Dig In: Organic Garden Primer – How To Grow Your Best Garden

Organic Garden Primer: How To Grow Your Best Garden

Saturday, May 25 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

at Vedgewater, 6300 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660

Rain Date: Friday May 31 at 11 AM

Join Edgewater Environmental Coalition for the first of our monthly Dig-In Workshops at Vedgewater Community Garden. This workshop will cover how and when to plant, companion planting, soil testing, pest control, and growing techniques, including row versus square foot gardening, composting, organic versus veganic gardening, and more.

The workshop is lead by Ayo Ma’at, a Vedgewater Garden Leader with 50 years gardening experience. Ma’at has gardened and taught organic and veganic  gardening to adults and youth. Maat is an organic seed saver, nutritional educator, and Quantum Living Advocate (QLA). She continues her research studies in  organic gardening from the sacred monastic medicine perspective.  She resonates with community gardening, whole health, and a silent ministry of Love and Peace. Despite her use of a wheelchair, she continues to garden. She is a vegan who eats organic. She has gardened in West Ridge, Rogers Park, Edgewater, Uptown,  Woodlawn, Bronzeville, and Eden Green. She was first taught vegetable gardening without chemicals by her mother in Chicago and experienced as a child the wonders of farming and wild herbs growing in the Cherokee Creole tradition on her grandmother’s Louisiana farm.

Upcoming Monthly Workshops

June: David  Oakes

July: Dominique Newsome

August: Aziza Abdulmalik

August: Karen Schauwecker

September: 48th Ward Alderwoman

October/November: Renee Patten