Welcome to "Out of the Garden Shed"
In this demonstration-based video course, we'll learn the fundamentals of joyful, playful edible gardening at home, from plan, to seed, to weed, to water. What makes this course extra special is its focus on adaptations and accessibility. Adaptations to different environments, different abilities and access needs, different available materials, and more. If you're ready to learn how to grow plants from wherever you are, you're in the right place. Let's get growing!
Plan Your Garden
Learn to do a quick-n-dirty garden design to map out your planting plan. From solar direction to plant spacing, we'll practice this simple way to get your garden started, in whatever space you have.
Plant Your Seeds
Start your own seeds! Transplant your own seedlings! Some of the most empowering and magical parts of gardening come from collaborating with these tiny plant-starters.
Tend & Grow
From the science of watering plants, to the use of cover crops, to the proper way to pull a weed, we'll cover these core parts of caring for your garden as it grows.
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About Your Instructor
Rachel Economy is an ecological garden designer and educator, an organizational design-thinking consultant and group facilitator, and a poet and public speaker. She has always been fascinated by our capacity to create whole worlds, big or small, right where we are, and loves sharing many different world-building skills through her facilitation and teaching here on Teachable.
For over a decade, Rachel has studied and taught ecological gardening and farming, systems thinking, resilient design, writing & performance, permaculture, group facilitation, maker & homesteader crafts, and embodied nature connection skills. She holds a master’s degree in Social Innovation and Sustainability from Goddard College. Her first short collection of poetry, the chapbook "The Origins of Streams," was published in 2021 by Finishing Line Press.
Rachel lives with her best friend, Juniper the dog, on a steep California hill, where she's re-learning to garden with disabilities.
