What Kinds of Workshops Do We Put On?
CFI offers a variety of workshops throughout the year with topics covering garden planning, planting, harvesting, and food preparation. We seek to provide hands-on opportunities to build wellness, knowledge, and skills in the garden and kitchen. Examples of a few of our past workshops include fruit tree pruning and grafting, seed saving, seasonal cooking, food preservation, cover crops, and season extension techniques.
Community Gardeners and CFI members receive workshop updates by email. The general public can learn about workshops on our events calendar or on social media. For most workshops, we invite a donation on a sliding scale to attend.
Share Your Expertise
Our workshops are peer to peer, meaning that we recruit community members to host them. We love to facilitate the sharing of unique expertise and how it relates to the Appalachian region. If you have a workshop suggestion or are interested in leading your own workshop, please contact us.
Upcoming Workshops
Follow us on Facebook or view the calendar below for our list of upcoming workshops and updates on changes in time or location!
Learn the basics of small-scale season extension techniques to increase the length of your growing season. Join us for a discussion about cold hardy crops, building low tunnels, tunnel maintenance, and more! Led by Keith Wilde.
The Eastside Community Garden is located off of E. State St by the E. State Dog Park. Be sure to drive down Park Place, and follow the drive all the way around towards the entrance to the Waste Water Treatment Plant. The garden is tucked behind the dog park. Garden is accessible via bike path, or just a short walk from the Athens Public Library.
Workshops are open to the public, $5 for non-members and free for members.
Don't know what to do with your garden over the winter? This workshop, followed by a hands on garlic planting, will teach the basics of planting garlic, how to tend to it over the winter, how to store it, and how it benefits health.
Held at West State OU Student Farm:
Via bike - off the bike path near gravel pathway that leads to OU Innovation Center
Via car - take West State St past Millers Chicken and OU Innovation Center, take gravel path after innovation center but before driving range
Led by Dr. Art Trese
This workshop is open to the public. Free for CFI members and $5 for non-members.
