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Prepare a No-Till Garden Bed in Less than an Hour with Patrice Gros
April 8, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
During this hands-on workshop, we will build an organic garden bed using a no-till method. By not tilling the bed, we will not just save time, but we will also keep the soil structure in its natural state. We will then plant vegetable crops together on these permanent beds.
REGISTER: Online here
WHEN: Saturday, April 8th from 3:00-5:00pm
WHERE: Tri Cycle Farms (1705 N Garland Ave)
PARK in the gravel lot at Trinity United First Methodist Church across the street.
Donation: $10 suggested
About the teacher:
Patrice Gros of Foundation Farm was raised in Marseille, France and lived there until he graduated from college with a degree in business. He went on to obtain his MBA from UCLA and pursued a career in corporate finance and personal money management. In 1993, with a new home in Ojai, CA and an acre of land peppered with fruit trees, Patrice had his first vegetable garden. There it was: heart-shaped and barely 100 square-feet, and with it, a deep life transformation of the most gentle and unexpected kind.
Today, many seasons and thousands of hours of raking, hoeing, mulching and harvesting later, Patrice’s gardening passion is alive and well; only the scale has changed. Patrice now runs Foundation Farm, a 5 acre certified organic farm in the Arkansas Ozarks not far from Eureka Springs. The farm is a no-till, highly sustainable, organically certified operation which supports his family. All of the farm’s 25,000 lbs of produce harvested yearly are sold within a 50 mile radius. The farm attracts many visitors and groups. The farm crew is a mixture of volunteers and season-long trainees enrolled in Foundation Farm’s farming school.
Patrice is also the founder of the Eureka Springs Farmers’ Market.