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How to Design Your Food Forest With an Intro to Sheetmulching

Submitted by Victoria2 on Tue, 09/12/2023 - 08:11
Victoria
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This in-person event is a fantastic opportunity to learn about food forestry, how to design using our farms plan as an example, and how to convert your landscape including methods for sheetmulching and how to effectively plant into sheetmulch.

Come get your hands dirty, connect with like-minded people, and be a part of installing a future food forest!
You'll leave with experience, resources, and feeling empowered to get started on your own edible forest garden.

10:00am - Food Forest Design & Demonstration (1.5 hour)

- Discuss basic design process
- How to sheetmulch with success
- Food forest plant selection & planting
- Material sourcing & estimation
- How to implement your plan

11:30am - Hands-on Work Party

- Sheetmulching (how to convert grass to garden)
- Path and plant layout
- Planting into sheetmulch & fertilization
 

1:30 pm - Free Pizza Lunch

- Provided for those that help out!
- Vegetarian options available

What to Bring:
- Weather-appropriate work clothes & gloves
- Favourite shovel, rake and/or wheelbarrow (optional)
- We will also provide tools for those who don’t have any


Plant sales will be open after 11:30am - Fall is THE BEST time to plant perennials and we have lots available still!

Follow the link below for more details:

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Food Forestry Workshop & Work Party (Free)

Gardening event in Victoria, BC, Canada by Edible Landscapes Design on Saturday, September 16 2023

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Located at Edible Plant Source
Input Edible Plant Source into Google maps for accurate directions

Please call 250 538 2380 for more info - Meagan

*Nursery Open by Appointment only
weekdays after 4pm and weekends*

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390 Brookleigh Rd, Victoria, BC, Canada

250 538 2380

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390 Brookleigh Rd