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We are happy to come to your organization and share knowledge about the topics listed below. Online options are also possible, and workshops can be delivered to your group on Wednesdays through Saturdays. Daytime offerings are preferred, but evenings are also possible.

Custom workshops are also available. Please be in touch using the form below to share what you are looking for. Composting Basics, Worm Composting, and Soil Life workshops can be shortened for a one hour-long “lunch and learn” format.

Workshops

  • Growing Indoor Microgreens and Sprouts

    $265 · 1.5 hrs

    Do you wish you had a mini garden all winter long to harvest from right in your kitchen? You can! Come learn the ins and outs of microgreen growing and sprouting in your home so that you can have nutrient dense greens all year round, rain or shine, cold or hot.

    We’ll cover:

    • helpful equipment
    • difference between microgreens & sprouts
    • how to grow these tender greens (seed selection, timing, care)
    • nutrition benefits
    • troubleshooting

    Since the equipment and skills are similar, we’ll also spend some time learning the specifics of how to grow healthy vegetable seedlings for your garden.

  • Seedling Starting

    Contact for price quote · 1-2 hrs

    Learn simple techniques for analysing your soil quality through this hands-on workshop

    We’ll measure the physical and biological quality of soil using the following practical tools you can also use at home:

    • Soil texture test
    • Soil aggregation test (slake test)
    • Water infiltration rate
    • Earthworm count
    • Rizosheath assessment
    • Nodulation of legumes

    Knowing these details can help inform next steps for stewarding your soil, and provide important baseline information for your gardening journey.

  • Practical Tools for Measuring Soil Health

    Contact for price quote · 1-2 hrs

    Learn simple techniques for analysing your soil quality through this hands-on workshop

    We’ll measure the physical and biological quality of soil using the following practical tools you can also use at home:

    • Soil texture test
    • Soil aggregation test (slake test)
    • Water infiltration rate
    • Earthworm count
    • Rizosheath assessment
    • Nodulation of legumes

    Knowing these details can help inform next steps for stewarding your soil, and provide important baseline information for your gardening journey.

  • Worm Composting

    $200 · 1-2 hrs

    Everything you need to know about starting up and maintaining a worm bin compost system, also known as vermicomposting. Perfect for small space composting and apartment living, or in addition to other composting systems you already have started at your home. Vermicompost is every gardener’s dream as a finished soil amendment, and serves as a fast, easy food waste diversion tool. 

  • Advanced Composting

    $200 · 1-2 hrs

    Advanced Composting aims to broaden the scope of participants’ knowledge of composting methods.  Topics covered will include dynamic accumulators and hot composting, compost tea, in-situ composting methods and humanure.