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Virtual Backyard Compost and Soil Health Workshop

April 25, 2020 by Sustainable Fairfax Leave a Comment

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

Tagged With: backyard compost, slider, zero waste

Backyard Compost and Soil Health Workshop

September 22, 2019 by Sustainable Fairfax Leave a Comment

Backyard Compost and Soil Health Workshop

HEALTHY SOIL MAKES YOUR GARDEN GROW!

Sunday, September 22 at 10am
Fairfax Backyard Farmer
135 Bolinas Rd., Fairfax
RESERVE YOUR SPOT!
Note: The event is currently full, but you can still sign up and automatically be put on a waitlist. There is still a good chance you could get in, or be first on the list for our next one!
Discover how to make the soil in your garden a vital living ecosystem.
In this free 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 your soil for winter.

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.

Supported by the Fairfax Backyard Farmer, Town of Fairfax and Sustainable Fairfax.

Tagged With: backyard compost, getting to our roots, Slide, soil, zero waste

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