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Home maintenance, local workshops

This is the time of year when workshops on every sort of home-maintenance related subject abound around the city. Whether you're interested in installing solar panels on your roof, or planting an edible garden, communities and stores in and around the city host several different kinds of workshops.

Here are just a few we've found while surfing the 'net.

The Toronto Botanical Garden, located beside Edwards Gardens, offers a variety of courses from creating your own edible garden to building with earth.



Gardengreen.ca offers plenty of one-day events throughout the year, catering to Ward 21 in Toronto. In May they are holding a workshop on "Low Water Gardening."

The Kortright Center offers Green Energy and Green Home workshops throughout the year. You can learn how to install your own solar panels, as well as what are the cleanest and greenest building materials on the market.

The Big Box stores also have some home maintenance workshops.
The Home Depot has a list of upcoming workshops, covering subjects from "Enhancing your backyard space" to "You can install Vinyl Replacement windows" ....no, really, you can.

Rona offers a list of Do it Yourself workshops, not surprisingly, the first few focus on outdoor projects from deck and fence building to roof vent and eavestrough installation.

The newest Big Box Store on the Block is Lowes. The company has project guides and material calculators on the website.

If you want variety in your workshops, Lee Valley Tools is the place to go. While it offers basic courses on tree pruning, because it sells woodworking tools, they also offer couses such as "Relief Carving: Carving an Arabian Horse Head in Relief." The latter is offered on May 17th at the Toronto East store, there are still spaces available.

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