Workshop on "Urban Gardening from the scratch" (Saturday, 08 June, 2019, near Kamaraj Nagar, Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai)

Thinking of starting a kitchen garden on your terrace/balcony/backyard?

Don't know how to start and keep it flowing?

Confused with watching YouTube videos on Gardening?

Have water Issues? want to know how to cope up with that issue?

Don't know what to plant according to Chennai climate?

Want to know the care to be taken in different seasons?

Have challenges with pests and rodents? 

Willing to know the natural way of making growth boosters and pest repellents?

Worrying about the upfront costs involved in gardening and want to know the simple and economical way of gardening?

want to explore the different and multiple uses of plants in our everyday life?

will you be able to spend 01-02 hours on gardening everyday?

Then here you are!

Here is an kick-starter opportunity to learn some practical knowledge required to start a garden from the scratch.

Some More info about the workshop: 

1. To make you realize what is needed to start a garden you envisioned, considering your daily routine pattern.

2. To support you and to hold you in the process of dealing with your mistakes.






Please call to register and to confirm your participation.

Details Of The Event:   URBAN GARDENING FROM THE SCRATCH
                                    Saturday, 08 June 2019
      
                        Time:   09:00AM until 01:00PM
                   
                      Venue:    L123, 10th West street,
                                    Kamaraj Nagar, 
                                    Tiruvanmiyur,
                                    Chennai.
                                    Landmark: Aavin Junction, 
                                    (opp. to post office).

                       GPS:      Preethi's Residence (Google Map)
  
For venue related queries, contact preethi: +91-9500080920


Contributions: This workshop is being offered in the spirit of Gift-Ecology. It means, "Contributing from the heart". We do not have a fixed charge for the workshop. However, we expect your contributions. They will actually help us to cover upfront costs, sustain ourselves and help us in continuing our work. Having said this, 

If you are unable to contribute for reasons best known to you, It's okay. There will be no restrictions. We will figure out a way for you...

Contributions can also be like monetary funds, offering space/venue, offering skill/product/services that will help me to continue my work.

Bring along:  Please try to bring the following while attending for the workshop:

1. Notes and pen
2. Shredded vegetable, fruit peels, few fruit pieces of any two different fruits,        lemon peels, dried leaves, flowers and egg shells( one small bag)
3. Jaggery powder (as much as you can)
4. Plastic bottles, glass jars
5. seeds and saplings (if you can)
6. coconut outer fiber and
7. snacks to share during the break (only if you are okay from the heart)

(you can learn things in practice, So, please try to bring the above).

Please write a note to me through WhatsApp or SMS on challenges you have with gardening and your expectations from the workshop. This will help me to design the workshop according to your needs to make it more participant centric.

If in case, you have confirmed your participation and not able to attend for some reason, please inform at least one day in advance. It will help people who are in waiting list to attend the workshop.

Please make sure, you reach the venue as early as possible, before 08:30AM

I request you to refrain from having cross conversations during the workshop, it disturbs everyone.

Workshop Agenda will be sent to your registered mobile number through WhatsApp or SMS by Friday night, Once we are done with finalizing participants.

By confirming your participation, we understand that you have read and understood what is written here and agree with the same.
                            
Important to note: We cannot fill a cup which is already full. So, please be open to how the process flows.

Best wishes...
Guru Sunny Boppana
(Gardening Coach)

Workshop on "Urban Gardening from the scratch" (Saturday, 01 June, 2019, near Kamaraj Nagar, Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai)

Thinking of starting a kitchen garden on your terrace/balcony/backyard?

Don't know how to start and keep it flowing?

Confused with watching YouTube videos on Gardening?

Have water Issues? want to know how to cope up with that issue?

Don't know what to plant according to Chennai climate?

Want to know the care to be taken in different seasons?

Have challenges with pests and rodents? 

Willing to know the natural way of making growth boosters and pest repellents?

Worrying about the upfront costs involved in gardening and want to know the simple and economical way of gardening?

want to explore the different and multiple uses of plants in our everyday life?

will you be able to spend 01-02 hours on gardening everyday?

Then here you are!

