Growing Your Own Food A-Z
The best tasting, most nutritious food is the food you grow yourself.
This course is designed to be a complete beginners guide to growing your own food; from planning, soil and seed starting to pest management, pruning and what to do with all of your delicious food!
Ten 90min in-person classes in Ogden (outdoors)
$200 per person for the series. Up to 15 participants.
Participants will have HANDS-ON learning opportunities/access to a learning garden.
Registration requires a $25 deposit made through Venmo or other arrangement.
Ask about scholarship opportunities.
*Two Foodscaping Utah apprentices get this course for free*
Course Schedule for 2026:
| Planning Vegetables: Best timings, interplanting & multi-cropping | Sa 3/7 10a |
| Seed Starting | Sa 3/14 10a |
| Healthy Soil: promoting soil health, no-till bed prep, nutrient cycling | W 4/1 6p |
| Transplanting Vegetables and Trees | W 4/8 6p |
| Fruit Trees & Grapes: Grow your own fruit | W 4/22 6p |
| Water-wise Irrigation, Drip and Mulch | W 5/6 6p |
| Managing Pests: Integrated Pest Management (IPM), biodiversity and beneficial insects | W 5/20 6p |
| Summer Pruning Fruit Trees & Espalier Fruit Fences | W 6/10 6p |
| Simple Cooking: foodscape to table | W 8/19 6p |
| Simple Preserving: healthy food for winter | W 8/26 6p |
Our Teachers
Our primary instructor will be John Trimble, cofounder of Foodscaping Utah.
Foodscaping Utah es una organización sin fines de lucro, más un grupo de voluntarios, dedicados a ayudar a las personas a empezar a cultivar sus propios alimentos.
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