Building Soil in the Garden with Sharon Gensler (Resilient Garden Series)

Описание: Do you want to have healthy soil, eat nutritious food and sequester carbon? We can do it all! Join us for another event from our Resilient Garden Series. Long time no-till gardener, Sharon Gensler presents garden practices that minimize soil disturbance, maintain living plant cover and utilize mulch as the key techniques you can easily employ to achieve all these goals in your garden.

Learn more about:

*Successful reduced tillage methods
*How to use cover crops in the garden
*Why mulching is so important, and how to do it right

Instructor:

Sharon Gensler is an organic gardener, homesteader and educator. For over 40 years she has grown and preserved the bulk of the vegetables and fruit for her family. She has employed healthy soils-building practices including no-till techniques and has successfully devised ways to incorporate small-scale cover cropping into a garden setting.

Learn more about NOFA/Mass and become a member at http://www.nofamass.org​

Thanks to our sponsors:

Ward's Nursery
https://wardsnursery.com​

Chelsea Green
https://www.chelseagreen.com​

Neptune's Harvest
https://www.neptunesharvest.com

Our Sponsors at Chelsea Green recommend the following titles for more information, enter code PWEB35 at check-out to receive a special NOFA/Mass Resilient Garden Series discount on your next print book purchase:

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture: Pesticide-Free Methods for Restoring Soil and Growing Nutrient-Rich, High-Yielding Crops by Bryan O’Hara

Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening: Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs by Will Bonsall

The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach by Ben Falk

The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables: More In-Depth Lean Techniques for Efficient Organic Production by Ben Hartman

More Links of Interest:

Here is a link to Sharon's notes and list of resources:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/...

Broadfork Recommendations:
https://www.treadlitebroadforks.com/
https://meadowcreature.com/
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-sup...

Garden Sickle from Oesco Orchard Supply in Conway MA:
https://www.oescoinc.com/hand-tools/s...

For assistance with your soil testing, NOFA/Mass Soil Technical Assistance Program:
https://www.nofamass.org/soil-technic...

Continue the conversation by joining and asking questions in the NOFA/Mass Gardener's email Listserv:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/nof...

Read The Carbon Sequestering Garden:
https://www.nofamass.org/wp-content/u...

Read the Chat from the event:
https://nofamassorg-my.sharepoint.com...

Follow up with our presenter via email:
Sharon Gensler - [email protected]

Recorded on March 23, 2021