Sunday June 30th
Island Gardening: Adapting Chinampas to the Urban Backyard

Want a self-sustaining urban food garden that needs no watering and no fertilizing? Yes it's possible! Join us for a hands-on workshop in building a modern version of a traditional gardening technology which sustained pre-Columbian Mexico City. Chinampas are raised garden beds that are partially submerged and completely surrounded by ecologically rich water, originally they were built in the shallow banks of a lake. We'll be adapting this system to the backyard scale specifically for busy dry climate urbanites.

There will be a potluck lunch so please make a fun dish and bring utensils!

Schedule:
9am-10am Tea, snacks, introductions
10am-10:30am Presentation on Chinampas, the most productive farming system ever designed in the history of the world!
10:30am-12:00pm Assembly of a 13x5 foot system of island garden beds
12:00-1:00pm Potluck lunch
1:00-3:00pm Planting the beds and pond

$5-10 Sliding scale donation

Located at a private residence in Central Los Angeles

Please call 818-275-1094 to RSVP and get directions

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