Name: Community Class: Growing Food in Iowa
Start: 2026-03-12T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-12T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Wheatsfield Cooperative

Beginner class with farmer Alice on planting a home food garden—soil basics, seed packets, timing, organic pests, plus Q&A and seedlings.
About this Event

Join vegetable farmer Alice for this beginner’s class, which will touch on what, when and how to plant a home food garden with tips on how to manage weeds and pests organically. Learn the basics of soil, how to read a seed packet, look at Extension publications to figure out when to plant and when to harvest, as well as how to prepare your garden plot. There will also be time to ask your personal questions, and you will get to take home some spring seedlings to plant.

Meet the Instructor!

Alice McGary, Mustard Seed Community Farm

Alice is a farmer and food justice activist with the Mustard Seed Community Farm, now in its 17th growing season! She works at Wheatsfield in our Front End on Monday mornings.