Days and Dates: Saturday and Sunday, November 17-18, 2012
Time: 9A sharp — 6P both days
Address: Private residence in Woodland Hills, CA. Out of
respect for the host, address will be released to registrants only.
Registration: $25 per person for the weekend.
Additional info: Deadline for online and snail mail
registration is Saturday, November 10th. Potluck supper on Saturday. We need an
accurate head count for snacks and beverages on Saturday and Sunday.
Feeling stuck with your garden project, maybe because you
have a lawn or a weedy eyesore you want to be rid of? Not sure how to prepare or feeling daunted by site preparation for a
low-water use landscape or an edible garden? Want to start off with a clean
slate without using poisons? How about suppressing most weed growth at the same
time? Would you like to save yourself multiple weekends of hard labor that
would be spent shoveling off the sod (or save yourself the expense of paying
for that service)?
Learn sheet mulching in this lecture/hands-on format
workshop. We’ll be talking about the what, how, and when of sheet mulching and
then we’ll put theory into practice.
To work well, sheet mulches
- need
to be tailored to your garden goals because a sheet mulch in preparation
for a garden of edibles is different from a sheet mulch for CA natives
- need
to be tailored to thwart the survival and propagation strategies of the
plants you don’t want
- are
time sensitive – it matters what time of the year they are used
- need
to be selectively applied because there are situations in which a
different technique will yield better results
- need
to be carefully applied around established plants you want to keep so that
you don’t harm or accidently kill them
We’ll be covering all of this during the workshop and
more.
As an exclusive bonus to attendees of this workshop, we
will also cover key principles behind ecologically intelligent garden design
and dry stack construction of raised garden beds with broken concrete (aka
urbanite). Sign up now because this is the last sheet mulching workshop that
Urban/Suburban Ecoliteracy will be offering in Southern CA. For more details
and to register, visit http://bit.ly/QZJo6x
Questions? E-mail questions@urban-suburban-ecoliteracy.com.