'Beyond the backdoor' workshop teaches growing your own food

'Beyond the backdoor' workshop teaches growing your own food

ALEXANDRIA — Robin Trott is already looking forward to the first gardening event of the season, but she still remembers all the phone calls she got last summer. Longtime gardeners who’d been growing tomatoes, cucumbers and other crops were flooding her phoneline, asking why things weren’t growing. “The sunlight, the quality and the intensity of the sunlight was filtered through heavy smoke," says the Extension Educator for Douglas County. "And a…