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FREE Ecovillage garden workshops for residents

With spring on the way, we are excited to announce the dates of our first FREE gardening workshops, available exclusively to Ecovillage residents. In these introductory workshops we will be delving into the establishment and management of organic food gardens for the home as residents get geared up to start ...

Large-scale, no-turn composting for multitudes of microbes

By Pam Gunnell, future Ecovillage resident Those of us at the Friday morning demonstration garden working bee last week were treated to a demonstration by Mark Tupman of how to make a Johnson-Su bioreactor composter. The name comes from the inventors of this method of making compost, Dr David Johnson, ...

Building healthy soil and establishing avocados

As always, it’s been very busy in the horticulture department this season at the Ecovillage. With the vineyard planted out, we turned our attention to the avocado orchard. First up, we sowed a protective summer cover crop of sunflowers, sorghum and cowpeas on the side of the mounds just in ...