Instructor: Pam Perry
E-e-w gardening in summer in Phoenix? People do that? Yes! When temperatures flirt with 117 degrees, nights don’t cool, and fall is far away, summer gardeners grow lush, green, productive oasis in the desert and get a harvest to boot! Our garden soils remain alive.
Eggplants, Armenian cucumbers and a variety of melons are productive in the summer. With care and the right conditions, tomatoes can produce even into July. Sweet potatoes become an ever expanding ground cover providing fresh greens for summer meals and the promise of a fall harvest. Okra, the world’s most maligned vegetable, lives up to its hibiscus connections providing lovely flowers each morning. Eat young okra in salads, or prepared in traditional ways. Harvests of onions, garlic, and leeks make way for monsoon-planted legumes and corn. Basils ornament the garden, invite bees galore, and provide flavor to sweets and savories. Butterflies and hummingbirds visit. What could be better? Enjoy fresh, seasonal eating-- like a real ‘foodie’!
Class price:
1 Adult $15 prepaid/$18 at the door
Attend with a Friend: 2 Adults $25 prepaid or $30 at the door.
Children ages 14 and under are free. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
After you register for this class, you will receive an invoice. There will be a link in the invoice so you can pay in advance via PayPal. Other options: pay over the phone: 602-535-4635 ext 100 or ext 105, or pay by check via mail or in person. If you have any questions, please call or email.
Payments at the door may be made via cash or check.
About the Instructor: Pam Perry grew up gardening in Vermont, and is a graduate of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont. She is a certified Cooperative Extension Master Gardener in three states, including ours. She was a grower and design consultant at a Colorado nursery where her focus was in herbaceous perennials. In California, Pam was the grower for Morningsun Herb Farm. Moving to Phoenix, for several years she was the garden designer for a 4 diamond resort. Pam is current president of the Arizona Herb Association and has actively participated in care of the demonstration gardens at Maricopa County Cooperative Extension office.
About the location:
Asbury United Methodist Church has been nicknamed "the cupcake church" for the distinctive chapel that faces Indian School Road. The motto of the church is "a place for all people." Asbury, in partnership with the International Refuge Committee (IRC) of Phoenix has a community garden which is maintained and farmed by several refugee families with the support of the IRC. Asbury’s future plans are to both expand the Community Garden as well as open it up to people in the neighborhood, to grow healthy, sustainable food.
Asbury is also home to a community orchard, of approximately 40 miniature urban fruit trees, which is open to the people of our surrounding neighborhoods, as a way to provide healthy and nutritious fruit to those in need.
Learn more about Asbury, their programs and their congregation here: http://www.aplaceforallpeople.org/
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