Ecolocity DC, a local Transition Towns and community sustainability group, is hosting two gardening workshops this upcoming week. Both of them are focused on ways that you can build good soil, therefore enabling you to grow great food.
The first is a “Composting 101″ workshop this Saturday, August 14, with Ed Bruske, “The Slow Cook.” As his website bio states: “A reporter for the Washington Post in a previous life, Ed Bruske now tends his “urban farm” about a mile from the White House in the District of Columbia. Ed believes in self-reliance, growing food close to home, and political freedom for the residents of the District of Columbia.” A founding member of DC Urban Gardeners, he teaches a variety of gardening, composting, and food-related workshops. He also writes entries for this blog!
Event: Composting 101 Workshop
Date: August 14, 2010, 3:00 PM
Location: Ed Bruske’s House, 13th and Euclid St. NW, Washington, DC (look for the garden!)
The second workshop, on August 17, is on lasagna gardening, a simplified version of composting that builds great soil. It’s most easily done over the winter, so we’re preparing a lot now for our partner, the Emergence Community Arts Collective. In addition to learning about this technique, we’ll also be creating signs explaining what we’re doing to visitors to the ECAC.
Event: Lasagna Gardening Workshop
Date: August 17, 2010, 7:00 PM
Location: Emergence Community Arts Collective, 733 Euclid Street Northwest, Washington DC
For information on either of these workshops, please email us at ecolocitydc@gmail.com or check out our events calendar.
Shannon Brescher Shea is an outreach organizer for Ecolocity DC.
