{"id":2818,"date":"2024-12-30T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arlingtonurbanag.org\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T03:52:13","slug":"2025-spring-garden-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arlingtonurbanag.org\/es\/2025-spring-garden-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanzamiento del jard\u00edn de primavera de 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arlingtonurbanag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Small-Agenda.pdf\">Get your agenda here (pdf)<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/xMJ8rnN1GqeDWrKJ7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Registration has closed<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Thinking Globally &amp; Acting Locally: <\/i><\/b><b><i><\/i><\/b><b><i>Growing Food for Our Community<\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Join us on Saturday, March 29 at 10 am for interesting speakers, thoughtful breakout sessions, workshops, seed and seedling giveaways, partner organization representatives, and lots of great garden chats! Doors open and check in will begin at <strong>9:15 am<\/strong>. Come early to get down and dirty. <strong><a href=\"#tentative-2025-SGK-agenda\">Check out the tentative agenda here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>\u00a1NUEVA UBICACI\u00d3N!<\/strong> We&#8217;re excited to host the 2025 Kickoff at Marymount University&#8217;s Ballston Campus at 1000 N Glebe Rd, Arlington. We&#8217;re a 7 minute walk from the Ballston-Marymount University Metro station (Orange\/Silver), and parking will be also available. <strong><a href=\"#transportation-and-parking-at-MU\">See transportation and parking info here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Learn about FOUA&#8217;s Plot Against Hunger program<\/strong> &amp; how to get involved<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Sessions for Beginning to Experienced Gardeners<\/strong> &#8211; Soil needs, basic garden structures, seed starting &amp; transplanting, best varieties of crops for food pantries, transforming Virginia&#8217;s clay into fertile soil, permaculture techniques, timing plantings for optimum results<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Growing in the City<\/strong> &#8211; No Space? No Problem! Garden indoors, on a balcony, or patio with microgreens, sprouts, hydroponics, container gardens<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Mini Lessons on Gardening Practices<\/strong> &#8211; Beating the heat in a garden, garden thrift &amp; practicing 3 Rs, Winter sowing (growing seeds OUTDOORS for spring starts), bucket traps for mosquitoes<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Complot contra el Hambre<\/strong> gardeners&#8217; displays &amp; garden\/gleaning volunteering info<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Visit partner tables<\/strong> from Northern Virginia Cooperative Extension Service Master Gardeners, Arlington County, and more<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plot gardeners<\/strong> can collect containers\/bags for donations &amp; Plot Against Hunger garden signs<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>BONUS:<\/strong> Take home some free vegetable, herb and flower seeds!<\/li>\n<li><strong>PLUS:<\/strong> Join us for Brown Bag Roundtable Discussions at 12:45. Bring your lunch &amp; meet fellow gardeners in different groups: schoolyard gardens, faith-based gardens, food security &amp; agriculture issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This event is free, <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/xMJ8rnN1GqeDWrKJ7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registration is required<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u00bfQuieres ser voluntario el d\u00eda del inicio del Spring Garden? <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/yXhjb5jHhGnFnrDt6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let us know here!\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u00bfTe interesa ser patrocinador del evento Spring Garden Kickoff? Cont\u00e1ctanos en <a href=\"mailto:info@arlingtonurbanag.org\">info@arlingtonurbanag.org<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"tentative-2025-SGK-agenda\">Agenda<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Tentative Spring Garden Kickoff Agenda (subject to change)<\/h2>\n<table style=\"height: 930px;\" width=\"951\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9:15-10 AM<\/span><\/th>\n<th>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Doors open for attendees.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Browse exhibits downstairs, partner tables\/Plot tables\/\u201dlocal garden practices\u201d garden poster session on mezzanine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>GENERAL SESSION &#8211; Auditorium<\/b><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 am<\/span><\/th>\n<th>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Bienvenido<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/th>\n<th>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Remarks from Arlington County officials\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>The Issue of Hunger: Think Globally and Act Locally<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><b>Area Giving Gardens<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prince Georges Community College Pantry\/Garden<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lang Street Community Garden &#8211; how we give as a community<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Lady Queen of Peace (Isidore&#8217;s Garden)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><b>Plot Against Hunger Program &#8211; gardens &amp; gleaning program<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ways to Get Involved this Spring (Senior Experience; Saturdays in the Garden)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>11:15-11:30<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Coffee Break &amp; Browse exhibits<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Browse exhibits downstairs, partner tables\/Plot tables\/\u201dlocal garden practices\u201d garden poster session on mezzanine.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>11:30-12:15<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Breakout sessions &#8211; Third floor classrooms<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Learning the Basics: Getting Started with gardening<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Beyond the Basics: Learn from the Experts<br \/>\n* Gardening in Arlington<br \/>\n* Trusting Nature<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. No Space? No Worries! Growing indoors or with little space (sprouts, microgreens, hydroponics and container gardening)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>12:30-1:30<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Seedlings &#8211; Patio<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pl\u00e1ntulas<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>12:30-1:30<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Seed Library &#8211; Classroom<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seed Library<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>12:30-1:30<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><b>Roudtables: Bring a bagged lunch and meet other gardeners (upstairs Conference Room)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">l. Schoolyard Gardens<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Faith-based Gardens<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Getting involved in Plot\/food security issues<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<p id=\"transportation-and-parking-at-MU\">Transportation and Parking<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Transportation and Parking<\/h2>\n<p>Marymount University&#8217;s Ballston Campus is located at <strong>1000 N Glebe Road (at Fairfax Drive.)<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is a convenient 7 minute walk from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmata.com\/rider-guide\/stations\/ballston.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ballston-MU Metro Station,<\/a> serviced by the orange and silver lines and multiple bus lines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parking Options:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parking under the building is $6 for the entire day. An elevator from the garage will bring you straight into the building&#8217;s lobby. <a href=\"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/admissions\/graduate-students\/meet-with-us\/ballston-center\/#:~:text=Shuttle%20Service%20Schedule-,Parking,12%20a.m.%2C%20rates%20vary).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ballston Center\u2019s parking garage<\/a> can be accessed from the rear of the building, off N. Wakefield Street. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meter parking is available on N. Glebe Road and N. Fairfax Drive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlingtonva.us\/Government\/Programs\/Transportation\/Locations\/Ballston-Public-Parking-Garage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ballston garage,\u00a0 627 N. Glebe Rd.<\/a> (10 minute walk to Marymount Ballston) ($1 for 3 hours; $3 for 3-4 hours &#8212; remember that Ballston garage now requires prepayment at machines by the elevators.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free parking is available on neighborhood streets, but may be limited.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2897\" src=\"https:\/\/arlingtonurbanag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/new-SGK-location-reminder-MU-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex; gap:10px;justify-content:center\" class=\"wps-pgfw-pdf-generate-icon__wrapper-frontend\">\n\t\t<a  href=\"https:\/\/arlingtonurbanag.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818?action=genpdf&amp;id=2818\" class=\"pgfw-single-pdf-download-button\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/arlingtonurbanag.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-generator-for-wp\/admin\/src\/images\/PDF_Tray.svg\" title=\"PDF general\" style=\"width:auto; height:45px;\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your agenda here (pdf) Registration has closed Thinking Globally &amp; Acting Locally: Growing Food for Our Community Join us on Saturday, March 29 at 10 am for interesting speakers, thoughtful breakout sessions, workshops, seed and seedling giveaways, partner organization representatives, and lots of great garden chats! 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