Sustainable farming workshop using organic methods
Published 10:44 am Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Workshop held April 13-14
LEAP Farm and Thunder Ridge Farm of Polk County will offer a sustainable farming workshop for the home gardener and the market grower Friday and Saturday, April 13 and 14 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. each day.
Lee Mink of LEAP Farm in Mill Spring and Lynn Ronzello of Thunder Ridge Farm in Green Creek will be the instructors for the workshop. The focus will be on a high-yield system of growing using organic methods. Some of the topics will include:
• Bed making
• Composting
• Soil amendments
• Soil blocks
• What and when to plant
• Irrigation
• Row covers
• Seed saving