About this Event
In this engaging and informative workshop, you'll gain insights into how to make your garden healthy and resilient and how to invite and support beneficial insects, including pollinators. This holistic approach to gardening will help you control garden pests and diseases without toxic pesticides and build strong, beautiful ecosystems. You'll also learn about the concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), which offers clear and practical ways to keep your garden inhabitants in balance so you can have a welcoming and attractive outdoor space.
Workshop instructor Charlotte Canner is an Integrated Pest Management Advocate and Educator with the Our Water Our World program. She is also a coordinator of the California Alliance for Community Composting's "Community Composting for Green Spaces" grant program sponsored by CalRecycle. She graduated from GFE's Gardening and Composting Educator Training Program (Get Up!) iin 2015. Charlotte loves sharing her knowledge and passion for soil health, regenerative gardening practices, and building healthy, diverse ecosystems.
COVID-19 information:
- GFE Mask Guidelines: Please bring a mask to accommodate your comfort level in an outdoor group situation.
- Please bring your own gardening gloves for possible hands-on activities.
- Please cancel your shift and do not come to GFE if you develop COVID19 symptoms on or before the day of your workshop (fever, chills, repeated shaking / shivering, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, feeling unusually weak or fatigued, new loss of taste or smell, muscle pain, headache, runny or congested nose, or diarrhea)
No walk-up registration permitted for this course.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Garden for the Environment, 1590 7th Avenue, San Francisco, United States
USD 25.00 to USD 50.00