Take Your Compost Game to the Next Level
Join us for a hands-on composting workshop with composting guru Garth Ludwig from Homestead Harvest! Whether you’re just getting started or ready to turn up the heat (literally), this workshop is packed with practical tips and insider knowledge.
Learn how to:
- Build and maintain a hot compost system
- Brew powerful weed tea compost
- Troubleshoot the good, the bad, and the dirty parts of your pile
- Prep your soil and compost ahead of “putting your garden to bed”
Perfect for gardeners, homesteaders, and anyone who wants to transform food and yard waste into black gold for their soil.
👉 Bring your questions, your curiosity, and maybe even your compost troubles — we’ll dig into it all!
Tickets: $25 non-members; Members FREE; Limited to 20 participants
The Community Garden Bed Renters Orientation – Closed to the Public
April 18 Greenhouse Community Garden Renters, Location: Greenhouse Community Garden
A Composting workshop, facilitated by Garth Ludwig will be a critical part of this session to ensure all bed renters know how to correctly use the compost system in the garden. Permaculture is based on good composting.
The Community Garden Bed Renters Orientation – Closed to the Public
April 17 – Mt Nelson Renters – 6:00 to 7:30 PM Location: Mt Nelson Community Garden
A Composting workshop, facilitated by Garth Ludwig will be a critical part of this session to ensure all bed renters know how to correctly use the compost system in the garden. Permaculture is based on good composting.
Garden Basics – a little social chit chat before the workshop begins. So nice to find your Tribe.
Gardening Basics Workshop Series
Ensure Success
A WORK AND LEARN SERIES
Get your hands dirty working in the greenhouse while you learn!
Opportunity for gardeners to be gentler on the earth while harvesting more nutritious food…
Part 4. Composting and Pruning
- Composting can be as simple or as exciting as you want to make it. We will explore the many ways to compost. Make compost tea and have a tea party for the plants and look at the role of worms in composting.
- Pruning your vegetables and tomatoes is critical to a good harvest – learn when and how to do it to increase your yield and maximize your crop. You will actually prune tomatoes in the greenhouse.
Date: May 30, 2023
Time: 6:00-8:30
Workshop site: Groundswell Greenhouse
Cost: Members (Regular and Premium) – $25.00 Non Members $30.00
Supported by: Groundswell Network Society and Home Hardware
What to bring: Your Garden Journal, your garden gloves, trowel, water bottle, photos of bedding plants you started at home.
***NOTE: if you book all 4 programs in this series the total cost for members is $80.00, a savings of $20. Ticket available in part 1