Here is an kick-starter opportunity to learn some practical knowledge required to start a garden from the scratch.

Some More info about the workshop: 

1. To make you realize what is needed to start a garden you envisioned, considering your daily routine pattern.

2. To support you and to hold you in the process of dealing with your mistakes.



Please call to register and to confirm your participation.

Details Of The Event:   URBAN GARDENING FROM THE SCRATCH
                                    Saturday, 01 June 2019
      
                        Time:   09:00AM until 01:00PM
                   
                      Venue:    L123, 10th West street,
                                    Kamaraj Nagar, 
                                    Tiruvanmiyur,
                                    Chennai.
                                    Landmark: Aavin Junction, 
                                    (opp. to post office).
  
For venue related queries, contact preethi: +91-9500080920


Contributions: This workshop is being offered in the spirit of Gift-Ecology. It means, "Contributing from the heart". We do not have a fixed charge for the workshop. However, we expect your contributions. They will actually help us to cover upfront costs, sustain ourselves and help us in continuing our work. Having said this, 

If you are unable to contribute for reasons best known to you, It's okay. There will be no restrictions.

Contributions can also be like monetary funds, offering space/venue, offering skill/product/services that will help me to continue my work.

Bring along:  Please try to bring the following while attending for the workshop:

1. Notes and pen
2. Shredded vegetable, fruit peels, few fruit pieces of any two different fruits,        lemon peels, dried leaves, flowers and egg shells( one small bag)
3. Jaggery powder (as much as you can)
4. Plastic bottles, glass jars
5. seeds and saplings (if you can)
6. coconut outer fiber and
7. snacks to share during the break (only if you are okay from the heart)

Please write a note to me through WhatsApp or SMS on challenges you have with gardening and your expectations from the workshop. This will help me to design the workshop according to your needs to make it more participant centric.

If in case, you have confirmed your participation and not able to attend for some reason, please inform at least one day in advance. It will help people who are in waiting list to attend the workshop.

Please make sure, you reach the venue as early as possible, before 08:30AM

I request you to refrain from having cross conversations during the workshop, it disturbs everyone.

Workshop Agenda will be sent to your registered mobile number through WhatsApp or SMS by Friday night, Once we are done with finalizing participants.

By confirming your participation, we understand that you have read and understood what is written here and agree with the same.
                            
Important to note: We cannot fill a cup which is already full. So, please be open to how the process flows.

Best wishes...
Guru Sunny Boppana
(Gardening Coach)

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Composting kitchen scraps (uncooked)

Home Composting (Aerobic)

Materials required:  

·      A perforated container.

·    Brown matter(carbon): Dried leaves, unbleached, uncoloured, unlaminated cardboard pieces, saw dust, cocopeat, dry soil, sand, peanut shells, rice husk etc.

·  Green matter(nitrogen): Fresh veggie peels and fruit peels (except strong acidic peels like citrus, lemon, chillies, onions, garlic and ginger)

·      Whatever the peel other than the above, chop it finely and thoroughly before adding it to the compost. Eggshells are to be crushed before adding them to the compost. Coffee grounds, tea powder works well with composting. You may also add hair and nails.

·      Never add meat, bones, dairy products and heavily coated paper. You may add white papers but not printed papers as it may contain lead.

·       If you are not able to get brown matter, you may get some soft coconut fiber, tear them to tiny chunks and put them in a mixer grinder to make it a fine powder. This can be added to the compost.

·       Maintain moisture of the compost and do check it regularly...every day.

·     Optional Materials Required:

o    Ash (Adding ash to compost enrich the quality of the compost, maintains alkalinity. Bakeries are good sources of ash.

o    Charcoal: Acts like sponge absorbing extra moisture also has the ability to store nutrients and release them slowly when added to the soil. Iron wallas are good source of charcoals.

o    Sour buttermilk: Improves and increases the microbial activity. You may sprinkle butter milk to increase the rate of composting. 

