Want to start a garden but don’t know where to begin? Planning and preparation are essential to the creation of productive, efficient, and beautiful vegetable and perennial gardens. In this class you will learn about garden design, plant varieties, seed starting, mulching, composting and fertilizing. Organic and “low-till” practices, native plants, and the inclusion of plants attractive to birds, bees, butterflies and other beneficials will be emphasized. A $10 fee for materials (handouts) is to be paid to instructor. This class will include a visit to the instructor’s nursery in Washington. Instructor Sharon Turner owns Crystal Lake Farm and Nursery in Washington, Maine. She specializes in open-pollinated vegetable and flower seedlings, native perennials, shrubs, trees, and cut flowers. She grows for Fedco Trees and the Knox-Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District. She has been a certified Master Gardener Volunteer for more than twenty years.