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Frederick News-Post Community Garden Tour [Free; RSVP]

Frederick News-Post Community Garden 351 Ballenger Center Drive, Frederick

We hope you can join us for a fall tour of the Frederick News-Post Community garden, composed of 100 vegetable plots leased by 80 families containing both annual and perennial vegetables, and 35 plots dedicated to producing produce for the Frederick Food Security Network.  We will also get to explore a 3,000 square foot pollinator […]

Free

Putting Your Garden to Bed and Preparing for Spring!; Homesteading is a Spectrum Series

The Common Market 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Unit B1, FREDERICK, MD, United States

Join us as we learn how to wind down our gardens for the winter and learn how to get ahead and increase your spring growing success in the fall months!  In this class we will explore methods like row covers and cover crops, and discuss general/seasonal garden maintenance and how and why you might build […]

$5.00 – $10.00

Grow your own Gourmet Mushrooms! [Offsite]

The Judd Homestead 8955 Indian Springs Rd, Frederick, MD, United States

Grow your own mushrooms! It is easier to grow mushrooms at home than you think. You can grow delicious and nutritious culinary and medicinal mushrooms in your own garden or home (in apartments, on rooftops and patios, too!) In the workshop we will cover how to inoculate stumps, logs, wood chips, and burlap sacks while […]

$65.00

Compost Happens! [Free; Online; RSVP]

Online 5728 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, MD, United States

Did you know that the average American household wastes about a third of the food it purchases every year? Join us as we examine ways to put your trash can on a diet- even during the holiday season!  We’ll learn about the benefits of composting and ways to prevent food waste. Composting is an easy […]

Free