Advocates for Health in Action (AHA) invites you to Dig In, our third annual event featuring the down and dirty on how to build and maintain and sustain community gardens in the Triangle!

Come discover the benefits of building a sustainable garden in your neighborhood, workplace, school, place of worship or your own backyard! Learn, network and break ground on a movement that cultivates community and great local food.

Workshops and Educational Booths
Join us for workshops featuring local urban farming experts and interactive, educational booths. This year, Dig In features workshops in two tracks:

• Track 1: Starting a Community Garden
• Track 2: Taking Your Garden to the Next Level

While the workshop is intended for adults (and interested teens), Marbles Kids Museum gardeners and staff invite the community to join in fun family gardening in Castaway Cove Kids Garden at the museum as well.

Space is limited for Dig In, so purchase your ticket(s) today. Each person attending must register.

Agenda*

8:30-9:00 am
Check-in and Tour the Booths

9:00-9:15 am
Welcome: Overview & Introductions

9:15-10:00 am
Concurrent Workshops

• Track 1: Starting a Community Garden--Kristen Warren and Maggie Tubilleja, Garner Grows Community Farm Garden
• Track 1: Growing School Gardens & Gardeners--Alice Bumgarner, Watts Montessori School Garden
• Track 2: Money Grows in Gardens: Business Ideas--Nick Johnson, The Cookery
• Track 2: You Grew It...Now Preserve It!  Benjamin and Ali Filippo, This and That Jam

10:00-10:15 am
Break and Tour the Booths

10:15-11:00 am
Concurrent Workshops

• Track 1: Composting: The "Dirt" on Good Dirt--Rhonda Sherman, NC State University
• Track 1: Garden in a Box: Raised Beds and Container Gardens--Jeana Myers, Wake County Cooperative Extension
• Track 2: Engaging Youth & Seniors in the Garden--Young Farmer Training Program Apprentices, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and Will Ammons, Cary Senior Center Community Garden
• Track 2: Lessons Learned: Keeping the Garden Growing--Brenda Brodie, SEEDS

11:00-11:15
Break and Tour the Booths

11:15-12:00
General Session: You Grew It...Now Cook It!--Carrie DiPietro, Whole Foods Market Cary and Andrea Mastruobono, Whole Foods Market Raleigh (Wade Ave.)

Take part in this hands-on session where everyone gets to prepare a garden-fresh dish and enjoy a taste of seasonal, local food. Get inspired about how to enjoy healthy foods fresh from your garden!

  *subject to change

Educational Booths*

• The Dirt on Dirt: Soil Testing:  Master Gardeners of Wake County
• Eating Healthy & Growing Healthy: Whole Foods Market and Carolina Worm Castings
• Healthy Active Fun: Marbles Kids Museum
• The Chicken Coop: Garner Grows Community Farm Garden and Friends of Hens
• How To's of Container Gardening: The Contained Farmer
• Where to Shop for Local Foods: Wake County Cooperative Extension
• Where to Dine on Local Food: 10% Campaign. Irregardless Cafe & Pullen Place Cafe & Catering
• Tasting Table: The Produce Box
• Water Wise: Rain Barrels: The Rain Barrel Company
• Seed Bombs & Other Fun: Sarah P. Duke Gardens
• For Your Health: Wake County Human Services
• Say No to Pesticides--Toxic Free NC
• Plant a Row for the Hungry--Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
• Whole Grain Goodness--Great Harvest Bread Co.-Cary
• Saving Seeds & Planting--Grow and Share

  *subject to change

Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships is available for Dig In. Please contact mmckinley@wakemed.org if a scholarship is needed.