Efficient Home Food Production: how to grow fabulous organic food with very little time.

10 - 12am

In this class we will cover the basics elements of efficient home growing including soil preparation and care, mulching, crop rotation, and effective staking. In addition, several techniques for small-scale season extension will be explained. We will have the opportunity to walk to a local garden demonstrating these techniques, so bring walking shoes for a ten-fifteen minute excursion.

Instructor:

Cecile Green

Bio:

Cecile Green began growing food at the age of seventeen and has continued doing so for the last 25 years, expanding her knowledge first through a degree in Community Supported Agriculture from theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduating, she participated in a small business program and started her own farm through the Intervale Foundation in Burlington, Vermont where she also initiated an apprenticeship program as a means of staffing her farm. After successfully selling her small farm in 1997, Cecile went on to deepen her farming experience through community-based food growing and offered her small business skills through a consulting service that she developed for startups. She then started a small business – Heart & Soul - focused on ecological landscaping and natural building which she has operated with her husband for 10 years in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As part of the ecological focus of her business, she has coached scores of neighbors, employees, and clients in the art and science of growing food and building with natural materials.

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