From the Ground Up - Building Healthy Soils

Soil is the foundation of your garden and healthy soils produce healthy plants.  This class will teach you how to build and maintain healthy soils to create beautiful landscapes and bountiful gardens from the ground up.

Topics will include how to take soil samples, test for pH, how to interpret test results, and amend your soil as needed.  Your instructor will also discuss the benefits of cover crops, crop rotation, composting, and proper fertilization.

All together you will learn the steps needed to increase the nutritional content of your fruits and vegetables, reduce your garden's dependency on pesticides and herbicides, and create a more balanced and natural garden.

Instructor:  Christy Malone has 35 years of experience as a horticulturist involved in estate management, landscape design, plant taxonomy instruction and landscape water conservation education.   She has gardened in a number of extreme settings including Fairbanks, Alaska and Reno, Nevada (actually more challenging than Fairbanks).

She is excited to share her recipes for success in this presentation that will provide useful information for any person seeking the best result from their gardening endeavors.