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Teacher: Laura Bruner
Laura completed her masters and doctorate in horticulture from Auburn University in the early 2000s. After completing her graduate studies in horticulture and teaching at Auburn University for several semesters, Laura decided to be home with her children and embarked on home-education. During this time, Laura continued to enjoy horticulture through writing for gardening magazines, teaching Master Gardeners classes and designing landscapes. Now that her children are mostly graduated and older, she has taught horticulture classes at Blue Ridge Community College while operating a landscape design business. Above all, she continues to be struck by awe and wonder at the beauty God created for us to enjoy through plants in our world. Laura is a life long learner because there will not be enough time this side of heaven to learn everything God has created for us to explore in plants, design and beauty.
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GARDENING 101
Target Level: Grades 7th - 12th grade (Parents are welcome to register)
Learn the art and science of gardening by growing plants for both food and beauty. We will be outside learning, hands-on in the garden each week, weather permitting.
Fall Gardening 101 is an exciting hands-on learning experience on how to grow a garden for both food and beauty year-round. Students will learn the chemistry of compost, irrigation and nutrition, the botany involved in growing plants, the biology of managing pests in the garden and the knowledge of cultivating plants through the season to harvest. This course is jam packed with interesting and informative lessons that will teach you all about the science of gardening from designing your space to growing strong plants to dealing with weeds, pests and diseases.
Topics we will cover include: plant biology, plant propagation (seed and cuttings), bulbs, rhizomes and tubers, growing fall crops, the soil ecosystem, pollinators and pests and overwintering the garden.
Textbook (available via Amazon): Gardening for Geeks: All the Science You Need for Successful Organic Gardening, notebook, garden gloves (if desired), trowel.
Schedule:
Thursday 11:30 - 12:30 PM
September 12 - December 5, 2024 (Thanksgiving Break week of November 25, 2024)
Tuition: $200.00
20% discount for sibling and/or parent
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INTRO TO FALL GARDENING - Grades 5K - 6th (Parents are welcome to register)
Learn all about plants and how to grow them with lots of hands-on fun outside in the garden.Hands-on learning in the garden for younger students.
We will study the wonderful creation of plants through 1.) gardening and observing how plants work and why they do what they do, 2.) learning how plants fit into the big picture of ecology with bugs and soil, 3.) propagation - how can we use the nature of plants to grow more of them and 4.) learning how to grow and use plants in ways that are wise and useful.
Topics we will learn about include: seeds, roots, cuttings, bugs, pollinators and soil.
Schedule:
Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
September 12 - October 31, 2024
Tuition: $100.00
For this class only the parent is able to participate for no charge if they are willing to assist the teacher.
**Annual Registration Fee: $85 per student or $145 for family.**
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