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Virtual Backyard Compost and Soil Health Workshop

April 25, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

HEALTHY SOIL MAKES YOUR GARDEN GROW

Discover how to make the soil in your garden a vital living ecosystem!

In this workshop, you will learn:

1) How to turn your food scraps into garden gold by creating your own backyard compost.

2) What you can do to prepare healthy soil.

This workshop is FREE.

We invite you to log in before 10am using the following Zoom Meeting link

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85056130821

Some tips and suggestions

During this meeting please keep your audio muted unless you are called upon to speak. If you have questions during the class please use the CHAT feature to ask them and we will have the instructors address them during the question and answer portion. During this question and answer portion please use RAISE HAND feature to be called upon

To avoid slow connection and loss of your video stream we recommend you minimize all other internet usage on your local network during the class. As happens from time to time if you lose your connection you may have to log backinto the session manually,

Here are a few links which you may find helpful after the class

https://www.ediblelandscapingmadeeasy.com/

https://robertkourik.com/

https://www.fairfaxbackyardfarmer.com/

We look forward to learning with you!

 


INSTRUCTOR: AVIS LICHT

Avis Licht has a degree in from UC Berkeley in Agricultural Sciences, and apprenticed with the great horticulturist, Alan Chadwick, who brought bio-dynamic, French Intensive gardening to this country. She founded the Commonweal Garden in Bolinas 40 years ago and was instrumental in the founding of the Indian Valley College Organic Farm and Garden. She has a gardening blog that covers all aspects of gardening and uses her own 1/2 acre garden in Woodacre for teaching.


Event will be held via ZOOM!  You will be given the link after you register for the workshop.
Questions?  Write to JenniferH@sustainablefairfax.org

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