Join us at the beautiful Tryon Creek Nature Center to learn how to make biochar. We will demonstrate how to create biochar easily in your backyard or fire pit! We will share practical techniques for using biochar to enhance your garden, build soil, save water and sequester carbon. We will also discuss how biochar is being used in conservation and bioremediation of natural systems.

Free Workshop sponsored by Friends of Tryon Creek

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GARDENING WITH MUSHROOMS + MICROBES WORKSHOP

DATE: April 22nd, 2023

TIME: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Join us in the Pope Valley for a hands-on mushroom + microbe cultivation workshop. In this class, we will learn how to partner with mycelium + microbes to grow beautiful gardens and healthy soil. We will discuss the wonders of the soil food web and the power of probiotics and fermentation in gardening. We will demonstrate the many practical and exciting ways to introduce fungi + microbes into your garden to help you grow nutrient-dense food + medicine.

Together, we will build outdoor mushroom beds and pathways on the Suscol Intertribal land. These mushroom gardens that we build together will produce amazing edible mushrooms for years to come! Participants will leave with the skills needed to start integrating the intelligence of the mushrooms and microbes into their own gardens. Everyone will take home some of our farm-made, microbial-fungal compost tea blend.

Workshop proceeds will be shared with Suscol Intertribal Council for the development of the “Suscol House” and property for the continuation of educational programs in the Napa Valley.

LOCATION: Suscol Intertribal Council property in Napa, CA. Address provided to registered partcipants via email.

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Join us in Covelo, CA at the Library Commons Patio for a free community workshop! Learn about the microbe mudballs on a mission to restore our water and earth. We will roll microbe mudballs together using Covelo soil and discuss the practical uses of bokashi mudballs for bioremediation, gardening, farming and conservation. All ages are welcome!

EM - PARTNERING WITH MICROBES WORKSHOP

DATE: April 1st, 2023

TIME: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join us on Wapato Island (Sauvie Island) to learn about the ways we can partner with microbes to heal our Earth. We will discuss bioremediation of land and water and the probiotic power of working with EM liquid cultures and microbial-fungal compost teas. We will demonstrate how to brew, grow, extend and apply custom compost teas for gardening, farming and restoration projects. In this hands-on workshop, we will share recipes and brew compost tea together for vegetative and bloom cycles proven to increase terpene profiles. Participants will take home some of our farm-made compost tea blend.

LOCATION: Topaz Farm on Wapato Island (Sauvie Island) or online via Zoom.

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BOKASHI BALL MAKING WORKSHOP

DATE: March 18th, 2023

TIME: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join us on Wapato Island (Sauvie Island) to learn about the little microbe mudballs on a mission to clean and restore our water and Earth! Bokashi balls, or fermented mudballs, have been demonstrated to have a wide variety of regenerative applications, working as catalysts for restoring our environment by cleaning toxic waterways, improving soil health and supporting the expansion of existing mycelial networks. These mudballs have been successfully used around the world in bioremediation projects. We are honored to share this simple and efficient way of partnering with microbes and fungi with humans who want to clean soil and water. In this hands-on workshop, will will make microbe mudballs together, share recipes and discuss their practical uses in gardening, farming and restoration projects. Participants will take home a pound of fermented mudballs.

LOCATION: Wapato Island (Sauvie Island). Address will be provided to participants via email.

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BIOCHAR + FUEL REDUCTION WORKSHOP

DATE: March 11th, 2023

TIME: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join us on Wapato Island (Sauvie Island) to learn about biochar and fuel reduction. The absence of controlled fires traditionally used in indigenous land management practices has led to increasing occurrence and severity of wildfires in our bioregion. Working wisely with fire has many regenerative applications that are being researched and implemented globally. In this workshop, participants will learn how to convert biomass and burn piles into biochar soil amendments. We will discuss how to practically implement biochar’s diverse uses from small-scale garden projects, to farming applications, to large-scale restoration and land management. Participants will take home a pound of biochar.

LOCATION: Wapato Island (Sauvie Island). Address will be provided to participants via email.

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BOKASHI COMPOSTING WORKSHOP

DATE: March 4th, 2023

TIME: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join us on Wapato Island (Sauvie Island) to learn about bokashi composting. We will discuss the long history and many uses of bokashi composting, also known as fermented composting. In this hands-on workshop, we will make bokashi together, share recipes for bokashi blends and compost teas, and learn how to practically apply bokashi in composting, gardening, farming and restoration projects. Participants will take home a pound of bokashi.

LOCATION: Wapato Island (Sauvie Island). Address will be provided to participants via email.

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