• How to fit your bike to you: Learn how to get the most out of your pedal stroke or just make your body work better with your bicycle by making a few simple adjustments.
• How to fix that flat: Easily fix a flat using a patch kit and a new tube. We’ll also show some trail tips for emergency patch jobs.
• What, when, and where to lubricate: Another easily learned necessity that will keep your bike running sweet through the winter into the spring. Learn what a little lube can actually fix- you may be surprised!

Tuesdays starting at 11am we will work on a special project. We really need extra hands to get these important tasks done! Check out what we have coming up:

February 14th  Composting in Place: No till bed preparation to build soil fertility in our Hoop Houses. Lets send our Love to the Ground we grow in!

February 21st   Tool Shed Workday: emptying it, cleaning it, putting it back together, a perfect New Moon Project!

February 28th   Potting Shed Workday: Make room to Grow!

Thursdays start your day in the garden with some ChiYoga and then gain new gardening skills:

12-12:30   ChiYoga session guided by Katrina Aschenbrenner

12:30-1     Tea time!

1-2             Gain new gardening skills through a hands on training. New topics each week!

JOIN US! It’s all Free and Fun!

See you there!

BEANS (Better Eating, Activity, and Nutrition for Students) Program: The BEANS Program hires and trains high school students to be peer nutrition educators in their community. They learn about healthy eating and how to prepare nutritious food while incorporating local, seasonal produce. They reach hundreds of kids each school year in KUDOS After Schools Programs at Redwood Elementary, Dana Grey Elementary, and Fort Bragg Middle School where they deliver nutrition lessons each week along with making healthy recipes with the kids. Lessons focus on different topics each week. Each summer BEANS delivers free nutrition classes at Safe Passage Family Resource Center and hands out recipe samples at the Fort Bragg Farmers’ Market. We currently have six teens from Fort Bragg High School in our BEANS Team.

We offer 2 classes to teens at Fort Bragg High School through the ASSETS After School Enrichment Program.

Cooking from the Garden: Students are engaged in harvesting food from the Learning Garden and taking it straight to the cafeteria where they prepare a wide variety of meals focusing on healthy recipes that involve seasonal foods. This class is offered every Wednesday in the Student Union after school from 3:30-5:30.

Feed the School: Students work directly in the Learning Garden to help grow food for their school cafeterias. They participate in garden activities, such as making compost and fertilizing teas, planting seeds and seedlings, weeding, tending to plants and watering. This class takes place every Friday after school at The Learning Garden from 3:30-5:00.

This holiday season, give the gift that grows!  The Noyo Food Forest’s Donation Gift Cards are a unique holiday gift that supports the innovative Farm to School program at The Learning Garden at Fort Bragg High School.  Two denominations of cards allow you to grow salads for the school lunch program at Fort Bragg High School or keep a garden bed full of food for a year. All card purchases are tax-deductible and can be purchased at Rossi’s, MendoLake Credit Union, Laurel Deli and Down Home Foods. in Fort Bragg.  For more information, call us at 964-0218.  Happy Holidays!

The Mac House will donate dinner and bar proceeds for the evening to the Noyo Food Forest. Enjoy a delicious meal featuring regional, seasonal, and organic foods, or just stop by for a beverage.

For dinner reservations call 937-0289. For more information call 964-0218.

So far we have we have focused our lessons on the basics:  the food groups and parts of the plant we eat. The first week we made an apple snack (since apples are in season!) with almond butter, peanut butter, granola and dried fruit. Most kids really loved the almond butter! It’s more nutrient dense than peanut butter. We also made a corn and black bean salad and added a ton of fresh vegetables from The Learning Garden like carrots, red peppers, and kale along with avocado and a lime dressing with a few spices. Everyone loved that too, especially with a little Tapatio for spice!

Stay tuned for more updates on what these great teen peer educators are teaching and eating.

Joel Salatin, the farmer and author, will give a free talk Wednesday October 26th at 7:00 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room at Redwood Elementary School in Fort Bragg. Gallery Bookshop will be on hand with copies of his new book, Folks, This Ain’t Normal, and sales will benefit the Noyo Food Forest.

Salatin, hailed by the New York Times as “Virginia’s most multifaceted agrarian since Thomas Jefferson [and] the high priest of the pasture” was profiled in the Academy Award nominated documentary “Food, Inc.” and the bestselling book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”. In Folks, This Ain’t Normal he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love. Salatin writes with a wicked sense of humor and true storyteller’s knack for the revealing anecdote offering practical and philosophical ideas for changing our lives in small ways that have big impact.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call Gallery Bookshop at (707) 937-2665 or visit www.gallerybookshop.com, or call Noyo Food Forest at (707) 964 0218.