Resilience for Renters: Grow Your Own Food

Growing your own food is a key resilience strategy that lowers your grocery bills, makes healthier eating easy and fun, and helps combat climate change! No yard? No extra money? No problem! In this hands-on workshop at our lush outdoor classroom, you will learn many ways to grow food as a renter. Instructor Lori Caldwell, a long-time renter herself, will demonstrate creative solutions and cover topics such as:

• Container gardening, indoors and outside
• Vertical gardening (hanging pots and peats, pallets and trellises)
• From concrete to food: creating temporary raised beds (wattle, hugel, strawbale)
• Plant selection, crop rotation, and maintaining soil fertility
• Landlord incentives for lawn conversion
• Free resources (seed libraries, cuttings, crop swaps, compost giveaways)
• Other creative strategies (yardshare, funky containers, etc.)