This series is devoted to sharing knowledge and experience on growing, harvesting, and preserving food and medicine plants in the Northeast climate and landscape.

Learn how to plan your herb and veggie garden from start to finish. In this hands on, full season series we will cover:

3/28 Class 1: PREPARE: planning your garden, growing and buying seedlings, direct seeding, growing microgreens

4/25 Class 2: PLANT: preparing beds and soil, spacing plants, mulching

6/20 Class 3: NURTURE: nourishing plants, perspectives and methods on “weeds” and “pests”

7/18 Class 4: HARVEST: harvesting for maximum yield, and utilizing and preserving the harvest, Fall gardening

9/26 Class 5: WIND DOWN: Preparing your garden for winter, including planting garlic, season reflection – one of the most important aspects of being a successful gardener.

Note: This class takes place outside at the Ananda garden. Please wear sturdy footwear! We suggest you bring garden gloves, a notebook, hat, and whatever you need to be comfortable outdoors.

Isabel Arrieche is a devotee of Mother Earth. Her faith is All is Given. Her practice is through daily preparation of nourishing meals and drinks that enliven the body, senses and spirit. She is a grower, forager, cook, medicine maker, and fermenter. Her foundation is in small-scale “beyond organic” farming, herbalism, cooking, value added products, gardening, permaculture, and environmental non profit work. Her professional experience includes: managing a 2 acre educational market garden with CSA and Farmers’ market presence, building and tending private gardens, and working in vegetable and herb cultivation, fermentation, and farm to table dining at Blooming Hill Farm. She is inspired by traditional foods, food as medicine, and whatever is fresh, abundant, and available. She tends the Ananda Ashram garden and up and coming Ananda Cafe.