This month's Grow Your Own workshop covers heart-healthy cooking! Our own Susan Jewell (GYO participant) will be teaching us about heart-healthy choices and providing some delicious snacks! If you have recipes you would like to share, bring them! We love to see what's going on in the kitchen.
Family-friendly - Free admission - Rain or Shine Featuring a vendor market, live music, kid activities, food trucks, a petting zoo, pumpkin decorating, raffles, a plant sale and so much more!
If you'd like to grow your own medicinal plants but aren't sure where to start - start here! This virtual class will be led by ASD's Herb Hub Procurement Manager, Robin Suggs, who has a rather diverse set of skills in horticulture, community development and the production of non-timber forest products (like medicinal plants). His […]
We're hosting a FREE Seed Saving Workshop on November 4, from 1-3 pm at our ASD Greenhouse at 17444 Singingwood Lane in Bristol, VA. Learn about best practices to save seeds, including identification, harvesting, cleaning, storage, and propagation. We'll have flowers and veggies there to practice on, including sunflowers, celosia, tomatoes, peppers, cucamelons, zinnia, and […]
Join us for an introduction to seed starting at our new property at 17444 Singingwood Lane in Bristol, VA. ASD and area Master Gardeners are teaming up to provide you with all the information you need for starting seeds indoors, direct sowing outdoors, propagation, and we'll also touch on seed saving!
Join us on August 26 (6-7:30 pm) at the Four Seasons YMCA Tazewell Community Garden for our Season Extension Grow Your Own Workshop. Attendees will learn about season extension by doing season extension at the Four Seasons YMCA Community Garden! They will learn about various season extension methods that can be used to grow year-round. […]
Join us on August 29 (6-7:30 pm) at the Faith in Action Community Garden for our Season Extension Grow Your Own Workshop. Attendees will learn about season extension by doing season extension at the Faith in Action Community Garden! They will learn about various season extension methods that can be used to grow year-round! This […]
Join us on September 24 (6-7:30 pm) at Tazewell County Public Library (Bluefield Branch) for our Regenerative Agriculture Grow Your Own Workshop. Regenerative Agriculture is more relevant now than ever! Join us to learn about not only regenerative agriculture today but also get enveloped in the (actually) fascinating history of agriculture in the United States. […]
Join us on September 26 (6-7:30 pm) at ASD's Greenhouse for our Regenerative Agriculture Grow Your Own Workshop. We will talk about the principles of regenerative agriculture along with the history of agriculture and how we got to this point. You will walk away saying, "It's all about the soil" for a reason! Regenerative Agriculture […]
Native Cherokee man John Powers, a hobby herbalist turned Certified Medical Herbalist, will join us to talk about medicinal plants! What to use, what not to use, and where to find these fascinating and sometimes illusive (sometimes not) organisms. Email mbradley@asdevelop.org to save your spot.
We will talk about plants you can grow and plants you can find and what to do with them! There are tons of medicinal plants right outside your door (even in cracks in the concrete). These plants have been used for thousands of years to help with numerous ailments. Learn about some of these magical […]
This lesson will provide a guide to warm weather and cold weather crops, plus appropriate garden spacing. You will also learn about “companion plants,” plants you can utilize to help get nitrogen back into your soil. Plus you will learn the difference between sowing and transplanting seeds. This is a virtual class and will be […]