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2825 8th Avenue
Fort Worth, Texas 76110 817.922.0930 info@elizabethanna.net |
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SHOP HOURS: Thursday/Friday/Saturday 9-5
CSA PICKUP Fridays 12-5 & Saturdays 9-5 |
WORKSHOPS, CLASSES AND EVENTS FOR FALL 2021
Thursday Quarterly Courses for Homeschool & Adults
Check later in the month for more fall classes for October and November!
2ND SATURDAY: INTRODUCTION TO KOREAN NATURAL FARMING
INTRODUCTION TO KOREAN NATURAL FARMING: PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS
2nd Saturday of the Month ~ September 11, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
2825 8th Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76110
$35 / CSA Members $30
If you have questions please email to: info@elizabethanna.net
Korean Natural Farming (KNF) is a gardening and farming practice created by Cho Han Kya, aka, Master Cho. The method focuses on capturing native microorganisms in the soil, fermenting serums and creating many other amendments that restore health and vitality to the soil.
This class will give you an overview and basic understanding of Korean Natural Farming methods. The workshop is divided into two parts, the first portion will be a lecture and the second half of the class we will have a hands-on demonstration of one of the core inputs (amendments) of KNF.
~Each participant will receive a sample of the input made in class and a handout.
~The fee for this workshop can be applied to the Fall 2021 certification class if that is desired.
>>Class limited to 12 participants and deadline to register is 11:59 PM September 9th, 2021<<
INSTRUCTOR: JAMES SAMUDIO Owner of Elizabeth Anna's Urban Farm and Garden in Fort Worth, Texas. He has a BS and an MBA from Oregon State University and has a certification in Permaculture Design. James has been implementing these designs for urban and broad acre applications for the last 20 years. James and Area were invited to Korea and returned with a desire to share Korean Natural Farming with as many farmers as possible. Aera is a board member of Cho Global Natural Farming and James holds ongoing classes at Elizabeth Anna's. Instruction materials and most inputs are available to purchase at the shop for those who are short on time. These methods, if used properly, provide amazing outcomes, using your own low cost inputs gathered locally.
3RD SATURDAY: GROW THIS! What to start, plant, harvest and do in DFW each month.
About this event
3rd Saturday of the Month September 18th, 10 AM - 11:30 AM
2825 8th Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76110
- Materials cost is included in the $35 class fee, $30 for CSA Members
- What to bring? Gloves, clippers (if you own them) and a water bottle.
- Questions? Please email: info@elizabethanna.net
GROW THIS is a series of monthly practical workshops that use seasonal, hands-on projects related to permaculture practices for abundant food production. We will be utilizing Elizabeth's book as an outline of working with the seasons in North Texas.
"In September we'll roll up our sleeves for some hands-on about what to start, plant, harvest and do in the North Texas Garden. This month we will be focusing on propagating by saving seeds, as well as from root divisions and cloning. Then we will go through some things you can do in September in your gardens to make them abundant all four seasons long. Each month you will have some plant to take home and a handout outlining the rhythm of this transitional (hopefully) warmer season into cooler weather.
At the end of the workshop you will go home with a wealth of knowledge, an assortment of cuttings and seeds to start your own edible plant collection, as well as pots, propagation jar, our homemade willow “rooting water”, and the confidence to implement what you know!
For this class we will be harvesting seeds from plants in the garden and working with edible and medicinal plants that can come indoors for the cooler seasons or are hardy enough to stay outside, such as lemongrass, corkscrew willow, ginger or turmeric, applemint, Okinawan spinach, rosemary and fig.
Who should come?
Current or future gardeners of all ages who wish to learn what to do in September!
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Kirsten is the owner of GTF and a certified permaculture designer certified through the Permaculture Institute of Australia when she hosted Wayne Weiseman to teach Fort Worth's first course and met Elizabeth. Over the past 11 years she has worked as a garden and farm educator in schools, as a farm and greenhouse manager and founded Good Tilth Farm and Nursery in 2015 to feed and teach people. Her roles at Elizabeth Ann's have ranged from greenhouse management, designer and in education and outreach. She is currently studying Korean Natural Farming.
>>Class limited to 15 participants & the deadline to register is 11:59 PM Sept. 16th, 2021<<
4TH SATURDAY (AFTERNOON SESSION) EDIBLE & MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE TEXAS GARDEN
COME AND EXPLORE FIVE EASY TO GROW AND ABUNDANTLY USEFUL PLANTS FOR THE NORTH TEXAS GARDENER!
