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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 OCTOBER 2021
Check later in the month for more fall classes for November!
KOREAN NATURAL FARMING LEVELS I & II COMPETENCY COURSE
Korean Natural Farming
Levels I & II Competency Course
October 28 - 30th 2021 PM Thursday 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Saturday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Lunch Provided
Elizabeth Annas Urban Farm & Garden 2825 Eighth Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76110
• $395 Course Fee
WHAT IS KOREAN NATURAL FARMING? Korean Natural Farming (KNF) takes advantage of indigenous microorganisms (IMO) (bacteria, fungi, nematodes and protozoa) to produce fertile soils that
yield high output without the use of herbicides or pesticides.[1] A result is improvement in soil health, improving loaminess, tilth and structure, and attracting large numbers of earthworms. KNF also enables odor-free hog and poultry farming without the need to dispose of effluent. This practice has spread to over 30 countries, and is used by individuals and commercial farms.[2] (Taken from Wikipedia)
James is the owner of Elizabeth Anna's Urban Farm and Garden in Fort Worth, Texas where he designs permaculture gardens, runs an urban CSA for his community and runs the nursery/lab where he utilizes permaculture and KNF principles. James has a BS and an MBA from Oregon State University and has a certification in Permaculture Design from the Australian Institute. James has been implementing permaculture design for urban and broad acre applications. Currently, he is incorporating into his expertise the methods of Korean Natural Farming. He has recently returned from a trip to Korea and desires to share Korean Natural Farming with as many farmers as possible. These methods, if used properly, provide amazing outcomes, using your own low-cost inputs gathered locally.
3RD SATURDAY: GROW IT! Serious Backyard Food Production in North Texas
GROW THIS! OCTOBER
About this event
- 3rd Saturday of the Month OCTOBER 16th 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
- 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
REGISTER BELOW!
GROW IT! is a monthly, hands-on course that gives you the knowledge, tips and tricks for serious backyard food using market gardening, permaculture and natural farming methods each month. Topics covered are
~vegetable garden design and placement
~soil and plant relationships
~strategies to build a healthy soil food web in an urban environment
~raising seedlings
~preparing garden beds
~nutrient cycling
~crop rotations
~pest management
~natural farming with compost, teas, and worms
~ how to develop a gardening rhythm and schedule.
We will be utilizing Elizabeth's book as an outline of working with the seasons in North Texas and at the end of the each workshop you will go home with a new plant, handout and a wealth of knowledge and the confidence to implement what you know.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Kirsten is the owner of GTF and a certified permaculture designer. 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.
4TH SATURDAY: Making Friends with Texas Trees
FIVE EDIBLE OR MEDICINAL NORTH TEXAS TREES & SHRUBS
4th Saturday of the Month ~October 23rd, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2825 8th Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76110
$35 / CSA Members $30
If you have questions please email to: info@elizabethanna.net
A Making Friends with Trees is a workshop exploring the identification and edible and medicinal uses of our common trees and shrubs.
- Pecan
- Black Walnut
- Osage Orange
- Yaupon Holly
- Sumac
This will be a hands-on class with handouts.
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.
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
Pay-As-You-Go $25.00 per class
REGISTER BELOW
October 14th Water Strategies in North Texas
Many innovative water conservation methods have been practiced for centuries. Learn 12 ways to "plant", capture, and direct water in your gardens and landscapes.
October 21st Growing for Production in Small Spaces
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.
October 28th Know Your Soil
What makes a healthy soil for growing food? We will learn about some natural farming methods, 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
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.
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 |
Store Hours:
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CSA Pickup: Fridays 12 PM - 5 PM Saturdays 9 AM until 5 PM |
OUR CSA
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What's Growing
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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.
Garden design and water saving irrigation.
CSA
Weekly local food baskets.
Nursery
Vegetables, perennials, fruit trees, and more...
Urban Farm
Goats, chickens and ducks.
Education and Outreach
Home & Garden, Permaculture and other Classes.