Thanks for your interest. Currently I am not holding workshops and presentations due to the COVID-19 epidemic until further notice. Please check back from time to time!

Workshops and Presentations

Generally, presentations require 50 minutes plus a 30-minute (or more) Q&A period.

Workshops require 2 hours.

Series workshops require 2 hours per session. I can schedule up to 3 sessions per day.

Workshop Topics

• Build it and they will grow: Designing Eco-Intensive Garden Beds
• Just Char It! Two Easy Methods for Making Biochar
• Making and Preparing Biochar for Horticultural Container Media
• Formulating and Blending Grow Media from Sustainable Substrates
• See Plant Grow! A Zonal System for Stocking Large Containers
• Boil and Bubble! Formulating Fermented Fertigation Solutions
• More to come.

Series Workshop Topics

• Growing the First Third of the Seasonal Household Diet:
  1. Overview
  2. Site Assessment and Mapping
  3. Determining Garden Size
  4. Designing the Garden
  5. Ordering Seeds
  6. Scheduling Planting and Harvesting
  7. Food Preservation – an Overview
• Making High-Quality composts for Container Media
  1. Making Thermal Compost
  2. Making Vermicompost
  3. Making Bokashi (fermented compost)
• A High-Production Zoning System (spikes and layers) for Large Containers
  1. Assembling the Container
  2. Preparing the spike and layer media

Presentation Topics

• Plants with Purpose: Designing Garden Polycultures for Beauty and Function
• Beauty and the Beast: Shooing Away Garden Pests by Planting Flowers
• From Sky to Soil: Sequestering Carbon into the Soil by Gardening
• Growing the First Third of the Household Seasonal Diet: an Overview
• Biochar and Compost for Landscape Horticulture
• More to come.