After years of walking in dark, with the big yard I wanted to do things the right way. Since I was trying to figure out the best and efficient ways to garden in sandy soil with a climate where there is no rain all summer ( 2 months straight), I needed help.
I started reading blogs, talking with friends who have cute, edible yards. I wanted one of hose but how?
MLF, as always was there to help me. The walking MLFogle (derived from google), was there for me again :) He had heard of Seattle Tilth, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to educating people to garden organically and conserve natural resources. There was my answer, right on their website.
I was so intrigued by what I read and got so excited. I had a HUGE resource now. As I was looking the classes that they offered, I saw the one that was just the right one for my needs. COG, comprehensive organic gardening. A multi session course that would help me to build my foundation. The day I called the office, they told me the class was cancelled due to low registration. Then I got a call, the class was going to be on WOHOOOO. I was so excited.
It was a smaller class than their usual enrollment but everybody was so excited to be there. We started with how to develop a healthy soil and ended up with saving seeds. We had hands on experience on Saturdays and as a beginner group we even managed to impress the Master Composter of Bradner Gardens, Jim! Our compost had heated up so well in our first shot and he repeated many times, that we were the first Tilth group to start a good compost!!! The whole process and COG deserves many many pages of blogging :)
However, thanks to everyone at Tilth as I learnt so much in 7 sessions that I am really proud of myself. I will continue to volunteer at every opportunity as I can. They helped me to build such a great foundation that I would like to give back!
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