The Natural Garden offers a butterfly gardening class.
Who is that in my garden? How can I attract more?! Some butterflies, like the Monarch, are so easily recognized. But who else is visiting your flowers? We’ll talk a bit about identifying other common butterflies and how you can attract more to your garden. If weather permits, we will have some live butterflies to help us in our learning.
Enrollment Deadline: Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Class Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm – 2: 00 pm
Location: The Natural Garden
Fee: free
Instructor: Janie Grillo
The Natural Garden offers gardening classes.
Native and ornamental grasses are well suited to the needs of an environmentally concerned world. Learn why it’s important to plant grasses early, and how to create and maintain sustainable landscapes with the “hair of the earth”.
Enrollment Deadline: Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009
Time: 9:00 am – 10: 00 am
Location: The Natural Garden
Fee: free
Instructor: Pat Hollingsworth
Join in The GGM membership! Your contributions support educational programs, lectures and the commitment to the health-giving nature of locally grown food, sustainability and conservation of resources. Your contribution also helps support the free Kids corner and Chef demos at the market and your individual membership includes a range of benefits that are feature below.
- Seed Membership ($25 or more donation) – you will receive a coffee mug/GGM discount card – honored at concurring businesses/events. Membership Specials.
- Planting Membership ($50 or more donation) – the above membership and $10 off the each lecture/workshop/class you choice during the 2009 season.
- Sprouting Membership ($100 or more donation) – the above membership and a lunch for two at the Geneva Green Market.
- Growing Membership ($250 or more donation) – the above membership and (20% off home cooking demonstration by Jennifer Downing, Nourish) Learn useful cooking techniques with locally grown food.
- Harvest Membership ($500 or more donation) – the above membership and a basket filled the freshest products from the Geneva Green Market
- Geneva Green Market Benefactor ($1000 or more donation) – the above membership and will receive a dinner for two at Niche Restaurant in Geneva. (Excludes alcohol and gratuity)
Mission Statement
Geneva Green Market, a non-for profit distributional and educational association which:
- Promotes the sale of locally produced products from local family farms and local food producers who provide freshness, biodiversity, the highest quality organic/sustainable food and the basis of regional cuisine.
- Provides an educational forum for consumers to learn the uses and benefits of quality, locally grown or prepared food products. To establish an appreciation of nutritional value of produce and to provide more flavor, freshness and variety of locally grown product.
- Preserves the environment for future generations while improving the quality of food.
- Supports a partnership between local chefs, farmers, producers and merchants to mutually enhance, develop, and promote the local food economy.
- Promotes the green community, and become the town crier of the events of the Fox River Valley.
- Creates partnerships with other non-for profits organizations that promote green living, preservation of our natural resources, gardening information, and other aligned interests.
Thus far the Geneva Green Market, NFP is entirely run by volunteers. Unlike other farmers’ markets, we only charge our vendors a minimal donation fee that goes towards necessary expenses. This helps our vendors remain economically viable. In time we hope to build up membership enough to support a salaried market manager position to help the Geneva Green Market run smoothly for years to come. Serving on the board of directors for the Geneva Green Market, NFP are Karen Start, president, Connie Weaver, co-founder, Georgine Bosak, treasurer, Diana Morin, secretary, Trisha Margulies, member, Ted Richter, farmer, Beth Propst, farmer, Jennifer Downing, chef, Jennifer Echert, member. This not-for-profit group of volunteers seeks to educate and support the community in their efforts to eat locally.
To join the GGM,NFP membership click here to email or send email to info [at] genevagreenmarket [dot] org or call 630-208-9321
Learn how to create, grow, and maintain your garden. Specialists and master gardeners will be here to answer any questions and give advice. Topics include herbs, flowers, vegetables, heirloom plants and table scrapes.
Learn about attracting birds and butterflies, wildlife control, composting, pest control, organic fertilizers and more. Kids can have fun too by planting seeds in biodegradable pots and creating sprout necklaces. Win a watering can from participating shops that will be raffled off at the end of the day.
Start a Seedy Relationship with your yard! Thinking about planting a garden, we are here to help you. The GGM, NFP membership is launching a series of courses to help you in gardening, health and living a little greener. All ages welcome!
The kick off workshop series brought to you by the GGM, NFP membership:
- Who: Craig MacLean from The Pure Gardener, Expert Gardener
- Where: Inglenook Pantry, 11 North Fifth Street, Geneva Il 60134
- When: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
- Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
- Cost: materials $35 non-members, $25 members
Get a jump-start on the gardening season! Save money by starting your own vegetables or flowers. The GGM, NFP is offering a workshop on how to start seeds indoors, how to buy supplies to transplanting out into your garden. You will have seeds planted and knowledge on how to be transplanted in the ground. Working with vegetable and flower seed.
You will receive seed starting supplies and will take home starts and seeds planted in the workshop. If you have seeds bring them, but seeds will be provided also. Craig MacLean from The Pure Gardener, 502 W State St, Geneva IL. is also talking about sprout, onions, and garlic.
Please register by emailing us here, include your name and contact info or simply call 630.208.9321.
