The Tower Garden & Seedling Workshop in Cumming is not your average Gardening 101 tutorial, teaching conventional horizontal dirt gardening. Instead, attendees of the workshop will learn how to grow delicious fruits and vegetables using a tower garden, a vertical, dirtless method of gardening that takes up 90 percent less space than traditional dirt gardens, making it ideal for small spaces like decks, balconies and roofs. The Tower Garden & Seedling Workshop will be at the ALT Urban Farms Facility in Cumming on Saturday, Aug. 16 at 10 a.m.

The workshop will teach attendees more about how tower gardens work, explaining what to plant and how and when to harvest the bounty. Cost is $25 per person or $40 per couple, and the ATL Urban Farms Facility is located at 6976 Frix Rd., Cumming, Ga. 30028, just 25 minutes northwest of Brookhaven at Lanier Ridge. If you are not already a resident, feel free to stop by the community on your way to or from the Tower Garden workshop.

Brookhaven at Lanier Ridge has only a few more active adult homes left. Priced from the $280,000s, these elegant and spacious two to three bedroom ranch condominiums include highly desired features like master suites on the main floor, guest retreats with full baths, two-car garages, 500 square-foot bonus rooms, vaulted ceilings and brick and stone facades. Large screened back porches, inviting front porches and optional sun rooms are also available.

This active adult community also offers maintenance free living, community gates and a perimeter fence, as well as a refreshingly beautiful pool, gas grill, outdoor fireplace and clubhouse with exercise center and gourmet kitchen.

Brookhaven at Lanier Ridge is just two miles from Lake Lanier, Georgia’s largest lake, and is convenient to North Point Mall, The Collection at Forsyth and Northside Hospital Forsyth.

For more information about Jim Chapman Communities’ Brookhaven at Lanier Ridge, visit www.jimchapmancommunities.com.