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Soil Health Check Up
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ONSITE | Wednesday, March 27, 1:30 - 4 p.m.
Instructor: Laura Lengnick
$55 Adult Non-Member
(**Arboretum Members receive a 10% discount on all classes.)
BREG - Core (Soils Requirement) | BRN - Elective 2 hours
Learn why healthy soils are critical to the well being of our communities and how to cultivate landscapes that promote soil health. This practical, hands-on course set at the Arboretum will cover how to conduct simple but effective soil monitoring.
This class fulfills the Soils core requirement for the Blue Ridge Gardener Certificate of Merit program.
Laura Lengnick is an award-winning soil scientist and author of “Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate.” She has been a sustainable food systems researcher, activist and educator for almost 30 years. A lifelong gardener, Lengnick currently cultivates a diverse mix of vegetable, fruit, medicinal, culinary and ornamental plants using biointensive and permaculture practices on her two-acre mini-farm in Buncombe County. Cultivatingresilience.com
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