<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Rachel Firak <<a href="mailto:rfirak@gmail.com">rfirak@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">January 14, 2011 8:49:01 AM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">List Serve <<a href="mailto:TC-HSC-L@cornell.edu">TC-HSC-L@cornell.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Dryden Community Garden Offers "Grow Your Own" Classes</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Rachel Firak <<a href="mailto:rfirak@gmail.com">rfirak@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Dryden Community Garden is now offering free "Grow Your Own" classes every third Tuesday of the month from 5:30-6:30 pm at the Dryden Community Center Cafe. <br><br>Join us this upcoming Tuesday, January 18th, for a discussion on choosing what to grow this year, how many plants to grow for your family size, and plant varieties that do well in this area. Bring your favorite seed catalogs!<br> <br><a href="http://drydencafe.org/index.html">http://drydencafe.org/index.html</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">January is when we start planning our gardens; seed catalogs are the best defense against cabin fever.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please attend and bring friends and spread the word and encouragement that everyone can and grow some of their own food either at home or at Dryden's Community garden. I still hear it often, "I didn't know Dryden had a community garden."</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Join us for the first of a new series of free classes at Dryden Community Center Cafe: Grow Your Own. A fresh topic on the third Tuesday of every month 5:30 - 6:30. Intended to be both a class and a discussion group, lead by Kerra Quinn (Dryden Community Garden co-founder and Garden Question Answerer At-large), all levels of know-how are asked to attend; meaning - don't just come to learn, if you have garden knowledge please come to share. Bring your favorite seed catalogs.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">January's topic:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Seed Selection</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> or</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Will I actually eat a rutabaga if I grow them?</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> or</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> How to not produce more zucchini than anyone really needs.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Choose your vegetables!</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Deciding that you want to grow your own food and need to have a garden is easy. Deciding what to grow and how much seed you'll need to buy and when and where and how to start planting can be daunting. A gardener's all time favorite January event - seed catalog perusal.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">There will be nice pots of herbal teas from locally harvested plants and homegrown mint. Children are welcome. Be prepared to take notes.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For more information, contact Kerra Quinn at </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="mailto:kerraquinn@gmail.com">kerraquinn@gmail.com</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> or Rachel Firak at </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="mailto:rfirak@gmail.com">rfirak@gmail.com</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>