Workshop 4: Preparing the Soil and Planting Out

Mar 7, 2019 | Workshops

Saturday 27th April 2019 | 9am to 12 noon | Endeavour Foundation Building, 4 Warner Street, Manunda

Topics covered in this workshop

  • Incorporate organic matter, compost, manures and fertilizer as necessary
  • Adjust pH if necessary
  • Planting out seedlings and plants from Propagation workshop
  • Ongoing maintenance and Pest control Notes.

This will be a practical workshop. Bring hat, closed in shoes and gloves

Workshop Cost: $30 for Permaculture Members, $35 for non-members
Permaculture membership Singles $20 Families $30.

You can pay on the day, it’s easier that way.

All materials and Morning tea included in cost

YOU MUST REGISTER AT:-  info@permaculturecairns.org.au

Tutor – Carol Laing’s 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 in the soil. I have a long-established Permaculture garden with lots of tropical perennial vegetable plants.