Virtual Workshop: Soil Ecology & Self-Renewing Fertitility

Wednesday, 10/12/2022

Virtual Workshop: Soil Ecology and Self-Renewing Fertility

with Dave Jacke
Ecological Designer, Author & Owner
of Dynamics Ecological Design

Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 • 7pm – 8:30pm

FREE

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The soil is a complex environment involving interactions between physical, chemical, geological, biological, and ecological forces. How does the soil work as a whole system?  In a world of specialists, this question is often not even on the radar screen. As fossil fuels become more expensive, so will conventional fertility sources increase in cost. We need to use our time, energy, resources, and knowledge to build toward long-term nutrient cycling and conservation, rather than constantly importing nutrients from far away.

Click above for details on Dave Jacke's Edible Forest Gardens books!


This talk examines the soil as an ecosystem with an eye toward creating long-term soil health and self-renewing fertility, the way natural forest ecosystems do. This systems perspective offers practical solution-directions useful to farmers, gardeners, landscapers, and restorationists for site assessment, site preparation, plant selection, planting techniques, and ecosystem management.
 



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ABOUT DAVE JACKE

Dave Jacke, primary author of the award-winning two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens.  He has studied ecology and design since the 1970s and has run Dynamics Ecological Design since 1984.  Dave has consulted on, designed, built, and planted landscapes, homes, farms, and communities in many parts of the U.S., as well as overseas, but mainly in the Northeast.  He holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies with a minor in Land Use Planning from Simon's Rock College (1980) and a Master of Arts in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design (1984).  He now homesteads an eagle’s flight from the Connecticut River in Montague, MA.

Check out interviews and articles on Dave and his work—

 

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