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(C)love garlic? Follow these 8 Steps to Grow Your Own!
Bernadette Crehan Bernadette Crehan

(C)love garlic? Follow these 8 Steps to Grow Your Own!

Want to grow your own garlic this year? Now is the perfect time to get planting! Here in mid-Missouri, mid-October to early November is the ideal time to sow those garlic seed cloves in your garden. Read below for CCUA’s top tips for garlic growing!

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Growing Community: Cynthia’s Story
Bernadette Crehan Bernadette Crehan

Growing Community: Cynthia’s Story

Cynthia is an Opportunity Garden, 2023 Apprenticeship graduate, and attends all of CCUA’s events with her family—she is all in. Read Cynthia’s story to see the impact of CCUA’s programming.

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Vermicompost Gardening Workshop
Tamara Maddox Tamara Maddox

Vermicompost Gardening Workshop

How to make your own nutrient dense garden fertilizer by worm composting, or vermicomposting, using red wiggler (Eisenia fetida) worms. Matthew Dolan of the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture in central Missouri demonstrates how to get started with a homemade indoor worm bin.

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