Tag: Victoria

From backyard growing to community and boulevard gardening, ensuring your soil is healthy is the first step to any urban agriculture project Soils can build up heavy metals and other pollutants over time from a range of sources — including industry, transportation, construction materials, and unsustainable land use practices. The first step to any urban…

Learn the main steps used to cultivate mushrooms at home using low tech methods. Workshop Description: In this workshop students will learn the main steps used in cultivating mushrooms at home using low tech methods. The lecture will include basic fungal biology, information on tools needed to grow mushrooms, making liquid culture, grain spawn and…

Learn how to build rich soil where there was none before using a simple and effective technique called sheet mulching. In situ composting, or soil building in the form of Sheet Mulching is a fast process of building fertile soil where there isn’t any, converting lawn landscapes into active growing gardens, or simply adding more…

Learn a breadth of advanced composting methods including hot composting, compost tea, and in-situ composting. This workshop aims to broaden the scope of participants’ knowledge of composting methods and will cover methods of composting that require more work and attention. Topics covered will include hot composting to produce big quantities of nutrient rich, living compost…

Learn how to set up and maintain a worm compost bin, sometimes called a vermicompost, and make high quality compost. Everything you need to know about starting up and maintaining a worm bin compost system, also known as vermicomposting. Perfect for small space composting and apartment living, or in addition to other composting systems you…

Learn to make your own backyard compost- a living soil amendment rich in nutrients and micro-organisms! What is the recipe for compost success and why does composting matter? This workshop will explore the answers to these questions, and will offer instructions on what it takes to produce an amendment for your garden that is rich…

Learn simple techniques for analyzing your soil quality through this hands on workshop

Pruning fruit trees in the summer? That’s right! It can be done…and arborist Gordon Mackay will show you how in this introduction to the wonders of summer pruning for fruit trees. While most pruning happens in the winter, for backyard fruit trees, summer pruning provides some important advantages to consider. Damage repair, size control, disease management, enhancing…

If you are a new gardener, new to Victoria or just want to brush up on your plant knowledge, this is a great place to get started. This is a monthly class where participants will be introduced to 20 new plants which fit with our local climate. Plants are selected for our local growing conditions…