March 2018
Oakes Demonstration Farm Tour
No RSVP required. Tour Oakes Demonstration Farm where we grow a variety of conventional herbs and vegetables, annual flowers, raise chickens, keep bees, and farm shrimp and tilapia to provide community education and stock our markets and some local restaurants. You will even finally meet Oakes Farm's own Kirk Hendersen, our garden center and nursery manager! Park at the farm and overflow parking on Deer Run Lane, wear full footed shoes, be well hydrated, and wear sun protection. We will…
Find out more »“Facts and Fiction on Medical Marijuana” with Dr. Potter
Evidence-based studies prove medical marijuana is beneficial to thousands of patients. It can help people suffering from back injuries, chronic pain, cancer, MS, and a host of other debilitating conditions. Patients should have access to something that will help them. Dr. Potter will be conducting a 45 minute lecture on the benefits of Medical Marijuana.
Find out more »April 2018
The Food Summit
E.A.T. An Unconventional Decade In The Life Of A Cancer Patient was written in journal format, and is based on the 18 journals Kathy kept during her battle with two rare and aggressive cancers. She refused to accept the prognosis of death and found herself tallying the limitations of conventional medical protocol, which led to Kathy’s conviction that neither cancer nor doctors would determine her fate. Despite taking advantage of everything her hospital had offered, Kathy’s body was failing, leaving…
Find out more »June 2018
Choosing Healthy Plants
Have you purchased plants, taken them home, and then they start looking unhealthy a few days later? When you are shopping for fruit trees, do you know what to look for and how to choose varieties that thrive in our climate? So many of my customers tell me they have a "black thumb" and can't grow anything because everything they try growing dies! Not true! Come learn about how to choose healthy plants and give them the start they need…
Find out more »July 2018
Gardening Talk
Join our monthly open topic gardening discussion. What's growing now? What to plant? What other gardening activities coming up? In this class, attendees can bring their questions, plant problems, and ideas; we’ll share organic methods and solutions to problems. If you bring plant parts with a problem, please keep the plant parts in plastic bag so we don’t spread the problem to our garden center plants.
Find out more »Summer Gardening Activities for SWFL
What activities are best for this time of year in our climate? It’s a great time for pruning, propagating, planting, and soil building. Is now a good time to put out fertilizer and what types of fertilizer are best? What about container gardens? Come learn about gardening activities for the heat of our summer months.
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