4th Saturday of the Month ~September 25TH, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2825 8th Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76110
$30 / CSA Members $25
If you have questions please email to: info@elizabethanna.net
Whether these plants are strangers or established friends, we will deepen our intimacy with them through studying their identification, plant families and edible and medicinal uses. The class will culminate with making a simple anti-stress tincture and some taste testing.
A handout will be given.
- Turk’s Cap
- Passionflower
- Jerusalem Artichoke
- Malabar Spinach
- Hoja Santa
The class will culminate with making a simple anti-stress tincture and a yummy taste testing.
There will be a handout.
This class is limited to 15 students and registration for this class closes on September 23rd
INSTRUCTOR: MICHELLE GARDINER
Michelle Gardiner is a certified permaculture designer who is passionate about all things growing and green. She received her B.A from St. Thomas Aquinas College in 1995 and has been homeschooling her four daughters since 2003. She is certified both as a nutritional coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition as well as Texas native plant identification. Her work over the past twenty years has been focused around practical application of permaculture principles, foraging, plant identification, botany, and folk medicine. Michelle is a Canadian transplant that has created gardens all over North America from the Pacific Northwest to the sandy soils of Florida and the rich humus of South Carolina and the past four years, now in the hardpan clay of Texas, where she is turning her city lot into an urban demonstration homestead. Her Texan raised beds, medicinal plants, an orchard, quails and chickens and compost have also served to be a place to abandon perfectionism and embrace experimentation. Michelle has taught in numerous schools over DFW sharing with her students her favorite activity, getting to know the plants that God grows in the wild places – back alleys and parking strips to city parks and forests, where the plants are always in the right soil and the
right place and the growing is free and effortless. Her favorite human adventure has been with
her husband Adam, witnessing their four girls mature into young women.
4TH SATURDAY (MORNING SESSION) FALL TOUR & PLANTER WORKSHOP
AUTUMN GARDEN TOUR AND FALL PLANTER WORKSHOP
September 25th, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
2825 8th Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76110
$45.00 / CSA MEMBERS $40.00
If you have questions please email to: info@elizabethanna.net
Join us for a tour around the shop and learn about our in-ground plants that have held up through the summer and the new ones that will get you through this season. After the tour pick your a pumpkin or pot, plants and fillers and design a cheery outdoor planter that will greet you all season long!
It's easier to say goodbye to our favorite summer blooms when we can create something to usher in the Pumpkin Spice Season!
Spaces are limited! So grab a friend or family member, and let’s make something beautiful together!
Your Fall Planter will include:
- Container
- Our own blend of microbe-rich soil.
- 2-3 filler plants and 1-3 splash plants
- An assortment of fall decor like pebbles, acorns, moss, fall leaves, etc. to make your planter your own!
You may purchase up to four planters for an additional $25 each.
>>Sign ups for this workshop will close at 11:59 PM September 23rd 2021<<
TOUR GUIDES: JAMES SAMUDIO & DEANNA PEHKONEN
PLANTER INSTRUCTOR: DEANNA PEHKONEN
Deanna is a certified permaculture designer and manager of Elizabeth Annas. Deanna wears many hats at EA from office management to design and installations. With over 20+ years in the horticultural industry her specialization is bringing beauty in the landscape with both tried and true cultivars and those that are rare surprises in the garden. (She is EA's primary egg farmer too!)
BURBSTEADING QUARTERY COURSE (FALL 2021) September 9th 2021 - November 19th
BURBSTEADING: LEARN BASIC PRINCIPLES TO DESIGN YOUR OWN SUBURBAN HOMESTEAD
ABOUT THIS COURSE
Thursday September 9th through November 19th 2021
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
2825 8th Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76110
$250.00 or Pay-As-You-Go $25.00 per class
There are over 43 million acres of lawn in North America. That's 42,758,000 more acres than largest owner of American farmland, Bill Gates.
Combined, our own lawns are the fourth largest agricultural land holding in the US after ranching, corn and wheat industries and the Burbsteading Series at Elizabeth Anna's is a workshop designed to take you step-by-step as you create your own design your own homestead in the city. At the end of the workshop you will have a peer and instructor reviewed site design of your property, complete with plant lists, and a plan to implement your design and make it a reality.
