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 2023:
Planning Vegetables: Best timings, interplanting & multi-cropping | Sa 2/11 10a |
Seed Starting | Sa 3/11 10a |
Healthy Soil: promoting soil health, no-till bed prep, nutrient cycling | Sa 3/25 10a |
Transplanting Vegetables and Trees | W 4/5 6p |
Fruit Trees & Grapes: Grow your own fruit | W 4/26 6p |
Water-wise Irrigation, Drip and Mulch | W 5/10 6p |
Managing Pests: Integrated Pest Management (IPM), biodiversity and beneficial insects | W 5/31 6p |
Summer Pruning Fruit Trees & Espalier Fruit Fences | W 6/14 6p |
Simple Cooking: foodscape to table | W 8/9 6p |
Simple Preserving: healthy food for winter | W 8/23 6p |
Our Teachers
Our primary instructor will be John Trimble, cofounder of Foodscaping Utah. John will be periodically joined by rockstar foodscapers Holly and Terry.
Foodscaping Utah is a nonprofit organization and volunteer group dedicated to helping people get started growing their own food.
