Calendar of learning opportunities

Later this summer: Learn how to start a community garden (fall and winter are the best times to start planning!). If you can't wait for the class, then download Neighborhood Harvest: Building Community Gardens in Indianapolis, produced by the Capital City Garden Project and the Junior League. This guide is a few years old, but the basic information remains relevant.

Gardening (How to)

• Master Gardener (Marion County)
• Junior Master Gardener (National Web site)
  (Marion County)
• Merry Lea Center at Goshen College (Agroecology)
  Earn academic credit or a certificate.
  Deadline to apply for 4 1/2 or 9 week summer intensive: April 30.
  Certificate option available
• Angelic Organics Learning Center (Chicago)
  (ongoing classes)
• Growing Power (Milwaukee, Wis.)
• Growing Places Indy
  Hands-on learning at the urban farm at White River State Park
• 15 Thousand Farmers: Louisville, Ky., initiative with instructions on how to grow a lot of food in a 4'x4' space based on Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew.

Permaculture

• Permaculture Design Course (Bloomington, Ind.)
  Much more than gardening, it's about designing for life.
• Midwest Permaculture (Chicago, Ill.)

Beekeeping

• Indiana Bee School of the Indiana Beekeepers' Association
  
• Indiana Beekeeping School of the Indiana State Beekeepers Association