Name: Soil Health for Gardeners
Start: 2025-03-22T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-22T16:00:00-04:00
Location: The North Carolina Arboretum

This practical, hands-on course will teach you how to conduct simple soil tests using tools you can find in your kitchen.
About this Event

Soil Health for Gardeners

with Laura Lengnick

ON-SITE | Saturday, March 22 | 1 - 4 pm

Blue Ridge EcoGardener - Core

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 will teach you how to conduct simple soil tests using tools you can find in your kitchen to monitor the health of your soil. Participants can bring a soil sample from their garden to test in this class.

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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