Beautiful Landscapes with Purpose For People, Pets and Wildlife

Toad Hollow Designs specializes in helping homeowners create beautiful landscapes with purpose for people, pets/livestock, and wildlife.

Instructor Bio: Samantha Zistatsis has nurtured plants and edibles organically in the Issaquah area her entire life with animals and among woods and wetlands. After training and working as an engineer, she applied design and process skills to the garden. She served as President and Vice President of the Issaquah Garden Club and became certified as a Landscape Design Consultant. Her passion is helping people make their gardens more beautiful, maintainable and productive. A side interest in nutrition has added to that the goal of nourishing the soil so it can produce vegetation and animals with maximum health.

E-mail: toadhollow@integrity.com

Phone: 425-765-4767

Website: www.toadhollowdesigns.com

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Chick Starting! - March 26, 2011.  Grange Supply

It's about so much more than eggs!

Goal:  Have happy, healthy, and productive chickens that participate in your garden cycle!

Learn how to select breeds, set up a chick nursery, train them to forage, and set up your outdoor enclosures.  Powerpoint, handouts, and demostration.

Cost: Free

Date:         March 26, 2011.  10am

Location:  The Grange in Issaquah 425-392-6469  www.grangesupply.com

                 145 NE Gilman Blvd

                 Issaquah, WA 98027

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Canning and Food Preservation - June 11, 2011.  Grange Supply

Preserving the Harvest - Another Part of the Garden Cycle

You've worked hard to make your garden more productive or found great local sources, but now that all this great harvest is available, how do you store it? Come to a free class at The Grange in Issaquah to learn about canning – what foods are appropriate, supplies needed, and how the process works. We will discuss other food preservation methods as well: drying, freezing, fermentation, in-ground storage, and cold storage. 

Cost:        Free 

Date:       June 11th, 2011. 10am

Loction:  The Grange in Issaquah 

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Backyard Chickens - July 23rd, 2011. 

Now that your Chicks are Chickens

Have chicks or are thinking about them for next year? As the chicks grow, the list of questions grows as well! Come visit some backyard chickens in a country setting and talk about a holistic approach to keeping birds healthy and productive. Topics discussed will be:

·           Overall design for chore efficiency

·           Feed and foraging

·           Fencing and shelter

·           Egg production

·           Holistic approach to keeping birds healthy

·           Making chickens part of the organic garden cycle

·           Preparation for winter

Cost:       $20 per couple if pre-registered by July 15th; $25 after July 15th.

                 Children welcome but must be supervised.

Date:       July 23rd, 2011. 10am-12pm. 

Location: South Issaquah. Contact Toad Hollow Designs for registration and directions

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Want other dates or other subjects? Contact us to schedule these classes for your group:

Introduction to Vegetable Gardening - an Overview of Seed Starting to Harvest Storage

Are you new to vegetable gardening?  This class covers all the basic to getting started while best utilizing what your property has to offer.

Eating From the Garden

Learning to best utilize the foods that will grow in your particular Pacific Northwest garden involves a paradigm shift.  This class will discuss what is harvestable when and how to create dishes that maximize the produce you've worked so hard to grow.  Sometimes, this involves learning how to prepare foods not typically available at your local grocery.  The class will touch on permaculture techniques that work more with foraging than the arduous planting and harvesting.

Edible Landscaping Class or Tour

Yes you can have an attractive landscape that is very productive!

·         Basic concept – Using edibles in conjunction with ornaments to create an attractive and useful landscape. Look for places to include edibles and complementary plantings that attract beneficials and aid the soil.

·         Determine basic shape & purpose of plant – screen, shade

·         Determine constraints – water, deer, accessibility, light