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The Learn & Grow Educational Series (learn-and-grow.org) teaches you how to grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs anywhere, no yard required! Use inexpensive and/or recycled materials to create your own bucket garden.

Whether you live in an house, apartment, condo, or mobile home, bucket gardening can help you have source of healthy nutritious food. Are you a renter? Take your bucket garden with you when you move!

Foods we have grown in our Bucket Garden:

Vegetables & Herbs: Tomatoes, Peppers, Corn, Potatoes, Onions, Ginger, Basil, Dill, Cumin, Thyme, Lettuce, Kale, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Carrots, Beets, Eggplants, Squash, Cucumbers, Beans, Peas, Celery, Asparagus, Artichokes and more!

Fruits: Dwarf Bananas, Strawberries, Blackberries, Goji Berries, Melons!

What are you waiting for?

Let's Get Growing!🌱🌱🌱

Upcoming events (4)

Creative Ways to Start Seeds for Gardening

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Find out ways to start seeds using sustainable materials and methods in this quick introduction to seed-starting for organic fruit and vegetable gardening. I start with a brief introduction and instruction about seed-starting, then open the floor to questions. Each event runs about 30 minutes.

Can't make the live event? See the pre-recorded video of the presentation portion of this event at https://youtu.be/VJ7zDfaIOPo

The Learn & Grow Educational Series is a nonprofit program of food security and sustainable living instruction. Donations/tips accepted at https://paypal.me/learnandgrow, or Pledge on Meetup above.

Please Note: Because I've had past events crashed by Zoom Bombers, I have taken every possible security measure possible to prevent it from happening again. As such, you need to be signed into your Meetup account once you've RSVPed for this event in order to see the Zoom link to participate.

I will also send out a Direct Message (DM) via Meetup to everyone who RSVPed prior to the start of the meeting that same morning with the link, which you should be able to view once logged into Meetup. If your Meetup account is set up to forward your DMs to your email, you will also get the message in your email inbox.

Nonetheless, I have received reports from legitimate RSVPed participants that they couldn't find the link on the event page and didn't get a DM. Please make sure you don't accidentally have more than one Meetup account! It's possible to have one linked to your Facebook account and another linked to your Google account, for example, and if you log into the wrong one, you won't see the link for this event.

Please verify that you can see the link once you have RSVPed. If you still don't see the link and haven't gotten a DM with it by 20 minutes before the scheduled start time, please DM me directly or post to the event chat to let me know that you can't find the link, and I will DM you directly with the link if you are an RSVPed participant.

Planning What to Grow

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Regardless of how little space you may have, you can find a way to grow fruits and vegetables. But how do you decide what to grow throughout your growing seasons?

Join us for this brief presentation to learn more about planning your urban garden, then comment or DM your questions to your host, Anne M. Zachry, creator of the Learn & Grow Educational Series (https://learn-and-grow.org).

The Learn & Grow Educational Series is a nonprofit program of food security and sustainable living instruction. Donations/tips accepted at https://paypal.me/learnandgrow or through a Pledge here on Meetup, above.

Can't make the live event? No problem! See the YouTube video based on the same content at https://youtu.be/C5OFoMisvKs.

Please Note: Because I've had past events crashed by Zoom Bombers, I have taken every possible security measure possible to prevent it from happening again. As such, you need to be signed into your Meetup account once you've RSVPed for this event in order to see the Zoom link to participate.

I will also send out a Direct Message (DM) via Meetup to everyone who RSVPed prior to the start of the meeting that same morning with the link, which you should be able to view once logged into Meetup. If your Meetup account is set up to forward your DMs to your email, you will also get the message in your email inbox.

Nonetheless, I have received reports from legitimate RSVPed participants that they couldn't find the link on the event page and didn't get a DM. Please make sure you don't accidentally have more than one Meetup account! It's possible to have one linked to your Facebook account and another linked to your Google account, for example, and if you log into the wrong one, you won't see the link for this event.

Please verify that you can see the link once you have RSVPed. If you still don't see the link and haven't gotten a DM with it by 20 minutes before the scheduled start time, please DM me directly or post to the event chat to let me know that you can't find the link, and I will DM you directly with the link if you are an RSVPed participant.

Understanding Soil & Fertilizers

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Do you struggle with keeping plants healthy, but want to grow your own fruits and vegetables to reduce your dependence on the commercialized food supply? Soil quality is a significant part of successful gardening.

Learn to use organic soil quality management techniques to create healthy ecosystems for the plants you want to grow. See how we control the soil quality in the self-watering containers in the Learn & Grow Virtual Sustainability Learning Center and test garden at this event.

Can't make the live event? See the pre-recorded video at https://youtu.be/JiO7xR1RwKw

The Learn & Grow Educational Series is a nonprofit program of food security and sustainable living instruction. Donations/tips accepted at https://paypal.me/learnandgrow or through a Pledge here on Meetup, above.

Please Note: Because I've had past events crashed by Zoom Bombers, I have taken every possible security measure possible to prevent it from happening again. As such, you need to be signed into your Meetup account once you've RSVPed for this event in order to see the Zoom link to participate.

I will also send out a Direct Message (DM) via Meetup to everyone who RSVPed prior to the start of the meeting that same morning with the link, which you should be able to view once logged into Meetup. If your Meetup account is set up to forward your DMs to your email, you will also get the message in your email inbox.

Nonetheless, I have received reports from legitimate RSVPed participants that they couldn't find the link on the event page and didn't get a DM. Please make sure you don't accidentally have more than one Meetup account! It's possible to have one linked to your Facebook account and another linked to your Google account, for example, and if you log into the wrong one, you won't see the link for this event.

Please verify that you can see the link once you have RSVPed. If you still don't see the link and haven't gotten a DM with it by 20 minutes before the scheduled start time, please DM me directly or post to the event chat to let me know that you can't find the link, and I will DM you directly with the link if you are an RSVPed participant.

Permaculture & Companion Planting

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Learn about permaculture, including companion planting, self-watering container gardening, gray water recapturing, vermiculture composting, and more, during this online event. This instruction is part of the Learn & Grow Educational Series, a nonprofit program of food security and sustainable living curriculum. Find out more about Learn & Grow at https://learn-and-grow.org.

Can't make the live event? See our pre-recorded video of the presentation portion of this event at: https://youtu.be/yA0CgekIsnQ

The Learn & Grow Educational Series is a nonprofit program of food security and sustainable living instruction. Donations/tips accepted at https://paypal.me/learnandgrow or through a Pledge here on Meetup, above.

Please Note: Because I've had past events crashed by Zoom Bombers, I have taken every possible security measure possible to prevent it from happening again. As such, you need to be signed into your Meetup account once you've RSVPed for this event in order to see the Zoom link to participate.

I will also send out a Direct Message (DM) via Meetup to everyone who RSVPed prior to the start of the meeting that same morning with the link, which you should be able to view once logged into Meetup. If your Meetup account is set up to forward your DMs to your email, you will also get the message in your email inbox.

Nonetheless, I have received reports from legitimate RSVPed participants that they couldn't find the link on the event page and didn't get a DM. Please make sure you don't accidentally have more than one Meetup account! It's possible to have one linked to your Facebook account and another linked to your Google account, for example, and if you log into the wrong one, you won't see the link for this event.

Please verify that you can see the link once you have RSVPed. If you still don't see the link and haven't gotten a DM with it by 20 minutes before the scheduled start time, please DM me directly or post to the event chat to let me know that you can't find the link, and I will DM you directly with the link if you are an RSVPed participant.

Past events (70)

The Basics of Self-Watering Container Gardening

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