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Green Valleys Association Sponsors Permaculture Principles Workshop March 17
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The Green Valleys Association at Welkinweir will host a Permaculture Principles Workshop on March 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Green Valley's office in Pottstown, Montgomery County.
The workshop will showcase how to create sustainable gardens and landscapes by modeling Permaculture principles and practices.
Workshop and hands-on activities will explore understanding soil, building soil health, and structuring human landscapes that model nature’s way. Participants will receive a copy of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway.
Workshop topics include:
-- Bottom up Gardening, Basic Soil Biology - The composition of a healthy rhizosphere, the beneficial bacteria and fungi, and plant and soil relationship dynamics.
-- Building Soil health using Compost Teas - Determining which compost tea 'recipe' is right for your land and where to obtain the ingredients and equipment; Brewing, handling and applying compost tea, and determining an 'application regimen' for healing and improving soil and plants.
-- Permaculture principles and ethics - Hear how to implement this system to create a future that is beyond merely sustainable!; Learn how permaculture can be applied, not only to create abundance in for our gardens and farms, but also to the many of the other facets of our lives.
The presenter will be Melissa Miles is the Organizer and Lead Instructor for the Eastern Pennsylvania Permaculture Guild. She serves as a Director at the Permanent Futures Institute at Two Miles Micro-Farm. Her training is in Environmental Biology, Conservation Planning, and Permaculture Design. Melissa's particular areas of interest include integrating Permaculture ethics and principles and bioremediation/ecological restoration and agroforestry projects.
Click Here for more information and to register or call 610-469-7543 or send email to: victoria@greenvalleys.org.
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2/27/2012 |
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