Families from throughout Orange County can expect their kids to come home with dirty hands after a day at one of the Orange County Great Park's Children's Gardening Workshops in 2014. The free monthly workshop series at the Great Park's Farm + Food Lab provides hands-on gardening activities for children ages 3-to-9. The 2014 series of Children's Gardening Workshops is set to begin this Sunday, January 12.
Kids can participate in creative workshops, such as Growing a Rainbow, Three Sisters Gardening and The Web of Life and will discover and practice sustainable gardening. Kids can take home their new skills and apply them in their own garden with seeds, nectar flowers and environmentally friendly snail traps made in these special Great Park workshops.
The Children's Gardening Workshops will take place every second Sunday of the month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and run every 30 minutes beginning Sunday, January 12.
All workshops are free to the public and run through June 8, 2014. The Children's Gardening Workshop series has been developed in cooperation with the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Orange County and features instruction from gardening experts on sustainable home gardening practices.