In this 20-hour course you will learn the basic permaculture, natural farming, horticultural and market gardening principles that will help you develop a design plan to turn your suburban lot into a beautiful, functioning homestead, tailored to you (or your HOA's) specific needs and wants. IF YOU CANNOT MAKE ALL MONTHLY COURSES THEY CAN BE MADE UP THE NEXT QUARTER
Even if you have a small space, these principles can be scaled to work, whether you live in an apartment, HOA or have a larger suburban lot. Wherever you are, there are possibilities available so you can provide for some of your and your communities needs.
Burbsteading Fall Sessions are divided into three portions:
- Lecture (Brown bag dinner encouraged)
- Hands-on Project
- Q&A, recap and assignment for the next week
*Workbook and Binder for Handouts Included
~This class can be offered for mature 15-17 year-olds after interview and approval.~
BURBSTEADING CURRICULUM
Week 1) Overview on the class and Sense of place/Observation & Asset Inventory
Get to know your bio-region, and your neighbors. Discover your sense of place within your community.
Week 2) Permaculture 101
Learn the basic design principles and apply them to your situation whether you are in a condo or on acreage.
Week 3) Soils
Remediation techniques and inexpensive ways to build soil and keep soils clean. Waste management and simplifying steps. How to use EM-1 KNF to build life of the soil.
Co-taught with James Samudio
Week 4) Water
How to catch and store and purify water in your landscape, with ponds, rain gardens or cheap containers, cisterns or a water matrix.
Hands-On: Bokashi Balls and Moringa Filters
Week 5) Growing for Production in Small Spaces, Found or Borrowed.
Utilizing the cultivars work best in Texas, begin to plan for succession planting and four season harvests. Overview of a tiered system for apartments and condominiums and partnering with neighbors for their lawn usage for micro-pockets of food safety nets.
Week 6) Perennial Food Forests & Foraged & Adaptive Plants
Learn about wild food and medicinal plants and how to design a food forest that has a combination of calorie crops, nutrient dense foods, fruits, herbs, perennial vegetables, etc.. Hand-outs: Fruit Every Month in DFW
Co-taught with Michelle Gardiner
Week 7) Herbal Gardens
What to stock, how to use what you stock and how to treat illnesses and injuries with simple grocery store items, foraged plants, and herbs.
Make-N-Take: Comfrey Salve
Week 8) Urban Animal Husbandry
Goats, insects, poultry, aquaponics … How to decide which animals you should raise and how to grow part or all of their feed. Handout of shelters, feed, recipes and fodder plant lists.
Week 9) Appropriate Technology
Learn about low-tech and no-tech ways to meet some of our needs. Hands-On: Make a simple solar and rocket oven.
Week 10) Seed Saving, Preserving Harvests
Learn when to save seeds and how to store them for the next season.
Learn how to preserve harvests inground as living cellars. Overview of canning, dehydrating and fermenting.
Week 11) Propagation of the Bland and Unusual
How to make “free” plants by seed, division, cuttings, air rooting and layering. (Optional Grocery Store Gardening Field Trip to Central Market)
Week 12) Putting it all together
Using online maps, draft a design of your property/location and learn how to keep good records to create a seasonal rhythm of your work on your Burbstead.
*There will two additional online sessions (TBD) which will be given as a webinar where you can upload your design plan for discussion and feedback from fellow students and instructor critiques. We will not meet on the the last Thursday of the month of November because of the Thanksgiving holiday. This workshop is repeated quarterly and any classes that are missed can be made up during the next session.
>>>Class is limited to 10 students<<<
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Kirsten is the owner of GTF and a certified permaculture designer certified through the Permaculture Institute of Australia when she hosted Wayne Weiseman to teach Fort Worth's first course and met Elizabeth. Over the past 11 years she has worked as a garden and farm educator in schools, as a farm and greenhouse manager and founded Good Tilth Farm and Nursery in 2015 to feed and teach people. Her roles at Elizabeth Ann's have ranged from greenhouse management, designer and in education and outreach. She is currently studying Korean Natural Farming.
GARDENING AND NATURAL HISTORY: HOMESCHOOL COURSE (10-14 year-olds)
GARDENING AND NATURAL HISTORY
Thursdays Beginning September 16 - November 19, 2021
2825 8th Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76110
$180 OR Pay-As-You-Go for $20 per class
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
If you have questions please email to: info@elizabethanna.net
ABOUT THIS COURSE
Gardening and Natural History is a project-based course inspired by the watchful observation of Charlotte Mason's nature studies and the hands-on practical life work of Montessori's Erdkinder.
