Growing Vegetables in Containers

301 E Center St,Lexington NC 27292

10 June, 2021

Description

Growing Vegetables in Containers: Workshop for Beginning Gardeners In this FREE Workshop participants will learn how to grow vegetables at home in containers. This is a hands-on workshop, and all participants will be provided with containers, soil, and plants to take home and grow! The Davidson County Food System Network is a community network that is working toward building an equitable and resilient food system for the health and economic welfare of our community.  Priorities include data collection about existing assets in Davidson County such as current farmers market traffic and sales, farm tour traffic, number of farms selling direct to consumers, types of farms, number of community gardens, number of commercial kitchens, number of food pantries and their locations, identify restaurants and retailers using and selling local produce, and then analyze the information to set metrics with which to measure growth, deficits, improvement and success in our food system; and local food event promotion (Thomasville and Lexington Farmers Market) and healthy food education awareness.