Hello Gardeners! Are you ready to start a new garden or expand your existing one?
Tired of buying bags of soil amendments,renting tillers or searching your neighborhood for composted materials?
Learn how to build nutrient-rich, friable garden soil without relying on petrol-powered machines and loads of off-site inputs.
This hands-on workshop- to be held on Wednesday, May 2nd from 11-12:30 will demonstrate sheet mulching (aka ‘lasagna gardening’) and over cropping-permaculture techniques that utilize microbes, organic matter and time to create soil the way it happens in the natural world.
Join garden-designer Sarah Bush and the volunteers of the Armstrong Community Garden as we lay the foundation of our gardens in an intentional, sustainable way.
This workshop is appropriate for all gardeners; feel free to come and get your hands dirty or just observe and learn!
Please RSVP to info@prlc.net
The Armstrong Preserve and Education Center is located at 1361 Old Post Rd. in Pound Ridge. (aka Rt 121 just past the causeway heading north).
- About the instructor: Sarah Bush has created food gardens for a variety of public and private spaces throughout the country. She focuses on integrating edibles into the existing landscape and uses low-maintenance methods that mimic patterns in nature. She has most recently received certification in edible forest garden design. She lives and gardens here in Pound Ridge with her partner Tate Bushell, the new resident land steward for the PRLC. This workshop is part of the ‘living lighter on the land’ series of the Armstrong Education Center.
