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Gardening: Making the Most of Your Yard and Garden in Spring

with Sharon Turner

Apr
9

April 9th to June 4th, 2025

$139 More Info

Spring is a great time to plan, prepare, and plant trees, shrubs, and perennials! Whether you're starting from scratch, needing to renovate existing plantings, wanting to plan a new vegetable or flower garden, or create a special habitat for birds and beneficials, this field-based class is for you! The first meeting is the only one held at CHRHS; subsequent classes will meet at each participant's property to explore individualized, site-specific options. Organic practices will be emphasized as will the incorporation of native plants, especially those important for birds, bees, butterflies, and other beneficials. Please give us your physical address when registering. The first night is mandatory, students will receive information and subsequent garden visits will be planned for all participants—this will be the only meeting held in a classroom. Dates and times of subsequent meetings will be determined that evening. A $10 materials fee (handouts) is to be paid to instructor. Approximately 8 weeks total, with some meetings at gardens on weekdays and some on weekends. This class will include a meeting at the instructor's nursery in Washington.

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Farming with Edible Native Plants 04.01.25

with David Spahr

Apr
1

April 1st, 2025

Learn to grow and harvest edible, native plants that provide essential ecological benefits. Instructor David Spahr shares examples from his own years of farming experience and from the educational public, edible landscape he installed across from the town hall in Washington, Maine, in 2014, where wild bees support the pollination and are supported in turn by the many wild local natives including peaches, serviceberries, American plum, beach plum, American chestnut, shagbark hickory, highbush blueberries, raspberries, black raspberries, huckleberries, thimbleberries, strawberries, cranberries,raisin Viburnums, Sedum purpureum, violets, peppermint, garlic, day lily, Rosa rugosa, chives, rhubarb, Jerusalem artichoke and others.
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Composting at Home 101

with Jacinda Martinez

May
21

May 21st, 2025

Join Jacinda Martinez to learn about the basics of healthy soil and how to make your own using kitchen garden waste. Even with limited space you can compost and you will not only be helping your plants, you'll be taking less trash to the dump! Jacinda will walk you through different options and explain which gadgets actually do the trick.

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Basic Home Improvement and Repair for Beginners

with Wayne Sainio

Mar
17

March 17th to April 28th, 2025

You will learn several different home repair basics in this class taught by home maintenance guru Wayne Sainio. Over six weeks, he will cover several topics including plumbing, electrical, and carpentry. The first class will be an introduction and a polling of student interests for the remaining five classes. He will also demonstrate one basic home repair in the first class. Handouts will be provided each week and you will leave this class knowing how to do many different home repairs on your own. Topics Wayne plans to cover are: broken pipes; faucet repair; changing a toilet fill valve and tank ball; replacing lights and outlets; changing light switches; replacing electrical panel fuses and circuit breakers; patching interior walls; replacing doors and windows; using wall anchors; repairing exterior siding; and much more! Class is suitable for those ages 18 and over. Class skips April 20.