Brad will be speaking at 10 am and 2 pm on February 20, 2010.
See below for the full seminar schedule.
Dates: Saturdays from January 9 to February 20, 2010.
Location: Santa Fe Greenhouses, 2904 Rufina St, Santa Fe NM 87507
Cost: $7.50 per seminar with a $5 discount coupon for use in the SFG store.
There is also a Seminar Pass available for all 7 seminars for $35.
For more information: Call (505) 473-2700 or toll free (877) 811-2700, or visit santafegreenhouses.com/events.php

Santa Fe Greenhouses presents:
“Plant it Together: Food, Flowers and Fun”

Seminar Schedule

1/9/2010 @ 2pm, Xeriscaping is Green:  Integrating Food, Flowers and Environmentally Responsible Landscaping
Presented by David Salman, President & Chief Horticulturist, Santa Fe Greenhouses
Learn how you can be an eco-contributor with “green” xeriscaping. Discover the essential connections in your garden and landscape between plant diversity, pollinators, growing food and living soils that create the web of life. This talk will provide practical information for creating a water thrifty landscape that provides food, beauty and enjoyment in an environmentally friendly fashion.
1/16/2010 @ 2pm, Designing Integrity: Natives and Edibles as Foundation Plants
Presented by Christie Green, Landscape Designer and Proprietress of Down to Earth, LLC
Christie Green will engage participants in the landscape design process with particular attention to incorporating native and edible plant species as resilient, useful foundation plantings for all garden types and sizes. Ecological integrity and ingenuity inform Christie’s designs; she will share suggestions for approaching the landscape with fresh creativity.
1/23/2010 @ 2pm, Vegetable Gardening Basics
Presented by Jim Sais – Horticultural Consultant and Co-host of NM Gardentalk on KKOB Radio
Growing a vegetable garden is healthful, cost effective and rewarding.  One of New Mexico’s favorite gardening teachers will discuss designing and planning your veggie garden from seed choices to tried and true care and planting techniques.
1/30/2010 @ 2pm, Building your Soil Naturally
Presented by Greg Birkenfeld, President of Soil Mender
The foundation of every garden is healthy, living soil.  Learn about adding natural and organic soil amendments to develop rich and fertile soil.  Start your garden right with Greg’s down and dirty soil secrets and reap the benefits!
2/6/2010 @ 2pm, Junque Yards: Creative Gardening with Found Objects
Presented by Scott Calhoun, Author and Landscape Designer
Join award-winning gardening author Scott Calhoun as he shares his creative ideas on how to repurpose found objects and use them in your landscape. Back by popular demand, Scott’s humor, excellent photography and innovative sense of design will entertain and inspire you to have fun in your garden. There will be a book signing following his talk.
2/13/2010 @ 2pm, Grow Your Own Fruit
Presented by Ron Walser, Fruit specialist, NMSU’s Agricultural Science Center at Los Lunas
Ron will share his 35 years of experience and knowledge in researching and organically growing fruits and berry plants as the urban small farm specialist. Attendees will come away with knowledge of the best techniques and fruit varieties for Northern New Mexico.
2/20/2010 @ 10am & 2pm, Water Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
Presented by Brad Lancaster, Author/Integrated Systems Designer/Consultant
In his best-selling, award-winning books, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Brad Lancaster encourages us to turn water scarcity into water abundance by welcoming rainwater, storm water runoff, and grey water into our lives, landscape, and soil.  Sharing techniques and strategies from around the world, some ancient, some new, from the home scale to the neighborhood and community scale, readers are empowered to create their own integrated water-sustainable landscape plans, and implement them.