Grow Your Health Gardening & Wellness Festival

The Grow Your Health Festival will provide classes and exhibits on how people can garden their way to

good health, understand what “organic” really means, find sources for

local food and make sustainable, healthy food choices! Festival attendees will be able to choose from 21 classes and

demonstrations on beginning and advanced gardening topics, finding local

food sources, and healing oneself with proper nutrition. These classes

will empower festival attendees to improve the quality of the food they

eat, start gardens, and build community.



The festival also offers a “pop-up” food court that will sell meat,

vegetarian, and raw food alternatives using farm-fresh ingredients from

local vendors.

Further details are as follows:

• Gardening workshops
  
  include Starting Your First Garden, Managing Bugs and Pests
  
  without Chemicals, Feeding the Soil, Gardening in Partial Shade,  Small
  
  Space Gardening, Gardening with Kids, and Advanced Gardening
  
  Methods (Biodynamic Permaculture and Foodscaping)
• Nutrition and Health classes
  
  will include such topics as Understanding How Nutrition Connects
  
  to Better Health, Unconventional Sources for Buying Quality Food,
  
  Eating Organic on a Limited Budget, Canning Summer Produce, Making Your
  
  Own Probiotic Foods, Better Lunches At School.
• Exhibitors
  
  include over 45 local farmers, food artisans, nutritionists,
  
  health & wellness coaches, bloggers, and local advocacy groups.