Date: 
29 September 2012 - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Venue: 
Northside College Preparatory High School 5501 N. Kedzie Ave. Chicago, IL 60625

Become a professional or backyard farmer by joining Urban Habitat Chicago for our hands-on organic farming workshop. Experienced ecological designer and urban farmer Michael Repkin will guide you through the most critical topics in organic agriculture and give you the tools to effectively manage your own garden, or optimize your urban farm. For beginning and experienced farmers.*

This workshop provides participants with the knowledge, skill and ability to grow basic food, fuel and fiber crops. Topics include safety, construction, fertilization, seeding and transplanting, growth and maintenance, and harvesting. This course is the prerequisite for our advanced and seasonal agricultural courses.

Instructor Mike Repkin has 25 years of growing experience, from the Midwest to the Bahamas. He has a background in microbiology from Walter Reed Military Medical Center, and has lectured extensively on environmental topics and human life support - the art and science of restoring a habitable planet.

Series Cost: $94.00 for non-members ; $78.00 for UHC members

http://urbanagriculture.eventbrite.com/

www.urbanhabitatchicago.org

Contact Name: 
Lee Bouchard
Contact Email: 
contact@urbanhabitatchicago.org

Upcoming events

6 Apr 13 - 7 Apr 13

A warm friendly place with teachers with a burning passion to share their knowledge and the dedication to ensure you develop to the best of your ability. The crowd are some of the warmest friendly groups of people with no cliques so you can mingle freely with your new friends over drinks with Italian food served at the restaurant and DJ's playing Kizomba and Zouk through the night until 2am and taking requests if you ask nicely. What more can you ask for?

Classes start from 8pm EVERY Saturday

PRICE

10 Apr 13

*Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase*
*RSVP essential. See below.*

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the writer and mystic Arthur Machen Housmans are proud to welcome the Iain Sinclair to discuss this enigmatic figure.

Iain will be considering Machen in the context of London, Poe's stalking of the ‘Man in the Crowd’, the Northwest Passage, De Quincey and the Labyrinth.

We expect a very big turn out for this event so it essential that you contact us ahead of time to reserve a space. Please RSVP by email to nik@housmans.com

13 Apr 13 - 14 Apr 13

A warm friendly place with teachers with a burning passion to share their knowledge and the dedication to ensure you develop to the best of your ability. The crowd are some of the warmest friendly groups of people with no cliques so you can mingle freely with your new friends over drinks with Italian food served at the restaurant and DJ's playing Kizomba and Zouk through the night until 2am and taking requests if you ask nicely. What more can you ask for?

Classes start from 8pm EVERY Saturday

PRICE

15 Apr 13

Since 2001, the civil liberties of British citizens have been progressively eroded. Among other examples, the Extradition Act (2003) allows individuals to be extradited to another country for actions that are not criminal in the UK, and without prima facie evidence of a case against them being presented in a British court. This Act can result in long periods of detention without charge (British citizens have been detained for up to eight years).

17 Apr 13

*Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase*

An event to celebrate the publication of ‘London Fictions’ from Five Leaves Publishing. ‘London Fictions’ is a new collection of essays about the representation of London in fiction, with each contributor concentrating on a particular work.