Target audience: Beginners with little to no gardening experience.

1. Example Content:

   • Soil Science: Understanding soil types, testing soil, amending soil for optimal plant growth.

   • Plant Selection: Choosing the right plants for your climate, garden space, and personal preferences (including vegetables, herbs, flowers, and shrubs).

   • Planting Techniques: Proper planting depths, spacing, and care for seedlings and transplants.

   • Basic Garden Care: Watering techniques, weeding strategies, and recognizing common pests and diseases.

   • Hands-on activity: Participants plant seeds or seedlings in a container to take home.

Target audience: Those interested in growing their own food.

1. Example Content:

   • Planning an Edible Garden: Choosing the right location, considering sunlight and water needs, crop rotation, and companion planting.

   • Growing Vegetables: Specific techniques for growing popular vegetables (e.g., tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, cucumbers) including trellising and supporting plants.

   • Herb Gardening: Growing and using culinary herbs, creating an herb spiral or container garden.

   • Fruit Production: Growing berries, fruit trees, or vines in the home garden (depending on climate).

   • Hands-on activity: Participants start seeds for a salad garden or plant a small herb garden.

Target audience: Gardeners interested in sustainable and eco-friendly practices.

1. Example Content:

   • Principles of Organic Gardening: Building healthy soil, avoiding synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, and working with nature.

   • Composting: Learning how to compost kitchen scraps and yard waste, building a compost bin.

   • Natural Pest Control: Identifying beneficial insects, using companion planting, and making organic pest control solutions.

   • Organic Fertilizers: Using compost, worm castings, and other natural fertilizers to nourish plants.

   • Hands-on activity: Participants build a mini worm composting bin or learn how to make an organic pest spray.

Target audience: Gardeners who want to support local ecosystems and conserve water.

1. Example Content:

   • Benefits of Native Plants: Supporting pollinators, conserving water, reducing maintenance, and increasing biodiversity.

   • Selecting Native Plants: Choosing the right native plants for your region and garden conditions.

   • Creating a Native Plant Garden: Designing a garden that mimics natural habitats, incorporating different layers and plant communities.

   • Caring for Native Plants: Watering needs, pruning techniques, and recognizing potential pests or diseases.

   • Hands-on activity: Participants create a mini native plant garden in a container or design a native plant landscape plan for their yard.

arget audience: Gardeners who want to learn specific skills for different times of the year.

1. Examples:

   • Spring Planting Workshop: Starting seeds indoors, preparing garden beds, and planting seedlings.

   • Summer Pruning Workshop: Proper pruning techniques for different plant types, maintaining plant health and shape.

   • Fall Garden Prep Workshop: Preparing the garden for winter, planting cover crops, and protecting plants from frost.

• Focus: Introduce young children to the wonders of gardening through sensory exploration and hands-on activities.

• Content:

  • Seed Exploration: Examining different seeds, learning about what seeds need to grow, and sorting seeds by size and shape.

  • Soil Sensory Play: Feeling and exploring different soil textures, making mud pies, and learning about the importance of healthy soil.

  • Planting Seeds: Planting easy-to-grow seeds (like sunflowers or beans) in small pots or a raised garden bed.

  • Watering and Caring for Plants: Learning how to gently water seedlings and observing their growth.

  • Garden Scavenger Hunt: Exploring the garden to find different colors, shapes, and textures of plants.

• Hands-on activity: Decorating their own plant pot and planting a seed to take home.

• Focus: Build on basic gardening knowledge and introduce more advanced concepts.

• Content:

  • Plant Life Cycle: Learning about the different stages of plant growth, from seed to flower to fruit.

  • Parts of a Plant: Identifying the roots, stem, leaves, flowers, and fruits of a plant and understanding their functions.

  • Garden Helpers: Learning about beneficial insects, worms, and other creatures that help gardens thrive.

  • Creating a Mini Garden: Designing and planting a small garden in a container or a designated garden bed.

  • Garden Journaling: Documenting their gardening experiences through drawings and simple writing.

• Hands-on activity: Building a bug hotel to attract beneficial insects or creating a miniature garden in a terrarium.

• Focus: Explore the science behind gardening and conduct simple experiments.

• Content:

  • Photosynthesis: Understanding how plants use sunlight to make food.

  • Pollination: Learning about the role of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in plant reproduction.

  • Composting: Exploring the decomposition process and creating a compost bin.

  • Seed Germination Experiment: Conducting an experiment to test different factors that affect seed germination (e.g., light, water, temperature).

  • Building a Vertical Garden: Learning about vertical gardening techniques and building a small vertical garden using recycled materials.

• Hands-on activity: Dissecting a flower to examine its parts or building a simple water filtration system using plants.