Programs
City Sprouts offers workshops and classes, online learning tools for educators, educational programming, and more to educate the community about gardening and healthy lifestyle choices. Click on our programs below for more details!
Programs
City Sprouts offers workshops and classes, online learning tools for educators, educational programming, and more to educate the community about gardening and healthy lifestyle choices. Click on our programs below for more details!
growing gardeners workshops
The Growing Gardeners Workshop Series is a collaboration between City Sprouts and The Big Garden. We work together to offer four seasons of hands-on workshops that feature skills and techniques for every gardener and urban farmer: growing, cooking, preserving and eating healthy local food. All workshops are free and open to all ages.
Our workshops are broken up into three main tracks: Urban Ag School, Herbal Medicine Cabinet, and Culinary Workshops. We also have smaller workshops attached to various community events that we have throughout the year. Check out all of our workshop offerings on our Growing Gardeners website.
We love having guest teachers from our community lead workshops! Are you knowledgable about a subject that you'd like to share in a workshop? Reach out to our Education Manager and explain what skills you'd like to share.
growing gardeners workshops
The Growing Gardeners Workshop Series is a collaboration between City Sprouts and The Big Garden. We work together to offer four seasons of hands-on workshops that feature skills and techniques for every gardener and urban farmer: growing, cooking, preserving and eating healthy local food. All workshops are free and open to all ages.
Our workshops are broken up into three main tracks: Urban Ag School, Herbal Medicine Cabinet, and Culinary Workshops. We also have smaller workshops attached to various community events that we have throughout the year. Check out all of our workshop offerings on our Growing Gardeners website.
We love having guest teachers from our community lead workshops! Are you knowledgable about a subject that you'd like to share in a workshop? Reach out to our Education Manager and explain what skills you'd like to share.
Wed, Aug 23
|City Sprouts Urban Farm
Soil + Water
This course will introduce participants to the complex relationship of soils and water and help growers build capacity to conserve water and maximize irrigation efficiency, respond to water stress, and prevent erosion and nutrient loss.
Time & Location
Aug 23, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
City Sprouts Urban Farm, 5420 N 3rd Street, Omaha, NE 68110
About the Event
The soil-water relationship is vital for soil formation, decomposition, water purification, nutrient and mineral transport and many other natural dynamics relevant to growers. In the absence of sufficient water, soils cannot sustain above-ground plant or below-ground microbial life. However, excess water can be destructive, leaching and eroding soils. This course will introduce participants to the complex relationship of soils and water and help growers build capacity to conserve water and maximize irrigation efficiency, respond to water stress, and prevent erosion and nutrient loss. This workshop will be held in the field at CS urban farm site, and participants will have the opportunity to view methods of conservation irrigation in practice on the site.
Registration fees for Growing Gardeners Workshops are suggested donations of $5/person for lecture-style classes, and $10/person for value-added classes (i.e., take-home goods, cooking classes, etc.). No one will be turned away for inability to pay.
Part of City Sprouts' mission is to provide educational opportunities to the community. Please be honest about what you can afford, so we may continue to provide equitable opportunities for all. Thank you!