District 196 Community Education

If you want to learn how to create beautiful, healthy, and colorful container gardens, this discussion class is for you! Professional photographer and gardener, Michelle Mero Riedel, will help you discover fast growing, vigorous, nursery-quality plants with season long color. She’ll intersperse her discussions with image after image of beautiful combinations that are easily created. A detailed color handout of each container design recipe is provided and there’s plenty of time for questions. This is the perfect antidote to a long winter. Ask your favorite garden buddy to join you for this online discussion class and you can share the excitement and fun as you begin to plan your summer containers!

Closets, basements, attics, garages and storage units can be intimidating spaces to declutter and organize, creating “hidden clutter” that has accumulated behind closed doors in your home and in expensive storage units. Explore the reasons why we cling to items we will most likely never wear or use again, continually diminishing our peace-of-mind and our money. Learn how to fearlessly declutter, organize and empty these spaces to lighten your life and save time, money and energy. Reclaim peaceful clarity and spacious simplicity for a healthier mind, body and home.

Discover ten steps to lighten up and release your clutter and extra weight. Gain a fresh perspective on all that might be weighing you down. Learn how to release all that no longer serves your body, kitchen and home. Through guided visualization, understand the primary "domestic toxic interference" that is keeping you and your home overweight. Receive insightful ideas, gentle coaching and an opportunity for self-reflection and handouts. Also, receive an e-book that will energize you towards a lighter body, clutter-free home and a more spacious life.