These are the workshops that we held in 2010:

• SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2010… Lasagna—Hay Bale Garden Learn how to re-use and recycle kitchen scraps, newspaper and leaves to create a layered sheet-composting garden (often referred to as a "lasagna garden") in your own backyard.


• SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2010…Create a Tote Bag Learn how to re-use all those un-used plastic retail sacks to create re-usable bags of their own.


• SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2010…Basics of Food Drying Preserve what you've grown, eat healthy year round. Learn another way to eat locally even in the winter months when not much is growing in your garden! Methods of drying as well as preparing dried foods will be shared in this fun workshop.


• SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010…Apple Butter Made the Old Fashioned Way You haven't enjoyed apple butter until you've made your own! Learn all the basics—preparation, cooking and participate in an "assembly line" canning process to preserve the goodness over the winter months. Leave with a jar of your own.


• SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16…Foraging—Finding Food in Nature How to find edible food in common places—your back yard for instance. Join an experienced food forager on a tour of The Gardens at Unity Village—outside the fence—identifying and collecting various "food stuffs" found in nature.


• SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2010…Rain Barrel Workshop Construct your own and take it home with you. Construct and take home your own rain barrel. Save on water bills, decrease toxic run off and divert a natural resource—rain water—for lawn and gardening needs.