Home Page    Sitemap    Botany Basics    "You Can Grow!" Workshops    Composting    Soil Building
Hardiness Zone Map   WebRings    "You Can Grow" CD's   "Tid-Bytes" Insights   Garden Pests & Organic Controls
Biodiversity and Genetic Engineering    New Mexico    Companion & Intensive Planting     Permaculture
Labyrinths    Free E-Letter    Xeriscape     Photo Tour I    Photo Tour II    Photo Tour III    Photo Tour IV
About Us    Seed Starting Guide    Creative Garden Design    The Greenzbox    Recommend This Site    Resources & Links
Organic Products    General Gardening Supplies

GIANNANGELO FARMS SOUTHWEST
AVANT-GARDENING: CREATIVE ORGANIC GARDENING



GIANNANGELO FARMS WORKSHOPS
Workshop Schedule 2009
All workshops are $20.00 per person and given in
Northwestern New Mexico, at Giannangelo Farms Southwest, near El Morro National Monument
Please register in advance

Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape

SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC GARDENING/GREENZBOX
9:30 - 2:00 - Bring lunch, hats, gloves, and drinks
Saturday, May 16, 2009

corn tassles in our sustainable organic garden in late July at giannangelo farms southwest
Sustainable Organic Gardening
*Why Organic? Why Sustainable?
*Garden Design, Location, Water Features and Ponds
*Permaculture Gardens, and Xeriscape
*Soil Improvement, Compost, and Mulch
*Shade, Trees, and Conserving Water
*Bio-Diversity and Intensive Planting
*Prevention and Control of Weeds and Pests

LUNCH BREAK 11:30-12

How to Build a and plant a GreenzBox
a photo of the GreenzBox in early May, full of tender salad greens at giannangelo farms southwest
*Simple, Easy to Build, Inexpensive
*How, and Why, it Works
*UV Protection and Water Conservation
*No Weeds, No Pests, No Critters
*Tender Lettuces and Salad Greens
*Soil Improvement, How to Plant a GreenzBox
*Promoting a Gardening Community



A garden is more than just a means of providing food, it is a model of what is possible in a community. Everyone could have a GreenzBox garden and grow healthy, nutritious organic food - thereby promoting a more sustainable way of living, encouraging a local economy via a farmers market creating an arena to discuss gardening experiences, sell their extra produce, and share the bounty.


hands-on rockwall building at one of our rockwork workshops


"LANDSCAPING WITH ROCK AND CEMENT"
"How to build a Rock Wall"
9:30 - 2:30 - Bring lunch, hats, gloves, and drinks
Saturday, May 23, 2009

*Tools, Materials, and Techniques
*Pools, Ponds, and Water Gardens
*Rock Walls, Steps,and Easy Paths

LUNCH BREAK 11:30-12

*Designs
*Mixing Cement
*Hands-on Rockwall Building


a strawbale workshop - building a driveway entry to the gardens


"HOW TO BUILD A STRAWBALE WALL"
"Building Strawbale Walls"
9:30 - 2:30 - Bring lunch, hats, gloves, and drinks
Saturday, June 6, 2009
*Tools, materials, and techniques
*Walls, Foundations, and Designs

LUNCH BREAK 11:30-12

*Hands-on Strawbale Wall Building
*Setting Bales, Fastening Wire and lath
*Cement and Stucco






Workshop Photos

one of the formal garden bedsPurple Cauliflower


plans for building a Giannangelo Farms GreenzBoxthe GreenzBox full of tender greens in late spring


a rock platform in front of the chicken coop door, built during a rockwork workshopa mixing cement demonstration at a rockwork workshop


bales stacked for a 240 foot strawbale wall that surrounded our formal perrenial gardens at our first New Mexico homestacking bales for a strawbale wall at a strawbale workshop


taking a break from building a strawbale wall at a strawbale workshop



"We can learn to imitate nature by creating a natural eco-system, symbiotic relationships that are productive, non-polluting, and beneficial to the whole environment, and thereby sustain all living things within the system."




Website designed and maintained by Giannangelo Farms Southwest
Feedback? Comments, questions, suggestions?
contact us
Created by Frank and Vicky Giannangelo, copyright (c) 2001-2008 by Giannangelo Farms Southwest


Home Page    Sitemap    Botany Basics    "You Can Grow!" Workshops    Composting    Soil Building
Hardiness Zone Map   WebRings    "You Can Grow" CD's   "Tid-Bytes" Insights   Garden Pests & Organic Controls
Biodiversity and Genetic Engineering    New Mexico    Companion & Intensive Planting     Permaculture
Labyrinths    Free E-Letter    Xeriscape     Photo Tour I    Photo Tour II    Photo Tour III    Photo Tour IV
About Us    Seed Starting Guide    Creative Garden Design    The Greenzbox    Recommend This Site    Resources & Links
Organic Products    General Gardening Supplies


Get WildBlue with Satellite Speed Internet for only $49.95/month
Top Garden Sites    Changing LINKS   All Links Directory   Search Engine Optimization and Free Submission

This site is hosted by WestHost - we recommend their services to anyone with a website

WestHost Web Hosting
According to our Web Counter
You are visitor number: