Pot to Pan: Container Gardening & Growing Food With Annie Novak
In this 3-part seminar, learn how to transform your windowsill, deck, terrace, rooftop, or yard into an edible oasis.
Course Description
Regardless of where you live, you can turn small indoor and outdoor spaces into abundant gardens and stunning sources of fresh food. Join Annie Novak for a three-part intensive on the fundamentals of container gardening—covering everything from selecting containers, growing media, and plants to the basics of garden design. You’ll have the chance to workshop your own planting plan or improve an existing garden with simple but effective methods for growing a robust harvest of vegetables and herbs. You’ll also learn how today’s garden technology—including sprout trays, aerofarms, hydroponics, and grow lights—could be used to improve your harvest. By the end of this course, you’ll have a fully mapped container garden, and depending on your goals, the foundations of the garden itself, as well as access to resources for long-term care of your plants.
Gastro Obscura Courses: delving deep into the world’s culinary curiosities with expert instructors.
Syllabus at a Glance
There are three total sessions included in this purchase, each lasting for 1.5 hours on 3 consecutive Thursdays beginning June 17.
Session 1 (Thursday, June 17, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM): Getting Growing: Assessing your site and setting goals
Session 2 (Thursday, June 24, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM): Planting Plan: Mapping out your containers and plants
Session 3 (Thursday, July 1, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM): Gardenuation: Final touches, long-term planning, and graduation
Between Sessions
Students will be given brief assignments (including a worksheet, plant research, and mapping tasks) that will help them map out and/or implement their garden designs.
Course Materials
In the first session, Annie will walk through suggested materials and where to find them for those who are interested in designing and developing their gardens during class. These materials include:
- Container ($15 - $120)
- Soil ($8 - $16 per bag)
- Seeds or transplants ($2.50 - $8)
Please note that no materials are required to take this course; while students will eventually need materials to begin their gardens, they may also choose to simply map out their designs over the course of the class.
Pricing Options
If you are unable to pay the ticket price for this course, a limited number of no-pay spots are available to increase accessibility for students, regardless of economic situation. Please note that this option is first-come, first-served, and reserved for those who would not otherwise be able to take this course. To learn more about our approach to pricing, including no-pay options, please visit our FAQ page.
Atlas Obscura Online Courses
Our online courses offer opportunities for participants to emerge with new skills, knowledge, connections, and perspectives through multi-session classes designed and taught by expert instructors. Courses can take one of two forms: Seminars are intimate, interactive classes—capped at nine to 25 students—exploring topics and crafts through discussion, workshops, assignments, and in-class activities. We also offer lecture series that can be attended live, or viewed via a recording that will be shared within 72 hours after each session airs. Class recordings for lecture series will be available with a temporary password for up to two weeks following the final session of the course.
To learn more about our current course offerings, please visit www.atlasobscura.com/online-courses.
For answers to commonly asked questions, check out our FAQ page here.
Once registered, you’ll receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite that will provide access to the class meeting. Please save the confirmation email as you’ll use it to access your course via Zoom on each scheduled date and time.
Annie Novak is the founder and director of Growing Chefs, field-to-fork food education program; the Manager of the Edible Academy at the New York Botanical Garden, and co-founder and farmer of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in partnership with Goode Green and Broadway Stages. She is the author of The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof into a Garden or Farm, published by Ten Speed Press.
A passionate educator, Annie teaches locally & nationally, and has spoken at conferences around the country on the connections between people, food and ecology, and the benefits of urban agriculture.
This is an interactive, small-group, seminar-style course that meets over Zoom. Students may be invited to participate in discussions, workshop their projects, and receive feedback from the course instructor.
In most cases, instructors will use Google Classroom to communicate with students outside of class. While students aren’t required to use Classroom, instructors will be using this platform to post resources, discussion questions, and assignments, when applicable.
We provide closed captioning for all of our courses, as well as transcripts upon request. Please reach out to us at experiences@atlasobscura.com if you have any questions, requests, or access needs.
