Protected: Compost: Building the Soil Sponge

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Marianne Simon
Pamela Berstler
Last Update September 11, 2024
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Learning Objectives

1. The ‘soil party’ and the relationship between plants and soil
2. Different types of compost and how to make it
3. Sheet composting after turf removal
4. Alternative soil amendments

Material Includes

  • Video of Compost: Building the Soil Sponge
  • Additional Resources
  • Q/A

Target Audience

  • general public

Curriculum

3 Lessons1h

Video – Compost Building the Soil Sponge

Webinar discussing the role of compost in creating beautiful resilient gardens.
Video – Compost: Building the Soil Sponge1:04:23

Additional Resources

Here are some additional resources to learn more about compost and how you can create your own watershed wise gardens.

Q/A

Download this Q/A for additional information about composting.

Your Instructors

Marianne Simon

Instructor

5.0/5
14 Courses
1 Reviews
60 Students

Born to a family of artists, Marianne has spent her life exploring creativity in its many facets. In 1999 she discovered the world of landscaping and a new way of expressing herself. She received her degree in Landscape Architecture and founded her landscape company, Poetic Plantings, with the vision of creating gardens that would nurture the spirit and nourish the earth.

Today she works with G3, Green Gardens Group, managing 'groundbreaking' programs, teaching and spreading the word about watershed-wise landscaping, and doing all she can to shift the pendulum back towards a healthy planet.

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Pamela Berstler

CEO, G3 Green Gardens Group

5.0/5
10 Courses
1 Reviews
199 Students

Our very own force of nature, Pamela Berstler is a highly experienced landscape expert who co-founded and continues to manage G3, Green Gardens Group. G3 is an award-winning EPA WaterSenseTM Partner and Professional Certifying Organization that educates and certifies property owners, policymakers, and landscape professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada in irrigation and rainwater capture using the Watershed Approach to landscaping.

Pamela spent a decade working as a landscape contractor with her own bespoke design/build firm specializing in innovations for sustainable cities. She didn’t come to landscapes and agriculture through a direct route, as she first took a detour through a career in derivative securities trading and raising private equity for technology and media companies. Pamela is deeply committed to the reinvigoration of American entrepreneurship through regenerative land management and agriculture.

Pamela is a 2019 Climate Reality Leader and is the recipient of many awards including the National APLD Sustainability Award, EPA Certifying Professional Organization of the Year, and Garden Communicators Association Green Medal in Sustainability.

Pamela incubated a love of gardening turning 40-year-old compost on her grandfather's urban farm and with her hands in the soil cultivating her mother's beloved tomato patch. And while she once loved the fast live, she now is returning to her roots, sharing her passion for growing family farm economic value and rebuilding rural comunities. Pamela is happiest in a garden and in front of an audience talking about the power of gardens to heal the planet.

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Free
Level
Beginner
Duration 1 hour
Modules
3 lectures
Subject
Language
English

Material Includes

  • Video of Compost: Building the Soil Sponge
  • Additional Resources
  • Q/A
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