Classes & Workshops
Sustainable Nantucket offers classes and workshops, often in conjunction with the Nantucket Community School, throughout the year. Class topics focus on issues of sustainability, agriculture, and small business including participation in the Nantucket Farmers and Artisans Market.
Sustainable Nantucket Organic Home Gardening Workshops
Sustainable Nantucket’s Community Agriculture Program brings you two summer workshops geared towards the home gardener. Classes are sponsored by Sustainable Nantucket and the Nantucket Community School, and are taught by Sustainable Nantucket volunteer Dane DeCarlo. Dane is a local gardener and owner of Perennial Gardens Nursery.
Classes:
Hands-on workshop: Organic Backyard and Container Gardening
Learn how to create an organic herb kitchen garden utilizing herbs, flowers and vegetables. Walk away with a functional and decorative patio garden container that you put together yourself, plus the know-how to care for your new plants!
Materials fee at nursery = $45 ; includes pot, soil and plants
Min attendance: 3 people.
Max attendance: 10 people
Thursday, July 8th
11am -12pm
Perennial Gardens, 165 Hummock Pond Rd.
To register contact the Nantucket Community School
Organic Gardening Workshop & Garden Tour
Learn about raised bed organic gardening and tour a flourishing garden. Class will include discussion of such topics as seasonal planting, transplanting, fencing, using natural fertilizers through composting and the use of compost tea, and companion planting for insect and disease control
Min attendance: 3 people.
Max attendance: 10 people
Thursday, July 15th
11am -12pm
Perennial Gardens, 165 Hummock Pond Rd.
To register contact the Nantucket Community School
