which has been in the family for generations. In 2013, he started the farm's first CSA, and since then has added classes on natural processes, organic and sustainable practices, homesteading, caring for plants from seed to plate.

Presented in partnership with Tri Gable Lea Farm.