Grow Your Own Nutrient Dense Food
Sunday 6th August 9.30am to 12.30pm
Presenter: Carol Laing
Topics In this workshop
Re-mineralising and balancing nutrients in your soil
Intro to identifying mineral deficiencies and how to correct them
Why increasing organic matter and microbes in your soil are important
Using plants to improve your soil,
Intro to Tropical Perennial Vegetables
Workshops will be held on a permaculture property in Cairns.
COST: $30 includes morning tea, workshop notes, seeds/cuttings & fertiliser sample
Interested? contact me Carol Laing at – newsletter@permaculturecairns.org.au
My experience: Commercial vegetable grower for 6 years, plant nursery owner/operator for 10 Years. Study:- Certificate in Horticulture 1983, a two weeks Permaculture Design Certificate Course 1992, Microbe Course and Chromatography Course with Mas Humas 2012, Elaine Ingham’s online Microscope Course’ 2013, Graeme Sait’s 4 day Nutri tech Solutions, Certificate in Nutrition Farming 2014, and while attending National Biological Farming Conference 2016 I attended David Hardwick’s Workshop on Soils. Other Soil workshops I have attended are with Terrain, Northern Resource Management and FNQ Biodynamics. I have an extensive library on many subjects, but mostly on how to grow food using the biology and the many microbes in the soil.
Workshops are all conducted with
Permaculture. Ethics, Principles and Practices in mind.