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How to Register

If you would like to register for the workshops, please:

Call us at 416-466-2841
Email us at workshops@grassrootsstore.com

All of our workshops are located at our Riverdale store location. We require pre-payment on our workshops.

Current Workshops

Start Your Garden Early
Seed Starting

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Start Your Garden Early

(ColdFraming and other Season Extension Techniques)

Date: March 12, Monday
Time: 7:30 pm
Host: Kyla Muir
Price: $15 / person
Maximum number of guests: 10 people

Learn how simple ColdFrames, often built from recycled materials, can help you get an early start growing foods, and keep it growing much later in the fall. Learn how the same space can be used to grow three successive crops, instead of one, across the seasons this year.

See the wide variety of materials easily available to start your garden early at no cost, or for very low cost, often without needing any construction skills. A hands-on workshop/demonstration will be part of the presentation. Explore a wide range of scale models that will give you 3-D examples that you can use in any outdoor space from a square foot to an acre.

Kyla Dixon-Muir has been in the garden every single week – including right through the winter – for many years. She grows foods, using organic practices, in a wide range of low-cost and no-cost ColdFrames, many of which do not require construction skills. Kyla’s book, Growing To Eat –Through All Four Seasons is in its third Canadian edition. She is, as a volunteer, the Development Coordinator at Riverdale Meadow Community Garden in downtown Toronto.

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Early Seed Starting

Date: March 19, Monday
Time: 7:30 pm
Host: Kyla Muir
Price: $15 / person
Maximum number of guests: 10 people

From seed forms and varietals, to growing media, through hardening-off, to transplanting out vs starting in your garden bed; including knowing soil types, and seeds to start indoors vs outside, through potting sanitation and tool hygiene practices.

Kyla Dixon-Muir has been in the garden every single week – including right through the winter – for many years. She grows foods, using organic practices, in a wide range of low-cost and no-cost ColdFrames, many of which do not require construction skills. Kyla’s book, Growing To Eat –Through All Four Seasons is in its third Canadian edition. She is, as a volunteer, the Development Coordinator at Riverdale Meadow Community Garden in downtown Toronto.

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