Ecological Gardening

Practical Permaculture for Resilience and Regeneration

Taught by Spencer Nielsen

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We are living in a time in which a collective realization is dawning: our future is uncertain. Now is the time to develop practical skills in creating intensely local food systems, resiliently resourced communities, and in becoming allies of the Earth.

 

This spring we are offering a new, intensely practical course in developing and applying the skills needed to grow food and plant medicine, this growing season! If you've been contemplating designing and installing a veggie garden but have been uncertain how and where to start--join us! Are you looking for community in sharing plant-growing knowledge? Interested in bringing an ecological awareness to your land stewardship and gardening practices to have an ever-more positive effect on the land? This course is for you.

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The course will cover:

• Ecological and Permacultural principles

• Garden design:

  • "site analysis"

  • "reading the landscape"

• Soil 

  • soil ecology, chemistry, biology

  • anaerobic ferments

  • cover crops

  • sheet mulching

  • carbon sequestration

  • compost, compost tea, worm bins

• Water:

  • rainwater harvesting, swales

  • irrigation systems

  • earthworks

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Dates:

Core Educational Content (On-line, via Zoom, with supportive video content)

Saturdays, 9am to noon with a 15 minute break

Dates: February 20, March 20, April 3, April 17, May 1, June 5

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