Organic Gardening with the Soil Food Web

Learn about the soil food web and how it works to deliver plants with nutrients. In this 2-day workshop, we will cover many topics that will help you to grow amazing, nutrient dense food for yourself, your family and your livestock.
This workshop is for beginners as well as advanced gardeners, lifestyle block owners and people interested in natural systems and their function.
Day 1
On the first day you will learn about the Soil Food Web and its members. We will discuss its functions and what disrupts it. You will learn about plant succession, nutrient pools in soils, nutrient cycling with the soil food web and the importance of mycorrhizal fungi. Will will discuss photosynthesis, the nitrogen cycle and the food exchange by plants and the soil microbes.
Then we will do some practical applications in the garden like mulching, planting seedlings, worm farming and bokashi composting.
Day 2
The second day is very practical and hands-on. We will build a therm...