HOW TO BALCONY GARDEN and Eat Fresh Every Day Webinar


 

​Webinar begins on April 8, 2021 (7 pm EST)


 
 
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Your webinar educator

Lara Lucretia Mrosovsky is a gardener, educator and artist. She has 15 years of experience teaching garden skills and visual art to community groups. Gardening runs in her family from her parents to her Danish, British, Italian and Russian ancestors.

Since 2003 Lara has been dedicated to teaching and learning about growing food in small spaces. She especially values sharing information about growing healthy food with those living in high-rise areas and inner city.

Lara’s first self-published book An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food On Your Balcony sold more than 12,000 copies. In 2019 Lara launched another gardening guide, Grow Without A Garden: 101 Plants for Containers. From 2011-2020 Lara coordinated the first intensive green roof atop a Community Health Centre in Ontario. She designed and established productive gardens on the 6,000 square foot green roof at AccessPoint on Danforth and created the community programs to bring it to life. Lara has worked as a consultant for the City of Toronto’s Environment Office on their “Get Growing” a public education project to promote growing food in small spaces. She is currently on the board of directors of Green Thumbs Growing Kids.

 
 

Here’s what you will learn in the HOW TO BALCONY GARDEN: Eat Fresh Every Day webinar

🌱 A process for container gardening that helps you avoid stressing out about your garden, spending lots of money or getting overwhelmed by information

🌱 Common new gardener mistakes and what-not-to-do​

🌱 How to avoid garden disappointments caused by uninformed choices of plants, container sizes or soil type

🌱 Expand what you thought was possible with balcony gardening through diverse crop lists​

🌱 How to not have to garden alone​

🌱 How to get the most out of a small space​

🌱 And much more…