Campus - Northampton Community College

GARDEN
NEW! garden Trip: Shenk’s ferry Wild flower Preserve
Travel with a small group to explore one of the most beautiful collections
of more than 70 native woodland wildflowers on the east coast including
Virginia bluebells, trillium, Jacob’s ladder and more. Enjoy the mile stroll
through the 50-acre preserve along Grubb Run in Lancaster County.
Please dress to be outside and wear weather-worthy shoes. Be sure to
sign up early as seating is limited. Further class details to be emailed prior
to start date.
SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR
(1) Fri, Apr 19, 9 AM - 3 PM MAIN/NCPL Salantri
Course Code: gaRDn116 fee: $59.00
Bring snack, drink and bagged lunch. RAIN DATE: April 26th.
COmmUnITY gaRDen | WELCOME TO THE NCC EAST 40 COMMUNITY GARDEN!
message from: Kelly allen, Coordinator
The NCC East 40 Community Garden is a place for aspiring and seasoned gardeners to further their
knowledge with a mixture of in-class and outdoor learning experiences. This new education
environment is located at the Bethlehem Campus situated in the field east of the parking lots just off of
Green Pond Road. The current 10,000 square-foot garden was designed and constructed by NCC
students, faculty, and staff during the 2010 academic year. Part of the mission for the East 40 Community
Garden is to continue the school’s commitment to the community by offering practical, hands on classes.
NEW! garden Trip: explore the gardens of Chanticleer
Travel with a small group to explore one of the Main Line’s most beautiful
gardens, Chanticleer. The terraced landscape was designed by Landscape
Architect, Thomas Sears, and today the garden also features a stream,
woodland, and vegetable garden. Please dress to be outside and wear
weather-worthy shoes. Be sure to sign up early as seating is limited. Price
includes admission. Further class details to be emailed prior to start date.
SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR
(1) Fri, May 17, 9 AM - 3 PM MAIN/NCPL Salantri
Course Code: gaRDn117 fee: $79.00
Bring snack, drink and bagged lunch. RAIN DATE: May 24th.
Instructor Highlight
Lorna Midgelow-Yearwood has the zeal and passion of a “born-again” organic vegetable gardener. For many years she was unable to grow
vegetables through lack of sun. Now, happily in full sunshine, she is entering her fifth year of serious backyard farming! She is mainly a self-taught
gardener, through the obsessive reading of many books and plenty of hands-on successes and failures in the garden. Over the past couple of years
she has attended a multitude of commercial organic vegetable and fruit classes, plus she volunteers at a local Community Sustained Agriculture
(CSA) farm. In an attempt to be more self-reliant and reduce her environmental footprint on the earth, she grows a wide variety of crops in her
backyard in Springtown, PA. By teaching this series of classes she hopes to help and inspire others to do the same. Check out her blog at
http://winifredslittleacre.wordpress.com.
Interested in obtaining your own community garden plot?
If you would like your own community garden plot at the NCC East 40 Community Garden or if you simply would like more information detailing
what we’re about, send an email to east40garden@gmail.com.
Community Garden Class Notes: Classes are a combination of classroom lecture and out in the garden hands-on experience. Please dress appropriately for the
weather and for playing in the dirt! Classes are held rain or shine.
Orientation for east 40 Community gardeners
This is an annual course for all individuals who will be gardening a plot at
NCC’s East 40 Community Garden. Topics to be discussed are: the garden’s
position on organics, understanding what it means to be a community
gardener, and a general introduction to the garden and its resources. The
tuition for the course will cover plot fees for the year.
SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR
(1) Sat, Jan 12, 9 AM - Noon MAIN/KOPE Allen
Course Code: COmmg100 fee: $25.00
* Planning the Perfect Organic Vegetable garden — Part I
Planning makes perfect! Get a jump on the growing season by learning
about the factors on how to PLAN the perfect vegetable garden. Proper
advanced planning will greatly increase your gardens productivity. Topics
covered will include: Setting realistic goals for your garden; choosing
which veggies to grow; how much to grow; crop groups & rotation; how to
spread out the harvest with succession planting; seed selection and more.
SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR
(1) Sat, Feb 9, 10 AM - Noon MAIN/KOPE Yearwood
Course Code: COmmg101 fee: $20.00
* Planning the Perfect Organic Vegetable garden — Part II
Building on some or all of the planning factors learned in Part 1, this class
is where you get to lay out your own garden and get ready to order seeds!
This class is not for the fainthearted and includes some basic math to work
out desired veggie yields; garden space requirements; and timing for sowing
seeds, transplanting and harvesting. We will work interactively to plan
YOUR garden. You will leave the class with a plan for your own vegetable
garden! Class Size is limited — register early!
SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR
(1) Sat, Feb 16, 10 AM - Noon MAIN/KOPE Yearwood
Course Code: COmmg102 fee: $20.00
Pre-requisite: Completion of Planning the Perfect Organic Vegetable Garden Part I
either this year or last year.
Call 1-877-543-0998 while at your computer
for help in creating your account
* Part of an eight class series — see page 28 for how to sign up for all
Register online: northampton.edu/lifelearn The refund policy has changed: see page 3.
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