Staunton Recreation & Parks Summer 2014 Brochure

outdoor & Gardenin g - From Lawn to Lush: How to Start, Maintain, and Enjoy a Garden Join us at the new Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind Educational Farm and learn how to turn your yard into a beautiful and productive vegetable garden! Whether you want to feed yourself and your family or simply enjoy working with plants outside, this workshop series is right for you. Garden Educators, Emily Melvin and Ben Samuelson, from the Allegheny Mountain School, along with guest instructors, Holly Parker and Sue McKown, will teach the basics of cultivating a garden amidst the new and growing VSDB Educational Farm. This will be a hands-on workshop, where you can get your hands dirty and actually build a garden. Children are welcome. Register with Staunton Parks & Recreation by a week prior to class. Starting a Garden: Learn about the requirements for a successful garden site with topics such as soil preparation, sheet mulching to turn your lawn into a garden, garden layout, raised bed construction, starting from seed, transplanting, and growing vegetables to obtain an abundant harvest. #5003 May 3 from 10am – 12:30pm. Price: $5 Maintaining Your Garden: Managing weeds, thwarting pests, backyard composting, mulching, harvesting. #5004 July 19 from 10am – 12:30pm. Price: $5 Enjoying the Fruits of Your Labor: Putting the garden to sleep for next year, season extension, food storage and a harvest potluck--along with Q&A sharing with the instructors and staff! #5005 September 20 from 11am–1:30pm. Price: $5 Fun with Fish of the Shenandoah Valley Prepare to be splashed and slimed as you learn the ins and outs of the fish that live in your local rivers. Jason Hallacher, Assistant Aquatic Biologist with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, will talk about his role with VDGIF and how they manage game fish in Virginia. #5006 Outside at Gypsy Hill Park, 6:30pm-8pm on August 5. Please call for location, to register refer to page 24. Price: Free. Virginia Game & Inland Fisheries Hunter Education Course Virginia now requires all first time hunters and hunters who are between 12 and 15 years of age to complete this FREE 12 hour course. Course will cover: firearm safety, archery, modern & black powder firearms, tree stand safety, outdoor survival, map & compass use, basic first aid, turkey & waterfowl hunting, ethics and more. GHPGC 6pm–10pm on August 9. Price: Free, but pre-registration required by visiting www.dgif.virginia.gov Geocaching: What is it? Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, anywhere in the world. Learn the history of geocaching, how to use a GPS and how to locate geocaches. It’s a High Tech Treasure Hunt! Instructor: Lou Armentrout. #5007 MHPA, 9am-12pm on August 2. Price: $5. Register by: July 25 4

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