·         Procedure:

o    Put a layer of carbon/brown matter (oddly shaped twigs,coconut fibre,etc. To form the bottom most layer of the container).

o    To the wet kitchen waste (that is drained of all excess water), add half its volume of ‘browns’. Mix well and make sure that the resulting mater is moist and not soggy.

o    Add this to the container and cover with thin layer of browns and leave it alone. This layer prevents files from sitting on the pile.

o    Repeat the step 2 and 3 every day.

o    Stir the pile as often as you can to allow a lot of air.

o    When the first container gets full, prepare another container and follow the same procedure.

o    Keep stirring the compost pile in the first container throughout the process. The pile will become hot in its initial phase.

o    By the time the second container becomes full, it is possible that the first pile cools down and the contents look dark and half composted. Partly composted matter is not messy to handle and can be transferred into a plastic or a jute sack for further composting making the container available for a fresh batch. Or, if you have more containers to spare, keep using newer ones to start the process and retain the compost in the bin until all of it is completely done. 

o    Sieve the contents and add the big pieces that need to break down further to a next batch of waste for composting.

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·         Enriching the compost: The homemade compost can be enriched through charcoal, ash and red-wrigglers and other earthworms. 

Workshop on "Urban Gardening from the scratch" (Saturday, 25 May, 2019, near Kamaraj Nagar, Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai)

Thinking of starting a kitchen garden on your terrace/balcony/backyard?

Don't know how to start and keep it flowing?

Confused with watching YouTube videos on Gardening?

Have water Issues? want to know how to cope up with that issue?

Don't know what to plant according to Chennai climate?

Want to know the care to be taken in different seasons?

Have challenges with pests and rodents?

Worrying about the upfront costs involved in gardening and want to know the simple and economical way of gardening?

want to explore the different and multiple uses of plants in our everyday life?

will you be able to spend 01-02 hours on gardening everyday?

Then here you are!

Here is an kick-starter opportunity to learn some practical knowledge required to start a garden from the scratch.

Some More info about the workshop: 

1. To make you realize what is needed to start a garden you envisioned, considering your daily routine pattern.

2. To support you and to hold you in the process of dealing with your mistakes. 




Please call to register and to confirm your participation.

Details Of The Event:   URBAN GARDENING FROM THE SCRATCH
                                    Saturday, 25 May 2019
      
                        Time:   09:00AM until 01:00PM
                   
                      Venue:    L123, 10th West street,
                                    Kamaraj Nagar, 
                                    Tiruvanmiyur,
                                    Chennai.
                                    Landmark: Aavin Junction, 
                                    (opp. to post office).
  
For venue related queries, contact preethi: +91-9500080920


Contributions: This workshop is being offered in the spirit of Gift-Ecology. It means, "Contributing from the heart". We do not have a fixed charge for the workshop. However, we expect your contributions. They will actually help us to cover upfront costs, sustain ourselves and help us in continuing our work. Having said this, 

If you are unable to contribute for reasons best known to you, It's okay. There will be no restrictions.

Contributions can also be like monetary funds, offering space/venue, offering skill/product/services that will help me to continue my work.

Bring along:  Please try to bring the following while attending for the workshop:

1. Notes and pen
2. Shredded vegetable, fruit peels, few fruit pieces of any two different fruits, lemon peels, dried leaves, flowers and egg shells( one small bag)
3. Jaggery powder (as much as you can)
4. Plastic bottles, glass jars
5. seeds and saplings (if you can)
6. coconut outer fiber and
7. snacks to share during the break (only if you are okay from the heart)

Please write a note to me through WhatsApp or SMS on challenges you have with gardening and your expectations from the workshop. This will help me to design the workshop according to your needs to make it more participant centric.

If in case, you have confirmed your participation and not able to attend for some reason, please inform at least one day in advance. It will help people who are in waiting list to attend the workshop.

Please make sure, you reach the venue as early as possible, before 08:30AM

I request you to refrain from having cross conversations during the workshop, it disturbs everyone.

Workshop Agenda will be sent to your registered mobile number through WhatsApp or SMS by Friday night, Once we are done with finalizing participants.

By confirming your participation, we understand that you have read and understood what is written here and agree with the same.
                            
Important to note: We cannot fill a cup which is already full. So, please be open to how the process flows.

Best wishes...
Guru Sunny Boppana
(Gardening Coach)

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