Most classes (weather permitting) are held outside. All the classes are hands-on and they will have something that they bring home with them - a plant, seeds, a pressed flower, food from the garden, etc.. Each class is divided into thirds:
- Short presentation of what that day will hold.
- Animal care and plant care and weekly inspection of plots and observation/nature study areas and work in their nature and specimen journals is done.
- Main focus of the week - planting, projects, fauna, etc., is done with a recap and optional picnic lunch (brown bag) in the gardens or shop.
(There will be another adult in the shop but it is also recommended that one parent each week stays to participate with your child(ren).)
Planting Days: Students will learn the recommended planting for each month, as well as, what is harvested and what needs attention. They will be given a monthly planting calendars and worksheets to design and maintain their own home garden plots and harvests. They can record their findings and at the end of each season, each student will have a record of their own plot, what worked, and what didn’t so they can plan for next year.
Fauna Days: We will study the animals on the urban farm and the creatures that inhabit the gardens. In the fall/winter semesters study will revolve around the microscopic composters and the biological, chemical and fungal makeup of the soil. Later on the focus will be on the beneficial insects and pollinators, and finally birds, reptiles and the role they play in the garden.
Returning students in the winter quarter will focus on urban animal husbandry and begin to design a new duck area with a pond.
Field Work Journals /Tend Grounds: The Fieldwork/Botany Journals are the students ongoing record of the animal and plant identification and observation. We will use the Botanical Research Institute’s ID papers and observe a specific area that the student has chosen to observe and record throughout the fall months. The students will tend and sketch their specific area and journal.
MATERIALS: Gloves, gardening aprons (or a large, old shirt) are recommended. A cleaning station will provided as well as an outside bathroom. The syllabus, first assignment and a liability waiver will be emailed after registration. Please bring the waiver back before or one the first day of class. :)
Recommend to bring:
- gardening gloves
- garden apron (or a large man’s t-shirt or button down)
- 2” binder
>> Class is limited to 10 students <<
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Kirsten is the owner of GTF and a certified permaculture designer certified through the Permaculture Institute of Australia when she hosted Wayne Weiseman to teach Fort Worth's first course and met Elizabeth. Over the past 11 years she has worked as a garden and farm educator in schools, as a farm and greenhouse manager and founded Good Tilth Farm and Nursery in 2015 to feed and teach people. Her roles at Elizabeth Ann's have ranged from greenhouse management, designer and in education and outreach. She is currently studying Korean Natural Farming.
Elizabeth's book is now available as a PDF!VIEWABLE ON ALL DEVICES!
Optimized for digital reading with an interactive Table of Contents. Even though I refer to my printed book often, I love to glance through it on my phone on-the-go as well! Perfect for a shopping trip at the plant nursery when you can't remember which seeds and starts you need to pick up. Elizabeth's Book is used in the GROW THIS! class series. |
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and WHAT IS ELIZABETH ANNA'S?
~ Joy, plants, people, community, mud, chickens, goats, beauty, a collage of healthy goodness is what Elizabeth and James Samudio built at Elizabeth Anna's. Even though our beloved foundress, Elizabeth Anna is no longer with us, all the seeds she planted in people and creation are taking bloom. We are still:
We take the three tenants of permaculture to heart; care of earth, care of people and sharing are all part of what we do on and off site in our community and with our world. Our mission in a nutshell is to grow food, community, and beauty in harmony with nature and teach people to provide for some of their own needs. We place high value on the way we treat the earth God asked us to love, the people God shares as gifts, and the responsibility of the knowledge we gain by studying His creation through nature. Outside of our city farm the core of our landscape work is to create beauty and functionality using permaculture practices, and create sustainable sites and living spaces. We take a stand for family farms, humanly raised, and harvested animals, and advocate for the absence of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and and support small local business gets our cash and support! Please stop by and consider buying the best organic edibles in town so you can grow vegetables in your landscape or take a look at our collection of flowers, vines, trees and herbs. If you need some help deciding where you should plant or want us to do it for you, we offer certified permaculture landscape design, consultations, and licensed irrigation. |
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Come Visit Us (Across from the Fiesta)
Elizabeth Anna Urban Farm & Market 2825 8th Avenue Fort Worth, Texas 76110 817.922.0930 |
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Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CSA Pickup: Fridays 12 PM - 5 PM Saturdays 9 AM until 5 PM |
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Chicken and Duck Eggs, Pastured Beef and Chicken, Edible and Medicinal Plants, H&H Chicken Feed, Compost Tea, and much more.
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